Octopodes* A simple google search would educate you properly, fucknuts.....

Except 'octopus' is a Greek word, and the plural should be 'octopodes'.

that's kinda how languages work...
you ever heard old english? it's the "original" english, but people started saying stuff wrong or differently, and the language changed.

Plus, look at your own argument:

"People accepted octopi as the correct word, so now I'm mad when people accept octopuses as the correct word instead."

A.) That's how languages work. People talk, languages change based on how people start talking. that's WHY we don't speak old english anymore, so if you want to be that uptight about it, I expect you to go learn old english and abandon modern English entirely, since that's the original accepted version of all our words, and therefore in your terms, the "right" version

B.) The word is Greek, so the plural form should be "Octopuses" anyway.

C.) Since both forms are in the dictionary, as well as octopodes, they're all technically correct... wow, it's almost like sometimes languages have different words for the same thing?!? Plus, a cursory google search tells us that all three words have existed in English for about the same amount of time, so your argument of "Original root" isn't even right, since they all were invented together.

Also, just real quick, let's look at "With brevity being the single category to judge a potential replacement with difference in neither denotation nor connotation, "octopuses" is a failure as a replacement."... that's just stupid... if you're replacing a word with a new word, there's ALWAYS no difference in denotation or connotation, since the new word isn't yet a word... there is, however, the subject of the NORMALITY of the word. For example, by your logic, we should replace the plural form of dictionary (dictionaries) with dictionarys, because it's slightly shorter. However, by EVERYBODY ELSE'S LOGIC, that's stupid, because the rule is change y to ie, so that's what we do.

tl;dr: In trying to make an argument, you pulled things out of your ass that were completely unnecessary, because nobody cares that much, and still managed to be wrong. It's only 5 minutes to read wikipedia, and even shorter to just look at the first Google links. With facts being the single category to judge a potential rant with neither interesting topic nor relevant place to post, your argument is a failure as a rant

Steve, please don't tell me I know you. I swear I've heard this exact rant before and it shames me to see you pull this stunt in public.
Come home Steve, Jacob and I are very worried about you.

So... Youre completely incorrect so I'll assume this is a joke.
"if it's brown lay down, if it's black fight back"
Black bears will avoid humans and are easily spooked by noise and commotion. They are timid and really only ever get aggressive if cubs are involved.. My grandmothers west highland terrier scared a black bear away by yapping at it.
Grizzly bears are best dealt with by playing dead if you're attacked. They are extremely territorial and have been known to hunt humans. Grizzly bears have been found before with bullet wounds on them and human flesh contents in their stomach.
Grizzly bears also grow to be much much larger than black bears.

Maybe you just got the two mixed up?

That's funny. Just last week a black bear broke into my house, stole my xbox, and gave me his phone number.

i thought black bears just flee and climb up trees

The forums are still up too, not that it makes a difference.

So the person just buggered off with no warning? what a dick...

how did it pepsi? unpaid server costs? DoS?

The forums are still up too, not that it makes a difference.

So the person just buggered off with no warning? what a dick...

Im kind of mad that it needs to be explained. I love me some bullet chuckers but god damn are people stupid.

it's a fact

>psuedo

Actually you're a little off the mark when talking about the whippet.
The whippet is not a cross between the Italian greyhound and the standard Greyhound. Smaller Whippet-like sighthounds have been around for hundreds (though some consider it may be thousands) of years with stronger records of their existence appearing around the middle ages. However, the modern concept of pure breeding wasn't introduced until the 1800s and Italian Greyhounds and Whippets were thought to still be loosely interbred into the 1900s before the two were distinguished as separate breeds (however no historical mention of the larger greyhound being in the blend).
They then were bred with terriers to increase their tenacity and became popular in England as the "Poor man's greyhound" as the larger Greyhounds (which had long been only permitted to be owned, hunted with and raced by nobles and upper class). The common man used them instead to race in Great Britain. They were "Rag Racers", men baiting them with rabbit skins in straight-line racing for betting purposes. This is what birthed the origins of today's lure coursing competitions.

I also had a whippet some years back.

Don't forget the ceramic kind

As one faggot on the internet once wrote:
"It doesn't count if she's an elf."

I assume it works for half elves as well.