Awesome sport played underwater in a pool, with a lead puck and snorkelling gear. Two teams of 6, 4 subs.
No, the sticks aren't a metre long, that would be silly. They're 30cm max length and can easily lift the 1Kg puck off the bottom of the pool. Good players can get long (3m+) and high (1m+) flicks. Neither is it a slow sport - players wear fins and can go much MUCH faster than boring old lane swimmers.
AKA Underwater Hockey (UWH):
Invented in 1954, the original English rules had 8 players per team and the sticks are called 'pushers', hence "Octopush".
The rules are generally similar to hockey. When going for strike at the start of a game, all the players start at their goal line. There's 2-3 water refs in a competition, plus timekeeper and a poolside ref.
There are national and international competitions. Pretty big in New Zealand, South Africa, USA, UK, France, Australia, Portugal, Netherlands...
Water Polo players think their sport is challenging, but they struggle to think below the surface:
No, the sticks aren't a metre long, that would be silly. They're 30cm max length and can easily lift the 1Kg puck off the bottom of the pool. Good players can get long (3m+) and high (1m+) flicks. Neither is it a slow sport - players wear fins and can go much MUCH faster than boring old lane swimmers.
AKA Underwater Hockey (UWH):
Invented in 1954, the original English rules had 8 players per team and the sticks are called 'pushers', hence "Octopush".
The rules are generally similar to hockey. When going for strike at the start of a game, all the players start at their goal line. There's 2-3 water refs in a competition, plus timekeeper and a poolside ref.
There are national and international competitions. Pretty big in New Zealand, South Africa, USA, UK, France, Australia, Portugal, Netherlands...
Water Polo players think their sport is challenging, but they struggle to think below the surface:
Speed Swimmers: "I can do fifty in blah blah blah..."
Water Polo: "Ug? Me drown you"
Free Diver: "I can hold my breath for blah blah blah..."
Underwater Rugby: "O hai, can I hold you?"
Octopusher: <elitist smirk>
Water Polo: "Ug? Me drown you"
Free Diver: "I can hold my breath for blah blah blah..."
Underwater Rugby: "O hai, can I hold you?"
Octopusher: <elitist smirk>
by UWH player March 2, 2009
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When someone doesn't wipe their butthole after taking a shit and has someone else use their tongue to lick it clean afterward. This is usually done as payment for cocaine or other drugs as was seen in the 1970s by Eddie Nash, cocaine and nightclub kingpin of LA.
Eddie: Oh Jesus, I just had explosive diarrhea and it's all over my butthole.
Crackhead: Oh boy! I'll give you a Crusty Octopus for a gram of cocaine.
Crackhead: Oh boy! I'll give you a Crusty Octopus for a gram of cocaine.
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Get the Blue Octopus Space Station mug.Complimenting someone or gassing them up to the point where you're feeding their excessive ego, like a greedy, hungry octopus. 'Octopus' is also phonetically similar to solipsism, the idea that only the self exists.
Lou: You look so amazing today Julia.
Julia: (already full of herself) Omg thanks.
Briana: Lou, you're just feeding the octopus.
Julia: (already full of herself) Omg thanks.
Briana: Lou, you're just feeding the octopus.
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A term popularized by an episode of Comedy Central's "Drawn Together" where Princess Clara reveals her monsterous eight tentacled genetalia due to a curse inflicted by an evil step-mother.
Also used to reference a particularly unsightly or disfigured vagina that induces uncontrolled vomiting.
A term popularized by an episode of Comedy Central's "Drawn Together" where Princess Clara reveals her monsterous eight tentacled genetalia due to a curse inflicted by an evil step-mother.
Also used to reference a particularly unsightly or disfigured vagina that induces uncontrolled vomiting.
Example:
Girl: Scott and I were getting hot and heavy last night but he was turned off by my octopusseios.
Girl: Scott and I were getting hot and heavy last night but he was turned off by my octopusseios.
by Figaro The Cat March 24, 2006
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Kate's octopus defense kicked in when we were hooking up at that party. She inked all over the place, left me seeing red.
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