Click on the link above, and you also get a warning, “Major server issue – many images unavailable. We have recently identified an issue preventing a fair number of images to be displayed. If are unable to see the image below, please accept our appologies. We hope to return to normal service in a few days.”
I think we have a new definition for “Pharyngulation.”
MikeM
Incorygiblesays
Okay, but if Monday’s Metazoan is a bird called the “Frocked Buggerer” or a cat called the “Disgraced Brown Tiger”, I’m going to believe there’s something to this “nomenclature recapitulates current events” hypothesis…
Kevinsays
Okay, I totally have to go do WikiGraffiti on the Wiki for the tree.
“See Also:
Republican Party
Glenn Beck
usw.”
David Marjanovićsays
Hey! Pterocarya! One of those trees that died out in Europe in one of the first ice ages, leaving Europe’s forests so impoverished!
JonD, you’re thinking of Tilia (and still not getting it quite right even then). Look it up in Wikipedia.
Deepsixsays
“The common name of this tree is the Caucasian Wingnut”
In the words of the great and noble American, Cousin Eddie, “You serious, Clark?”
jcmartz.myopenid.comsays
The Becknut wingnutium.
davemsays
Driving back home tonight in the UK, the daffodils were everywhere. No wingnuts, though…
EricKsays
fraxinifolia… I assume this to mean that when the tree buds it makes an ash out of itself.
Antiochus Epiphanessays
EricK: Well played, sir.
mothrasays
@13
There is already a Red bishop, a Cardinal, a Prothonotary warbler, an apostle bird, a nun bird, a brown creeper and a royal flycatcher. What more do you want? :)
mothrasays
I’ll bet blackbirds or (European) robins nesting in that tree raise only cuckoo chicks.
JonDsays
@David
It was a joke that misfired. It was meant to be a portmanteau of “Limbaugh” and “Baum”, but I forgot how to spell the windbag’s name.
Acronym Jimsays
It still works without the portmanteau, JonD:
When the Limbaugh breaks the teabags will fall..and down will come caucasian wingnut, squirrels and all.
Acronym Jimsays
Unfortunately, the meter sucks, but oh well.
JonDsays
@AcronymJim
See, that would have been so much better. When I wrote it, I was actually in the middle of a break in my early molecular bio lecture with no caffeine in my system, so I was hardly in top form.
Stardrakesays
There was a couple of them there trees at the Mpls. Convention Center today…
Mock-a-bye Palin, sap at the top.
Looking for Rush-a-top the tree GOP.
When Limbaugh breaks,
and wingnuts do fall..
then down will come teabags, party and all.
Don Smithsays
It looks like it’s related to the whomping willow.
EricKsays
@Antiochus
Thanks! Glad someone got that. I thought it might be too obscure. :)
Wow! There’s a tree named after the GOP? Who knew?
The Lindbaum!
Finally, the answer to the question “If Sarah Palin were a tree, what tree would she be?”
(As it is known to germanophones)
At least they have a new mascot in case they get bored with the elephant…
Ah, the Caucasian Wingnut — nestled, as usual, amongst all the Daffy-dills.
This kind of puts me in mind of a time when Baxter Black went all Politically Correct and renamed himself Frontster Caucasion.
Or maybe it is different.
JC
Is that a teabag on one of the lower branches?
It looks kind of scary, daffodils or no.
That thing grows like they think.
So teabaggers do grow on trees.
Click on the link above, and you also get a warning, “Major server issue – many images unavailable. We have recently identified an issue preventing a fair number of images to be displayed. If are unable to see the image below, please accept our appologies. We hope to return to normal service in a few days.”
I think we have a new definition for “Pharyngulation.”
MikeM
Okay, but if Monday’s Metazoan is a bird called the “Frocked Buggerer” or a cat called the “Disgraced Brown Tiger”, I’m going to believe there’s something to this “nomenclature recapitulates current events” hypothesis…
Okay, I totally have to go do WikiGraffiti on the Wiki for the tree.
“See Also:
Republican Party
Glenn Beck
usw.”
Hey! Pterocarya! One of those trees that died out in Europe in one of the first ice ages, leaving Europe’s forests so impoverished!
JonD, you’re thinking of Tilia (and still not getting it quite right even then). Look it up in Wikipedia.
“The common name of this tree is the Caucasian Wingnut”
In the words of the great and noble American, Cousin Eddie, “You serious, Clark?”
The Becknut wingnutium.
Driving back home tonight in the UK, the daffodils were everywhere. No wingnuts, though…
fraxinifolia… I assume this to mean that when the tree buds it makes an ash out of itself.
EricK: Well played, sir.
@13
There is already a Red bishop, a Cardinal, a Prothonotary warbler, an apostle bird, a nun bird, a brown creeper and a royal flycatcher. What more do you want? :)
I’ll bet blackbirds or (European) robins nesting in that tree raise only cuckoo chicks.
@David
It was a joke that misfired. It was meant to be a portmanteau of “Limbaugh” and “Baum”, but I forgot how to spell the windbag’s name.
It still works without the portmanteau, JonD:
When the Limbaugh breaks the teabags will fall..and down will come caucasian wingnut, squirrels and all.
Unfortunately, the meter sucks, but oh well.
@AcronymJim
See, that would have been so much better. When I wrote it, I was actually in the middle of a break in my early molecular bio lecture with no caffeine in my system, so I was hardly in top form.
There was a couple of them there trees at the Mpls. Convention Center today…
Mock-a-bye Palin, sap at the top.
Looking for Rush-a-top the tree GOP.
When Limbaugh breaks,
and wingnuts do fall..
then down will come teabags, party and all.
It looks like it’s related to the whomping willow.
@Antiochus
Thanks! Glad someone got that. I thought it might be too obscure. :)