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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........

.....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.

Bring back Steve!!!! )

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

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B....OZ Full Of It and Then Some

They are! About ten years ago I visited Nairobi National Park. There is a little zoo belonging to the park. In this zoo I met a water buffalo that loved to be caressed and patted.
Affection isn't the problem. The problems are size and hygienic habits.

Nah, I cant see Russel Crow on a Water Buffalo, ok, he looks a bit like one.

I wouldn't be so sure about Russ....he's actually from New Zealand
not thats theres anything wrong with that

If the Water Buffalo were female.....EH?

Gladiator 2-Beauty & the Beast

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B....OZ

I've finally bored you into submission, eh?
Would you like some little-known facts about very small rocks? They too are quite sensationally dull.........

I'll see your rocks and raise you rail company livery colours of the 19th century!

Go for it: North British/L&Y/LBSCR hold no terrors for me, young whippersnapper........
How about 'the history of Natal and Zululand Postage Due Labels, overprinted for use as Stamp Duty receipts'.....?