I'm so happy that there's love for Karl on the sift.

Whether Karl is real or not is still up for debate on www.pilkipedia.co.uk which is pretty much the premier site to talk about the squozen orange-headed one.

A lot of people insist that he's 100% genuine, some say that his persona has changed a bit as time went by, almost like he's got slower and stupider. Some people claim that this is because he's opened more as ricky makes him feel more comfortable about his own persona.

Personally, i think during the early years when they got together on XFM, Mr. Dilkington was 100% genuine, but i think as time went by, he began to ham it up to make it appear funnier. I don't think Ricky or Steve cajole/cajoled him into doing that, i just think he realised why he was funny. I think nowadays both Ricky and Steve realise that the shaven-chimp-coconut-face is hamming it up, but no one minds.

I wouldn't say he's acting or pretending to be stupid, i'd just say that he adds 20% stupidity onto his already whopping stupidity.

But also, i feel he's far funnier during the early years of XFM before he started to ham it up a bit.

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"My super shell doesn't scare you? Ok, how about I just show my gine."


Everyone is amazed by the use of a coconut shell, but no one finds it amazing that it walks like a freaking land animal while carrying its house?!

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No coconuts in Byron Bay Australia- too cold for them to form. Though they do have coconut palms. It is nice all year round though.

Between this and the coconut karate chopping ninja, I'm beginning to have more faith that sheer stupidity is not exclusive to us Americans.

"Guys? Guys? Where did you go? My coconut costume isn't that bad is it? Guys? Hello?"

it's about an average sized octopus and an average sized coconut.
Though, there is a huge range of sized variation between octopuses... not so much coconuts.

Is that a really large coconut, or a really small octopus?

>> ^therealblankman:
Can anyone tell me what is the air-speed velocity of a small octopus carrying a coconut?


African small octopus or European?

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>> ^Tyrsis:
Isn't this the proof that god exists? As only a divine being could ever create something that allows the octopus to fit perfectly into it, and protect itself like that!
Oh holiest of tentacle protector, the octopi believe!


This comment needs to have 15 votes, it's a brilliant piece of satire.

Don't you see, sifters? He's pointing out that we're like the octopus.. advanced toolmakers and users, who look at our own tools and go "this was clearly MADE for me!" If no one else appreciated the comment, i did. Excellent work.

>> ^dag:
Octopus are awesome. If I was forced to have sex with any non-human creature - I would now choose the octopus. (used to be big cat)


Dude, that's so wrong. Like on 2 or 3 different levels.

I mean, the cat, the octopus I can TOTALLY understand.

>> ^notarobot:
I like the end when the octopus hijacks the camera to film a documentary about hairless beach-apes using artificial flippers to swim... I'm sure that he thought only octopi used tools!


It's "octopodes" if you're good a Greek

He lives in a coconut under the sea...

Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus
I don't know about the two shell thing, but I've seen octopuses in single coconut shells before.
Here is the paper:
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%2809%2901914-9

The "tool use" argument hinges on the definition including items that are carried for use later on being tools. This is why the authors claim that hermit crabs aren't using tools.. because their shells always afford some protection. Of course, octopuses carry rocks to their dens and use them as doors... as do some crustaceans. It's a neat behaviour, but "tool use" comes off as kind of gimmicky.