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Botanical Wednesday: Shouldn't they sparkle? Or mope?
Category: Organisms
Posted on: July 28, 2010 3:47 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: 朴競花/박경화 (Gyeong Hwa)
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July 28, 2010 3:56 PM
I love orchids for the reason that they are just so diverse in shape and form.
Posted by: jaybgee
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July 28, 2010 3:57 PM
They remind me of monkeys.
Posted by: Kieranfoy, Faerie Godfather of Death, GMKSC, OED
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July 28, 2010 3:59 PM
Hence 'simia.'
Posted by: uppity cracka
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July 28, 2010 4:00 PM
after reading the title of the post i was expecting something "twilight" related.
Posted by: Kieranfoy, Faerie Godfather of Death, GMKSC, OED
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July 28, 2010 4:05 PM
It is. "Dracula" Simia.
Posted by: jack21222
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July 28, 2010 4:05 PM
Holy paraidolia, batman. I honestly don't see how they resemble vampires at all, but I definitely see the monkeys.
Posted by: MultiTool
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July 28, 2010 4:08 PM
re: #4
And you got it: Monkey vampires! More fun than a barrel of Edwards!
Posted by: SteveM
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July 28, 2010 4:14 PM
I think the "Dracula" part comes from their elaborate "collars".
Posted by: daveau
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July 28, 2010 4:19 PM
Now I'm reminded of the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.
Posted by: geneb123
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July 28, 2010 4:20 PM
No, no, you're all wrong! It's the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus!!!!1!
Posted by: Janice in Toronto
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July 28, 2010 4:33 PM
Ohhhh! It's Jesus!
I see Jesus in the flower!
It's a miracle!
Oh wait, it's not Jesus at all.
Shucks...
Posted by: Merridol
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July 28, 2010 4:43 PM
Monkey? Vampire? It's both! Monkey skulls look like little vampire skulls.
Posted by: Butch Pansy
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July 28, 2010 5:04 PM
Do they fling poo? Ghost turds are also known as dust bunnies. What are vampire turds like? Probably not so fluffy....
Posted by: Romeo Vitelli
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July 28, 2010 5:54 PM
"What are vampire turds like? Probably not so fluffy...."
Sparkly. Definitely sparkly.
Posted by: elronxenu
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July 28, 2010 5:56 PM
My first thought was "which lead is the cathode?"
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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July 28, 2010 6:14 PM
Common design, not common descent.
It'll be the core evidence in the next edition of Of Pandas and People.
Glen Davidson
Posted by: Kamaka
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July 28, 2010 6:51 PM
They look like little PZs to me.
Posted by: jenbphillips
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July 28, 2010 6:56 PM
They remind me of Cassandra--the 'bitchy trampoline' from the first season of 1990's Dr. Who.
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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July 28, 2010 6:59 PM
Ugly monkeys.
But I repeat myself.
Posted by: Betelgeuse
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July 28, 2010 7:00 PM
OOh gosh, after you gave Bee Orchids the spot of honour a few weeks ago I really wanted to lobby for these as well, and then of course forgot about it.
But you got there first, woohoo.
And yay for orchids.
Posted by: McCthulhu is taking ∞ to eat all the pi
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July 28, 2010 7:26 PM
As Kundun would tell you, these were monkeys who did something naughty and were reincarnated back to plants. Shame on these monkeys. Shonkeys.
Posted by: MadScientist
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July 28, 2010 8:04 PM
Dracula Monkey? Hehehe. I saw the faces of a species of Tarsius. Come to think of it, all the species of monkey I can recall have rather menacing fangs - are all monkeys draculae?
Posted by: SteveM
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July 28, 2010 8:07 PM
re 18:
Hardly the 90's; the episode with Cassandra was first broadcast on April 2, 2005. According to the Wiki article you linked to.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott , Drinking Solo Since Death's Back On The Wagon
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July 28, 2010 8:40 PM
Aaawwww . . . just look at them. They look just like little guys! Not even dangerous, no fangs!
Their countenance is more like desperate concern leavened by insufficient resources. Sort of a caricature of a simian and by extension, a caricature of ourselves. I rather like the sentiment that is implicit in this instance of seeing faces where there are none, having felt exactly the way this flower looks at least forty-leven times.
I wonder, how does the flower actually feel?
Posted by: Mark
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July 28, 2010 9:12 PM
The first thing Mr. Rorschach here saw were two cat butts.
Posted by: cicely (Inadvertent Phytocidal Maniac)
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July 28, 2010 9:14 PM
Tamarinds of some kind.
Posted by: Nick Gisburne
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July 28, 2010 9:50 PM
Special secret vampire tip: to reveal the undead alter-egos of the monkeys, you will need to look at the photo the other way up - the fangs and bleeding eyeballs will instantly appear.
Always look at pareidolia from as many directions as possible - the face of Jesus in a pizza is often actually a chicken with a moustache running for a bus, with the accompanying ramifications for world religion. Or something.
Posted by: McCthulhu is taking ∞ to eat all the pi
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July 28, 2010 10:07 PM
@Nick of Gisburne:
I don't know why, but whenever I see these 'miracles' of Jesus or The Virgin Mary appearing on food items, I only see Tommy Chong and Vanessa Redgrave. People only see what they want to see. I have no idea why I want to see Tommy Chong or Vanessa Redgrave, but apparently my mind thinks they're important and I should see them appear on my nachos and burnt toast. Maybe they owe me money and I've forgotten.
Posted by: csue-n-moo
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July 28, 2010 10:22 PM
Monkeys with little pope hats. Definitely.
Posted by: jenbphillips
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July 28, 2010 10:23 PM
Ah, yeah. I meant mid-naughties. whoops.Posted by: John Morales
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July 28, 2010 10:33 PM
SteveM,
I guess they feel sexy.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott , Drinking Solo Since Death's Back On The Wagon
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July 29, 2010 12:39 AM
I wonder, how does the flower actually feel?I guess they feel sexy.
Well. Feeling sexy is not unusual and is often part of the turf. And I'm not SteveM. But you are John, I'm sure of it.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott , Drinking Solo Since Death's Back On The Wagon
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July 29, 2010 12:41 AM
Not copping to HTML FAIL. No. Not me. Something else is wrong.
Posted by: John Morales
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July 29, 2010 12:49 AM
Crudely Wrott,
<blush>
...
Excuse me a mo.
<footsteps receding>
...
faint thunk!
faint thunk!
faint thunk!>
...
footsteps returning>
...
Sorry.
Posted by: jcmartz.myopenid.com
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July 29, 2010 12:58 AM
Smile!
Posted by: Crudely Wrott , Drinking Solo Since Death's Back On The Wagon
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July 29, 2010 1:00 AM
All I can say is "You're welcome, John." So am I. Here is where we find ourselves and get caught up in minor whimsy about having automatic intuition. Shucks . . . I ain't no good at it neither . . . trustin' as I do to mutual honesty which is not hardly a natural state but impedes upon our druthers from time time.
Happy trails.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott , Drinking Solo Since Death's Back On The Wagon
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July 29, 2010 1:06 AM
Too, there is a to in there too. Just in time . . .
Posted by: McCthulhu is taking ∞ to eat all the pi
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July 29, 2010 2:17 AM
John Morales, #31:
'Otter' Stratton: I think Dracula simia can be very sensuous, don't you?
Marion Wormer: No, Dracula simia are sensual. People are sensuous.
Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawntbkLlJwiX1gbzB1e7Fo4BfJhgc2TJuek
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July 29, 2010 7:55 AM
I too saw cat bums at first but then it was Einstein!
Posted by: scooterKPFT
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July 29, 2010 8:23 AM
Sparkle.
Mope
Sparkle and Mope.
Damn that really rolls off the tongue.
Sparkle and Mope.
Sparkle and Mope,
don't be a dope,
there is no hope,
unless I grope the
Sparkle and Mope
Sparkle and Mope
oh crap, I'm no good at this....
CUTTLEFISH
where are you?? !!
Posted by: drewy813
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July 30, 2010 1:37 AM
I see Turkeys...
Posted by: calladus
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July 30, 2010 4:02 PM
I know what these look like!
Oompa-Loompa
Doopadee doo!
I've got another
Riddle for you!