
(via National Geographic)
Aug 01 2011
Tags: blue tongued lizard, reptile
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Philip Legge, scribouillard idiote
1 August 2011 at 6:47 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Drinking the FreeThoughtBlogs Kool-Aid perhaps? Everything else around here’s turned blue as well.
Good morning PZ!
unbound
1 August 2011 at 7:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well, Willy Wonka warned him not to chew the gum…
Alex
1 August 2011 at 7:36 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Nice place you got here. Hopefully you guys are ready for inevitable the surge in traffic. It would be hilarious if Pharyngula pharyngulated itself. ;)
Rorschach
1 August 2011 at 7:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“via National Geographic” huh….; Not rubbing it in, are we….
Bruce Everett
1 August 2011 at 8:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I hope one day to be lucky enough to come across Tiliqua adelaidensis, the pygmy blue tongue. One of my Biota lecturers was able to do his PhD thesis on the little critters.
Numbers are on the way back up, despite their population currently being severely fragmented, and I hope the trend continues. Would be nice for the general public in the area to be able to see the occasional pygmy.
Marie the Bookwyrm
1 August 2011 at 8:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Well hello, shiny new blog! Just wanted to pop in before I go to sleep & say I’m looking forward to checking out the new blogs & the ones that I haven’t seen before. Good luck to all! I’ll check in again later today.
Oh, and will The Endless Thread be moved to this site? Inquiring minds want to know.
Patrick
1 August 2011 at 10:21 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Smurfs are tasty.
Ron Sullivan
1 August 2011 at 10:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hey, I know a guy who can do that with his tongue!
Except not the blue part, at least without outside input.
Katrina, radicales féministes athées
1 August 2011 at 10:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The image is blank. When I try to view image in a different window, I get the database error that everyone keeps mentioning.
DataJack
1 August 2011 at 11:34 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Nice new place you got here, PZ.
Mobius
1 August 2011 at 12:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Looks like he stuck his tongue in the blue printer ink and is trying to get the bad taste out of his mouth.
llewelly
1 August 2011 at 1:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Philip Legge, scribouillard | 1 August 2011 at 6:47 am :
It’s not Kool-Aid. It’s Flavor-Aid.
feralboy12, der Ken-Puppe Sie außerhalb in 1983 verlassen
1 August 2011 at 2:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
He’s been drinking out of the toilet again.
The Sailor (The rudder has been shipped, but I haven't shipped the rudder)
1 August 2011 at 5:55 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
llewelly, that was funny! I was going with “Blue Velvet”
Why yes, I am testing my old/new ‘nym on a new platform that is a rocky hillside. Why do you ask!?
Philip Legge
1 August 2011 at 8:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That would be the taste of bitter almonds wouldn’t it? Cyanide.
I’ll get my coat.
(And there’s where we get the Flavor-Aid connection Llewelly?)
Amblebury, bonne niut, Irene
2 August 2011 at 12:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Blue-tongued skink. Had ‘em about the place when I lived in Darwin Aus.
Amblebury, can't spell worth a damn
2 August 2011 at 12:13 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Nuit.
Wowbagger, Madman of Insleyfarne
2 August 2011 at 12:37 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sadly, I only see blue-tongue lizards when they’re roadkill.
Ragutis
2 August 2011 at 12:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
If I remember my elementary school days correctly*, the only things that could turn your tongue that vivid shade were blue raspberry Now n Laters.
And evolution.
*Unlikely. I don’t remember this morning correctly.
Caine, Ghetto féministe
2 August 2011 at 6:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That’s a wonderful contrast!