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October 5, 2007

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Manhole Cover

Sixth one down; only in Japan.

Posted on October 5, 2007 at 4:08 PM • 6 Comments • View Blog Reactions

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the whole series is amazing.

Posted by: Anonymous at October 5, 2007 5:21 PM

Some are quite pretty really. It would have been nice to see translations of the Japanese; your squid has transliterated into roman characters word, which I'm sure means "squid". (or "Good to eat!"?)

Posted by: real4 at October 5, 2007 5:45 PM

It looks like the hiragana would be transliterated as "osui", which would be sewage. Hakodate is a city in Hokkaido, probably known for their squid.

Posted by: budapest at October 5, 2007 6:07 PM

Your comment inspired me to post my own picture of a manhole cover from outside the Google complex. See http://www.sigcrap.org/

Posted by: Kevin McCurley at October 6, 2007 11:50 AM

@Kevin
Nice picture.

I'm not a sigcrap member, and with no apparent way to register, so I couldn't post a comment on your site. You have an amusing typo in your Koblitz item. In the 3rd paragraph, you wrote "probably secure" (in quotes), yet elsewhere in the article you wrote "provably secure". What a difference a single displaced keypress makes (B beside V on QWERTY keyboards).

Posted by: Anonymous at October 7, 2007 12:08 AM

I know what is going on here. Bruce is trying to prepare the world for the return of the great old ones.

By getting us used to the sight of squid he is hoping that we won't be alarmed when Cthulhu rises from the deep and starts eating our brains.

I'm on to you laddie!

ia ia cthulhu ptaghn!

Posted by: The squid conspiracy. at October 8, 2007 3:13 AM