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.
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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.
Comments
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.
Posted by: Eric James Stone | October 9, 2003 08:40 AM
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
Posted by: keeg | October 9, 2003 01:40 PM
I was thinking King Kong vs Tranzor Z: monkey vs robot. Oh yeah.
Posted by: mighty josh | October 9, 2003 03:43 PM
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.
Posted by: dave | October 10, 2003 12:36 AM
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.
Posted by: john | October 10, 2003 10:51 AM
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.
Posted by: dave | October 10, 2003 11:48 AM
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.
Posted by: Kerry | October 10, 2003 12:14 PM
Nothing known to man has ever, or will ever, stand a chance against a London bus!
Posted by: sue | October 10, 2003 06:17 PM
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….”.
Posted by: joe | October 11, 2003 09:14 PM
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.
Posted by: dave | October 15, 2003 02:07 PM
Titanic Squid … . the movie
Posted by: martin | October 19, 2003 09:13 PM
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.
Posted by: john | October 22, 2003 10:22 PM
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.
Posted by: martin | October 28, 2003 12:14 PM
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
Posted by: Josh | October 28, 2003 12:30 PM
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”
Posted by: dave | October 29, 2003 01:50 AM
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].
Posted by: Paul | May 23, 2004 08:01 PM
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].
Posted by: Paul | May 23, 2004 08:01 PM