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A BP team operating an ROV at an oil well off the coast of Angola has spotted a deep-sea creature with an uncanny resemblance to Pastafarian deity the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Captured at a depth of 1,325 metres, the beast does indeed appear to sport noodly appendages. Once the footage arrived at the office of Daniel Jones …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    BFD.

    We have those in the public pools here.

    1. hplasm
      Happy

      Re: BFD.

      "We have those in the public pools here."

      I think you call them 'churches'...

      Also - Yarr!

  2. Mark 85

    They think they know what it is...

    ...but can they really be sure? What if they are wrong? I for one welcome His Noodly Goodness.

    1. werdsmith Silver badge

      Re: They think they know what it is...

      And have they tried cooking and eating it? Possibly highly nutritious.

  3. Baskitcaise
    Happy

    at first I laughed until

    I watched the video and then I thought "What a lot we still do not know"

    But there again it is reasonably early on Friday and not enough caffeine yet :-)

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: at first I laughed until

      "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

  4. msknight
    Coat

    Of all the deities that would prove to actually be real ...

    ... it would HAVE to be the bloody atheists deity, wouldn't it!

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Now that it has been recognised - it will grow to an enormous size and power.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        "[...] it will grow to an enormous size and power."

        Disappointed that the reference was not more appreciated. You'll get roasted in a brass tortoise for that.

    2. run_dmc

      Re: Atheists deity

      'Aetheists deity' is a bit of a contradiction. Aetheists don't believe in His Noodly Goodness unless the see a photo...

  5. P. Lee
    Facepalm

    For years they were serving him incorrectly

    Cold water, NOT hot water!

    1. msknight

      Re: For years they were serving him incorrectly

      AND they should put salt in it ... NOT olive oil.

      1. John G Imrie
        Joke

        Re: For years they were serving him incorrectly

        Heretic. Burn the Heretic.

        Oh and Splitters!

        1. Chika
          Trollface

          Re: For years they were serving him incorrectly

          Oh give it a br...

          ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    That's just plain silly everyone knows spaghetti grows on trees.

  7. ScottAS2
    Facepalm

    Heretics!

    That's not the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it's his aquatic cousin, the Swimming Spaghetti Monster.

    1. codejunky Silver badge

      Re: Heretics!

      Is that the one who rules the depths of the underworld? Where the sole's go?

      1. AndrueC Silver badge
        Joke

        Re: Heretics!

        Is that the one who rules the depths of the underworld? Where the sole's go?

        My soles go on my feet :D

        1. psychonaut

          Re: Heretics!

          no no, wrong god. Nike takes care of the sole's in the underworld. He recently bought out Reebok in a tense and universe spanning stealth leverage move. you can read about it in the hallowed tombe "Goldmann Sachs and the management consultants letter to the apostles"

          1. psychonaut

            Re: Heretics!

            oops...i should have checked first...Nike is of course female. no offence your worthyness-ess

      2. Mark 85

        Re: Heretics!

        Where the sole's go?

        Filleted and then sautéed gently in butter.

    2. phear46

      Re: Heretics!

      Swimming? Surely floating,so we can keep the FSM abbreviation?

      1. Sir Runcible Spoon

        Re: Heretics!

        I noticed his noodly-appendageness had some bodyguards along (a few eels - not sure who his enemies are at that depth though)

  8. Grikath

    It depends..

    Have they checked for ruins of the Eldritch variety in the vicinity? Could be a baby Shoggoth..

    1. DrBobK

      Re: It depends..

      Is it saying "Tekeli-li" in a cute high-pitched baby shoggoth voice?

  9. WylieCoyoteUK
    Devil

    blaspemy!

    As noted, this is not his holy noodlyness, for a start, everyone knows he exists only in holy Marinara sauce.

    There is also a distinct lack of meatballs.

    Worshippers of a false god should be subjected to death by the holy knife and fork.

    1. GitMeMyShootinIrons
      Happy

      Re: blaspemy!

      Maybe he's hiding his meatballs. I mean, I tend to do the same. The public tend to frown on such public exposure and the police tend to take a dim view too - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/naked-man-tasered-after-running-6233271

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    1. Sir Runcible Spoon
      Coat

      Re: They call it an ROV.

      So who's the midgit [sic]?

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    2. Chika
      Angel

      Re: They call it an ROV.

      "What the world needs now is rov, sweet rov..."

  11. Fink-Nottle

    > Jones’s colleague Philip Pugh then nailed the creature as probably Bathyphysa conifera.

    Barney McGrew concurred, citing an article in Nature by Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.

    1. hplasm
      Happy

      "Jones’s colleague Philip Pugh then nailed the creature..."

      Blasphemy!

      1. Sir Runcible Spoon

        Re: "Jones’s colleague Philip Pugh then nailed the creature..."

        Hugh Jones? nice one :)

        1. Chika

          Re: "Jones’s colleague Philip Pugh then nailed the creature..."

          Huge what now?

    2. Rol

      And, of course, when Bathyphysa goes to sleep.

      All his friends go to sleep too.

      The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.

      Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.

      And Professor Yaffle was a carved, wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.

      Even Bathyphysa himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy fish dish,

      Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,

      But the Japanese loved him.

  12. PhillW
    Unhappy

    First and last picture

    of his noodliness?

    This was BP, so expect 20,000 tonnes of crude to be tipped over the area soon :-(

    1. Sir Sham Cad

      Re: 20,000 tonnes of crude

      It's OK. They can just siphonophore it off.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: First and last picture

      The somewhat fawning line "through the generous help of offshore oil and gas companies" does stick in the throat somewhat. As if these companies are doing for anything other than PR and the hope that they might spot a good drilling location.

      Yes I know we all require oil to run modern day society, but there really should be some habitats that are off limits. Unfortunately thats not the case whether its deep sea drilling in the artic or in the forests of nigeria.

      1. Jimmy2Cows Silver badge

        Fawning...

        The somewhat fawning line "through the generous help of offshore oil and gas companies" does stick in the throat somewhat.

        Yeah it's a bit sickly, but at the same time BP etc don't have to let these guys use their ROVs. So in that context, they are being generous, and chaps benefiting from this generosity are politely acknowledging this.

        I think to call it "fawning" is unfair. They aren't saying BP are on wondrous and magnificent endeavours for the good of all mankind, just thanks for letting us play with your toys.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Fawning...

          I worked for one of the big oil companies in the 90s - it was the first company I worked at that had recycling bins by every desk, a company policy of not using lifts if only going 1 or 2 floors, using public transport whenever possible, etc.

          When your business is nasty, dirty stuff, it makes sense to try and be as green and positive in everything else you can do.

          So, yes, oil companies do care, even if it's only because they have to (and, internally, they don't have to go to as much trouble as they do).

  13. Scuby
    Joke

    Cue a load of John Hurt impersonations

    1. Chika

      Cue a load of John Hurt impersonations

      "Oh no... Not again!" - Spaceballs

  14. Crisp
    Coat

    It looks like a real life tentacle monster.

    Thankfully it looks far to small to pose any real kind of threat to a Japanese girl's school.

    1. DropBear
      Trollface

      Re: It looks like a real life tentacle monster.

      I can understand every single word in that sentence perfectly, except the "Thankfully" part. What is wrong with you?!?

  15. David Roberts
    Boffin

    Upside down?

    Probably just me, but this looks very much like a sea anemone which has become detached and is slowly floating down to the ocean bed upside-down.

    Earlier footage where the ROV bounces off the undersea installation it was inspecting?

    Voices off saying "that's better - last few trips it felt like we were towing something"?

    Thankfully His Noodly Goodness does not require literal belief.

  16. Lars Silver badge

    I think I lost my belief in intelligent design unless it's a Monday morning design of course.

    1. hplasm
      Unhappy

      Monday morning design

      Whoever designed Monday mornings wasn't intelligent...

      1. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
        Joke

        Re: Monday morning design

        Fair enough, I would say. On the other hand I can never quite get the hang of Thursdays

  17. Howard Hanek
    Headmaster

    Amazing Discovery

    So spaghetti does exist in nature! And attached to a giant meatball too!

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  19. Chris G

    Can't see the eye

    This is clearly a baby Avanc, it's eye must be covered by one of the tentacles.

  20. gregthecanuck

    Wow

    Looks like a cross between a jellyfish and a large anemone.

    Weird looking for sure, but cool at the same time. Definitely something new!

  21. Soma

    USO

    Yes .. It is an Unidentified Swimming Object

  22. Ed_UK

    A Damn Sight more credible...

    ...than those 'pictures' of Jeebus and family appearing in bits of toast, dirty laundry, and mouldy walls.

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