One of the disadvantages of tertiary education.
Actually, I prefer fish........hows about Microstomatichthys bashforddeani? Pity the little fella's only three inches long (the fish, I mean.......).
A poor old ladybird got saddled with Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata (which even the entomologists abreviate to S. 24-punctata.....).
Don't get me started........
Pets!
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jj
Re: Pets!
.....a rather quaint one is for the Pygmy Sperm Whale: Kogia breviceps, which is apparently a pun on 'codger'. Sweet........for a 20-foot marine mammal.
Pity the poor Jenny Wren, though, whose then-current name was changed by the taxonomic rules of priority back to Troglodytes: though I've certainly never heard of them living in caves..........
And another scientist used to make up generic names by anagrammatising his wife's name. Good job she wasn't called Zoe or Pat or May, I suppose........or Anastasia.
Pity the poor Jenny Wren, though, whose then-current name was changed by the taxonomic rules of priority back to Troglodytes: though I've certainly never heard of them living in caves..........
And another scientist used to make up generic names by anagrammatising his wife's name. Good job she wasn't called Zoe or Pat or May, I suppose........or Anastasia.
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buttsie
Re: Pets!
Would be a handy way of getting around town when the Beamers in for a service...pulling your Solid Gold Rickshaw I mean
Would make mince meat of the heavy traffic round the village
I can see ya cracking the whip already
Kermits replacement....El Liz
cheers
B....OZ Full Of It and Then Some
Would make mince meat of the heavy traffic round the village
I can see ya cracking the whip already
Kermits replacement....El Liz
cheers
B....OZ Full Of It and Then Some