Not Octopus

[Colin]

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2614677.stm

anyway..........

 

[corw314]

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!!!



Carol

 

[Steve O'Shea]

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]

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.

nice thought tho!
C

 

[Colin]

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]

Notoctopus norsepiai

OMG

Soooo dangerous when punny people are allowed to name things...

 

[Colin]

Glad you came back online eventually! it was five days and that joke had died a death!

hehe

 

[Steve O'Shea]

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)

 

[Colin]

really?????????
Do we need to dig out the old Bufo marinus poem?