"Lunch-Tuesday": chicken parmesan, linguine with (tomato sauce, butter, red pepper flakes) and garlic bread.

First it looked yummie. Then I remembered the movie Alien and covered my mouth and ran away screaming before it hatched.

Just kidding! It still looks delicious.

Hoo boy, that cracked me up. Good thing there's no one else in my office right now.

If you chew it up enough it won't hatch. At least that's what I heard.

That's what they told us when we were eating raw octopus (in Korea IIRC). You have to bite down real hard on the suckers to temporarily numb the nerve, otherwise the suckers grab onto the inside of your mouth.

I asked what kept the suckers idle after you swallowed but before digestion provided a permanent solution -- there was some discussion but no consensus on the answer, so there was a lot of chewing.

Let me go retch.

"Here, try some raw Octopus...."

"What if the thing is still alive in my stomache?"

"Well, there's a sucker born every minute...."

Kill it, bread it, deep-fry it, squeeze a lemon wedge on it and sprinkle some salt on it and I'm in! Dipping sauces are always a bonus.

Well, *that* inspired a disturbing picture. Is there some place I can get my brain wiped ?

What, you don't have one of those pens from Men in Black?