Cool link. I hadn't looked at "Strange Maps" for a while, thanks for reminding me of that site.
Non map related "personification as a sinister octopus", 1892:
Caricature of notorious New Orleans prostitute Emma Johnson from the New Orleans "Mascot". Or maybe it should be categorized as the earliest known US assimilation of the Japanese tradition of Tentacle Pr0n.
Huh. And here I only noticed one example. Perhaps my brain assumed the other legs were on the other side of the world/land mass and out of my line of vision.
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Date: 2011-07-09 02:46 am (UTC)I aspire someday to be personified as a sinister octopus
Date: 2011-07-09 04:14 am (UTC)Non map related "personification as a sinister octopus", 1892:
Caricature of notorious New Orleans prostitute Emma Johnson from the New Orleans "Mascot". Or maybe it should be categorized as the earliest known US assimilation of the Japanese tradition of Tentacle Pr0n.
Re: I aspire someday to be personified as a sinister octopus
Date: 2011-07-09 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-10 02:42 am (UTC)I'm not down with the 6-legged octopus in that one poster. It ain't right.
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Date: 2011-07-11 11:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-11 11:48 am (UTC)Still, I ain't fer it, I'm agin' it.