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Re: WHAT?????????????? LOL ,,The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

By: capt_nemo in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (0)
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Well then, there ya have it. With a website, pictures and all haaaaaaaaaaaa




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Re: WHAT?????????????? LOL ,,The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
By: Zimbler0 in POPE 5
Mon, 09 Jul 18 4:40 AM 		Msg. 03744 of 62138

Pacific Northwest tree octopus

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an Internet hoax created in 1998 by Lyle Zapato.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus

This fictitious endangered species of cephalopod was given the Latin name "Octopus paxarbolis" (the species name being coined from Latin pax, the root of Pacific, and Spanish arbol meaning "tree"). It was purportedly able to live both on land and in water, and was said to live in the Olympic National Forest and nearby rivers, spawning in water where its eggs are laid. Its major predator was said to be the Sasquatch.The Pacific Northwest tree octopus website is among a number of sites commonly used in Internet literacy classes in schools, although it was not created for that purpose.

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(Article does go on - with stories about how some
supposedly 'internet educated' kids thought the site
was reliable information. Zim.)

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