Tell Me Something I Don't Know

[BookstoreEscapee]

Funny you should mention the male anglerfish.

How the male angler fish gets completely screwed

Speaking of The Oatmeal...I met Matthew Inman in May and got a free autographed copy of My Dog, The Paradox.

The girl two ahead of me in line brought him a crocheted version of the dog that she had made. He drew a special picture in her book.

Matthew Inman is cute.

[Tama]

Funny you should mention the male anglerfish.

How the male angler fish gets completely screwed

[SongsOfDragons]

A specific species of Anglerfish has an interesting way of mating...

The males are significantly smaller than the females, and their sole "purpose" is to find and mate with a female. If they don't, they'll starve.

The male anglerfish essentially bites the female, and releases an enzyme that essentially fuses the two together. At some point, the male anglerfish atrophies, and it looks like the female has parasites attached to her.

On this episode of 'Adventurous Sex of the Animal Kingdom'...

Flatworms!!

Flatworms and their epic mating sport of Penis fencing!!!

They wage battle with each other, vying to be the one to stab the other first in this, the sport of invertebrate kings. The loser verily becomes the mother.

[mjr]

You do not like it, Sam-I-Am?



BTW, a little OT, but I remember this fondly to this day. Rev. Jesse Jackson's rendition...

There's also a version of "The Cat in the Hat" written in Latin...It's called "Cattus Petasatus"

[mjr]

All Clownfish are born male. When it's time to mate, if there are no females around, the dominant male switches teams, so to speak.

A specific species of Anglerfish has an interesting way of mating...

The males are significantly smaller than the females, and their sole "purpose" is to find and mate with a female. If they don't, they'll starve.

The male anglerfish essentially bites the female, and releases an enzyme that essentially fuses the two together. At some point, the male anglerfish atrophies, and it looks like the female has parasites attached to her.

[sms001]

try not to be pulling your hair out after reading it 3 times in a row

You do not like it, Sam-I-Am?



BTW, a little OT, but I remember this fondly to this day. Rev. Jesse Jackson's rendition...

[EricKei]

All Clownfish are born male. When it's time to mate, if there are no females around, the dominant male switches teams, so to speak.

[Tyg3rW01f]

okay, it's SHARK WEEK!!!

But I have an odd question that seems like a DUH, but it may not be: WHY is a Great White's breach attack called a "Polaris Breach"? I mean, does it have something to do with the fact that the longest-serving vert-launch missile in the Navy is the Polaris?

[joe20girl]

peanut butter has the same taste and texture coming up, as going down....

[Jester]

Durp, I was wrong. It actually was Hawaii, in Dec '59. But Ohio was an unexpected 3rd from last.

Still wrong, I'm afraid. And I don't just say this as someone from the State that WAS the third from last, Arizona in 1912. (We're Number 48!)

No, I say this because you have been fed some bad info, kiddo. I know, I know, there was some confusion a while back about the legitimacy of Onio's 1803 induction in the Union as the 17th State. But it was legitimate, and the confusion and why the original induction was actually legitimate is addressed here.

[TheSHAD0W]

The last state to join the USA was...

No, not Hawaii...

No, not Alaska...

It was Ohio? In 1953? Really?

Durp, I was wrong. It actually was Hawaii, in Dec '59. But Ohio was an unexpected 3rd from last.

[dalesys]

and as a parent I have a love-hate relationship with that book. try not to be pulling your hair out after reading it 3 times in a row

Do like my mom... tell them the story of the Pea Little Thrigs and the Wig Wah'd Bolf...

You'll have them jumping like popcorn in a popper.

[Antisocial_Worker]

Run your tongue up the inside of your incisors. Do you feel a vertical trench running up the inside of the tooth, deeper at the top near the gum than at the bottom? If so, congratulations -- you have a fairly significant amount of either Asian or Native American heritage in your lineage. Native Americans and Asians are the only two populations in the world whose teeth bear that trench, which comes in handy (as you might imagine) should a skeleton be found. Helps narrow things down.

[dawnfire]

Speaking of Dr. Seuss, his publisher once bet him that he couldn't write a story using 50 different words. He proved him wrong. The book?

Green Eggs and Ham.

The Cat In The Hat contains 225 words.

and as a parent I have a love-hate relationship with that book. try not to be pulling your hair out after reading it 3 times in a row

[fireheart]

Dr. Seuss's real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel.

Speaking of Dr. Seuss, his publisher once bet him that he couldn't write a story using 50 different words. He proved him wrong. The book?

Green Eggs and Ham.

The Cat In The Hat contains 225 words.