Since everyone on the planet is sending me this, I'd better post it. Besides, it's pretty!
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Off topic, but I need advice.
DonorsChoose.org has rewarded me with a $100.00 gift certificate which I can donate to help fund any of their classroom projects listed.
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Thanks.
What a beautiful sculpture in glass!
But I think I've gone bonkers (alas!),
Because all I can see
(And I blame you, PZ)
Is that octo-girl shaking her ass.
Cuttlefish, I think you're misled,
It really is pronounced PZed
@Rob the Lurker: Click on PZ's Donor's Choose logo and then when you get to their site, the other SciBloggers will be in the sidebar. A lot of them still have projects (I used my GC for one of Janet's myself, but there are others).
@The Ridger: Good idea. I'll see if any of Janet's needs the help. Thanks.
If DC is really misled
And the name is really "P-Zed"
Matters little to me;
'long as his poetry
Targets funnybone and the head! :)
It's beautiful, and rather short-lived, just like the real octopus. Of course, its lifespan in the same house as my three year old would be orders of magnitude less than the original... x.x
Yes, those arms are possessed
Of rare charms, and I, too, am obsessed,
And to further entangle, from the right angle,
Her head looks quite like a breast! : - D
(I'm cracking myself up here)
Hmmm... That's not her head, is it? Oh well, poetic license.
Now everyone knows what to get PZ for Christmas.
As a matter of description,
Both forms have been heard.
But when it comes to prescription,
PZ has final word.
Aren't mimic octopi expensive to buy and ship?
I looked at my poem this morning and got irritated that I had mangled it. So, at the risk of being tiresome, here it is again in its rightful effulgent splendor.
It's true that those arms are possessed
Of rare charms and I, too, am obsessed,
And to further entangle, from just the right angle
Her body looks quite like a breast!
See, by changing the first line to improve the timing and...aw, never mind
If you want glass replicas of marine invertebrates, there's no beating the Blaschka collection at Cornell.
Ivy - awesome link, thanks! I had seen these before, but couldn't remember what the link was . . . bookmarked now. :)