tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post3319158719969099749..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Fictional Botany: Spiculogramina greeniimr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-64668419990691561852009-08-12T09:23:58.092-07:002009-08-12T09:23:58.092-07:00Right. Like if I had lifetime scale immunity, I wo...Right. Like if I had lifetime scale immunity, I would give it to someone else instead of keeping it for myself.mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-91442727023634316062009-08-12T08:12:24.480-07:002009-08-12T08:12:24.480-07:00maybe fictitious points are redeemable for fictiti...maybe fictitious points are redeemable for fictitious prizes. i'd like to cash in my PATSP points and purchase magical lifetime scale immunity, please.Nature Assassinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16951932729955216912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-40527097385667794902009-08-11T11:51:34.635-07:002009-08-11T11:51:34.635-07:00After a little 'research' (is that cheatin...After a little 'research' (is that cheating?) and alot of reading I find out the points are worthless!!! Come on! Well what am I bitchin' about..not gonna win any points today anyway...lol!lynn'sgardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09104383899991317740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-24542016206499910042009-08-11T11:06:16.419-07:002009-08-11T11:06:16.419-07:00Anonymous:
And you bring this up because . . . ?Anonymous:<br /><br />And you bring this up because . . . ?mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-46267769560511354082009-08-11T10:54:42.456-07:002009-08-11T10:54:42.456-07:00There is an excellent interactive usda plant hardi...There is an excellent interactive usda plant hardiness zone based on google maps at <br /><br />http://www.plantmaps.com/usda_hardiness_zone_map.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-86605066781513932502009-08-11T09:37:41.605-07:002009-08-11T09:37:41.605-07:00Nature Assassin:
You are. You now have 50,000 PA...Nature Assassin: <br /><br />You are. You now have 50,000 PATSP points. (The other part of the reference was that the Television Without Pity recappers and forum participants often referred to Spike as "Spicule," once he became less threatening and no longer warranted a full "Spike." And "Spicul[e]" is part of the genus name.)<br /><br />The other embedded reference mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-6520667462770710642009-08-11T09:15:51.521-07:002009-08-11T09:15:51.521-07:00S. marsterei, with pale yellow coloration and sili...S. marsterei, with pale yellow coloration and silica-based serrations... am I seeing a Buffy reference?Nature Assassinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16951932729955216912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-51768159634360682952009-08-11T08:48:22.098-07:002009-08-11T08:48:22.098-07:00[shrug]
Hate to disappoint, but I didn't have...[shrug]<br /><br />Hate to disappoint, but I didn't have anything in mind at all for Dawson: it could as easily have been Lewis's banana, or Sheridan's banana, or etc. Dawson was just the name that popped into my head.mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-76689266649507105812009-08-11T08:43:36.031-07:002009-08-11T08:43:36.031-07:00Hm... What's the Dawson reference, then? The...Hm... What's the Dawson reference, then? The biologist? I still think it's funny. Archaeology was rife with horrible, nonscientific peeps way back in the when--since that was the other half of my degree, I feel upset about the damage they did to history, and any chance to mock them is golden to me!Kenneth Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619410362453458358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-20303310997676929732009-08-11T07:44:02.209-07:002009-08-11T07:44:02.209-07:00Well, Dawson's banana is not the reference I w...Well, Dawson's banana is not the reference I was thinking of, no. <br /><br />Kenneth Moore:<br /><br />I don't actually know what <i>Pugnaxis robusta</i> is like, except that it's somehow even more invasive and destructive than <i>Spiculogramina greenii</i>. Not necessarily more physically dangerous, though. Since I was trying to invent the nastiest plausible plant I could think of mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-81988802871600198012009-08-11T06:00:30.328-07:002009-08-11T06:00:30.328-07:00Hm... Is Dawson's banana a reference to the f...Hm... Is Dawson's banana a reference to the faker archaeologist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dawson" rel="nofollow">Charles Dawson</a>? Y'know, 'cause he faked the "missing link" and this banana is faked, too, but I kind of want one as a guard-plant near my front door!Kenneth Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619410362453458358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-9080889177618660972009-08-11T05:14:12.291-07:002009-08-11T05:14:12.291-07:00Now that is one bad ass plant! I assume the spines...Now that is one bad ass plant! I assume the spines start high enough up that they don't tear up the rodents? I'm totally clueless on the contest...sheilanoreply@blogger.com