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View Full Version : Not Octopus Colin Dec 31st, 2002, 06:31am Em, yeah..... nothing to do with octopuses but quite interesting I thought.... Herpetology is (one of) my other interests.... My fav quote is.... 'snakes are snakes' LOL :lol: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2614677.stm anyway.......... corw314 Dec 31st, 2002, 01:14pm Did I read this right??? An animal shelter in a bar??????? If soooo,, maybe they adopt more out???? You could wake up with some pretty interesting creatures!!! :shock: Carol Steve O'Shea Dec 31st, 2002, 02:27pm I always wanted to name a genus Notoctopus .... but didn't think I'd get away with it (would have justified it by referring to Noto [southern] octopus ....and just dropped an o) :) Colin Jan 2nd, 2003, 06:31am Carol.. yeah i do think bars would work well at encouraging people to come in and adopt an animal but no such luck. Potters Bar is a town. :lol: nice thought tho! C Colin Jan 2nd, 2003, 06:35am Steve, perhaps using a regional dialect might work to help you get away with it? Eg In scots 'not' can be 'nae' Naeoctopus would work and not quite so obvious. so a new species of squid could be classed as Notoctopus norsepiai just maybe? NAE chance! Tintenfisch Jan 6th, 2003, 08:43pm Notoctopus norsepiai OMG :lol: Soooo dangerous when punny people are allowed to name things... Colin Jan 7th, 2003, 08:01am :oops: Glad you came back online eventually! it was five days and that joke had died a death! hehe Steve O'Shea Jan 7th, 2003, 10:37am I had a wee chuckle Col .... and you know I rarely venture down this neck of the woods (I can't keep up with you guys/gals and persons of dubious disposition) :wink: Colin Jan 8th, 2003, 08:02am :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: really????????? Do we need to dig out the old Bufo marinus poem? :roflmao: |