CA woman gives birth to octuplets: "By the fourth or fifth it started to get pretty easy since the kids had formed a sort of neonatal conga line."

Shocking news: While assisting a woman whom they thought was delivering sextuplets, doctors discovered that this woman was actually giving birth to octuplets. 

But still not as shocking as what I had originally thought this story was about. Watching CNN in a drinking establishment where the TV was drowned out by drunken revelry and annoying cell phone users with no sense of etiquette, I had to rely on rudimentary lip-reading skills to see what the news item was all about. 

Consequently, I could have sworn they said that a woman devouring sex tablets had given birth to an octopus. Imagine my disappointment relief at the considerably less jaw-dropping actual story. [Note to self: Avoid behaviors that bring a high risk of deafness.]

[above: The caption was missing from this photo attached to the story, but I'm fairly certain it said six of the octuplets have already gone on to successful careers as physicians.]

UPDATE (February 7, 2009):

People are piiiiiiiissed that this unemployed grad student and single mother of six children now has eight more children for Uncle Sam to feed. Sure, she'll be able to simultaneously field a baseball team and a basketball team, but a lot of folks find this grossly irresponsible and her fame has turned into infamy. Maybe if she really had given birth to an octopus, she'd have more sympathy.