In April 1991 on the newsgroup rec.arts.comics.misc, someone
asked what was going on with the comic "Suicide Squad"; however,
he misspelled it as "Suicide Squid". This led to a chain
reaction of posts detailing exactly what was happening in the
non-existent "Suicide Squid" comic; for a while, these posts
almost overwhelmed the rest of the traffic in the newsgroup. The
Suicide Squid became the official mascot of rec.arts.comics.misc,
and their annual award is named the Squiddy in its honor.
The complete Suicide Squid archives can be found at
ftp://theory.lcs.mit.edu/pub/people/wald/suicide-squid