In Popular Culture
In Michael Crichton's novel State of Fear, an eco-terrorist group uses blue-ringed octopuses as a difficult-to-detect assassination technique, by placing an octopus kept in a plastic bag full of water on their victims and allowing the octopus to bite, killing the victim a few minutes later. Several victims of the group are dispatched in this way.
In the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy, Bond is seduced by Magda, who has a blue-ringed octopus tattoo symbolizing her alliance with Octopussy's Octopus cult.
The anime One Piece features Hyouzou, a blue-ringed octopus Fish-Man pirate who uses poison in addition to his swordsmanship in its Fishman Island arc.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)