Extropodes,
Dan, Gene, and Robert, for reasons that escape me, have seen fit to devote a spot of bandwidth to the--
WHAT'S YOUR NAME? "I DON'T KNOW WHAT MY NAME IS."
--"uplifting" (is that the same as uploading?) of marine cephalopod mollusks.
First, I would like to ask Daniel--though not without trepidation--what prompted the original question? The putative superior intelligence of octopi, perhaps?
And then, taking a page from Emlyn's book, I undertake
>Just to jump in and be an unproductive nit-picker... As I understand it,
squids
>squid (skwîd) noun
>
>Any of various marine cephalopod mollusks of the genus Loligo and related
genera, having a >usually elongated body, ten arms surrounding the mouth, a
vestigial internal shell, and a pair of >triangular or rounded fins.
have ten tentacles, which should make them decapodes, (though I'm still wondering what that "e" is doing in there.)
Now, all-you-can-eat shrimp, and ten arms surrounding my mouth, THAT'S uplifting.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it." Ray Charles