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  1. deriamis says

    D’awww!

    @Sven DiMilo #4
    There’s nothing like a good joke. Good thing that really was nothing like a good joke.

  2. Gyeong Hwa Pak, the Pikachu of Anthropology says

    Beautiful creatures! IIRC, a documentary on PBS stated that anemones are capable of not dying of old age. Can some verify that, or did INRC?

  3. Nineveh says

    Dear SvenDiMilo….

    Hahahahahahaaahaah!!!!

    That was both hilarious and adorable. And now I’m in the mood for Finding Nemo.

  4. Sven DiMilo says

    Of course it’s not original.

    As a matter of weird fact, I remember exactly from where I stole that joke. It was the liner notes of a Dave Brubeck album, quoting Paul Desmond. I read it before 1977 for sure.
    What an awesome organ is the brain!

  5. JohnnieCanuck says

    I’d like to be under the sea
    In an octopus’ garden in the shade.

    We would be warm below the storm
    In our little hideaway beneath the waves
    Resting our head on the sea bed
    In an octopus’ garden near a cave

  6. https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawncr0FDc8gdl7yJBz0SJ15D0etcTIOtL0s says

    Mmmmmm, posies with a pang.

    And Sven, oy, you make it redundant. With fiends like you, who needs anemones? However, anemone of yours is anemone of mine.

    Ron Sullivan, worshipper of Clo the Cow
    http://toad.faultline.org

  7. Odonata says

    Here’s a bit of sea anemone reproduction trivia – “The sexes in sea anemones are separate for some species while some are hermaphroditic. Both sexual and asexual reproduction may occur. In sexual reproduction males release sperm to stimulate females to release eggs, and fertilization occurs. Anemones eject eggs and sperm through the mouth. The fertilized egg develops into a planula, which settles and grows into a single polyp. Anemones can also reproduce asexually, by budding, binary fission (the polyp separates into two halves), and pedal laceration, in which small pieces of the pedal disc break off and regenerate into small anemones.”
    ~Wikipedia

  8. Blind Squirrel FCD says

    Anemones eject eggs and sperm through the mouth.

    Anemones ingest and excrete everything through the mouth. It’s the only orifice they have. Gets an eeeew from the kiddies every time.

    BS

  9. Blind Squirrel FCD says

    #7

    Beautiful creatures! IIRC, a documentary on PBS stated that anemones are capable of not dying of old age. Can some verify that, or did INRC?

    Since creatures that reproduce by fission don’t have ancestors or descendants as such, the statement is meaningless.

    BS

  10. dougm says

    ok surely you remember the old Bennet Sirf(?) punch line?…….With fronds like those who needs anemones?

  11. David Marjanović says

    anemones are capable of not dying of old age

    Imaginable. Apparently that’s the case for turtles (though, unsurprisingly, that research is still ongoing).

  12. daveau says

    Fooled me. I thought the post about the masturbating elephants was the MMM. This is more aesthetically pleasant.

  13. Knockgoats says

    IIRC, a documentary on PBS stated that anemones are capable of not dying of old age. – Gyeong Hwa Pak, Lao Daung Duen

    Oh, I’m capable of that. All I need is to jump off a sufficiently high building, and I can be pretty sure of not dying of old age!