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If I Had My Own Colosseum…
I would make the squid fight the London bus (Or maybe 3 polar bears, I haven't decided yet).
I stole this from this bbc article.
Kudos to the graphic designer.
I would make the squid fight the London bus (Or maybe 3 polar bears, I haven't decided yet).
I stole this from this bbc article.
Kudos to the graphic designer.
October 9th, 2003 - 08:40
I’ll put five quid on the bus.
The graphic reminds me of a really cool site called Starship Dimensions. (http://www.merzo.net/) It allows you to compare the sizes of various science fiction spaceships to each other and to real things such as famous buildings. It even lets you (in IE, at least) drag the items around so you can put them next to each other.
October 9th, 2003 - 13:40
The new battle of the new century, Godzilla vs the Collosal Squid!
*disclaimer-only featured in the depths of the antarctic ocean at 2000-2500 feet depending on ticket availability
October 9th, 2003 - 15:43
I was thinking King Kong vs Tranzor Z: monkey vs robot. Oh yeah.
October 10th, 2003 - 00:36
I’m thinking more about a sort of sit-com like the Cosbies meets that show with Erkl (goof ball with the glasses). The bus would be Erkl, The sperm whale would be Dr. Huckstable, and the squids would be everything else. At the end of each show they all get together and make a funky rap about the moral that each of them learned for the day.
October 10th, 2003 - 10:51
I think making the london bus fight colossal is totally unfair. Completely out of his weight class, not to mention the reach disadvantage.
3 polar bears seems fair – the winner gets to eat the loser as well.
October 10th, 2003 - 11:48
Apparently this thing has huge clubs with swivel hooks at the end of its tentacles. I take the collosal in the deep water, but if you put the three bears driving the bus on land, smashing into the collosal, then getting out and mauling it, I take the bus driving bears. If the sperm whale could grow some alligator like legs, it would be really awesome.
October 10th, 2003 - 12:14
What has not been addressed is in what environment would the match be held? In the water my money would be on the gang on evil penguins. They do wicked damage with their beaks and tiny little switchblades.
October 10th, 2003 - 18:17
Nothing known to man has ever, or will ever, stand a chance against a London bus!
October 11th, 2003 - 21:14
what are they going to do if they discover an even larger squid? They have the giant, they have the colassal, what is left? It will be like ordering a soda at the movies. “Giant is Small, Colassal is medium….”.
October 15th, 2003 - 14:07
Joe,
They will call it the Super Ultra Mega Collosal Squid. Then the next bigger would be the Super Duper Ultra Mega Collosal etc etc. Or maybe it would be called Biggie Size Collosal Squid.
October 19th, 2003 - 21:13
Titanic Squid . . . . the movie
October 22nd, 2003 - 22:22
I know eric said he’d put 5 quid on the bus, i don’t think that would help… but I would put 5 squid on the bus. Imagine, it could spark a whole new era of detente – squids and busses living together in harmony.
October 28th, 2003 - 12:14
I just want a graphic that shows the size and weight difference between a giant squid, sperm whale, and T-Rex. I think that if a London Bus came upon the “Bad Day on the High Sea” I would put 5 quid on the bus sinking like . . . . .well a bus in the middle of the Ocean.
October 28th, 2003 - 12:30
Ahh Martin, good point. I had forgotten all about that. Here is a link to a picture of that battle. http://www.brandonbird.com/highsea.html
October 29th, 2003 - 01:50
Man, that really was a bad day on the high seas. It’s one thing to have your collosal tentacles full with a sperm whale, it’s an entirely different thing to couple the situation with an angry T-Rex. I don’t know about you, but if I was this collosal, I would be more than a little frustrated with that T-Rex.
“One at a time please”
May 23rd, 2004 - 20:01
The sperm whale would kick the collosal squid’s butt because it can focus it’s sonar noises into a narrow area to stun it then rip it to shreds [plus the sperm whale has a bigger brain and would outwit the stupid squid].
May 23rd, 2004 - 20:01
The sperm whale would kick the collosal squid’s butt because it can focus it’s sonar noises into a narrow area to stun it then rip it to shreds [plus the sperm whale has a bigger brain and would outwit the stupid squid].