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Taxonomy humor [warning: no catfish, contains mild humor]
Posted: 10 Apr 2012, 19:16
by Jools
Apologies for an not catfish post, but I guess that the audience most likely to find this article funny would be this forum's audience.
17 Awesome, Nerdy Examples Of Taxonomy Humor
Han Solo (a fossil named to mirror a "fossilied" Star Wars character) is an instant classic.
Jools
Re: Taxonomy humor [warning: no catfish, contains mild humor
Posted: 10 Apr 2012, 20:12
by Birger
Those are great fun
Re: Taxonomy humor [warning: no catfish, contains mild humor
Posted: 10 Apr 2012, 20:32
by kruseman
Hmmm, this reminds me of those Turkish "jokers" who named a killifish after their soccerclub Fehnerbace. Pretty irresponsible scientists, they are in
my view.
Re: Taxonomy humor [warning: no catfish, contains mild humor
Posted: 10 Apr 2012, 20:35
by Jools
kruseman wrote:Pretty irresponsible scientists, they are in my view.
Do you think
is equally irresponsible or do you think it is clever or funny?
Jools
Re: Taxonomy humor [warning: no catfish, contains mild humor
Posted: 10 Apr 2012, 20:40
by kruseman
That's spot on!
Re: Taxonomy humor [warning: no catfish, contains mild humor
Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 04:57
by Shovelnose
You get a lot of that stuff here :
http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/
Re: Taxonomy humor [warning: no catfish, contains mild humor
Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 06:59
by Firestorming
Nice, the way I look at it if you put in the effort to either classify something or better still get out in the field and find something new you can call it whatever the hell you want.
