[Found here, here, here and here.]
Category: Fish Stuff
Ghost Fish Rodeo
[Found here.]
Gone Fishing
Polyptotons, Diacopes, Syllepsis & Hot Links
Any book other than a dictionary that employs the terms Polyptoton, Aposiopesis, Merism, Hyperbaton, Anadiplosis, Diacope, Hendiadys, Epistrophe, Tricolon, Epizeuxis, Syllepsis, Enallage, Zeugma, Chiasmus, Catachresis, Litotes, Metonymy, Pleonasm, Epanalepsis and Scesis Onomaton gets thrown into The Department of Overwhelming Pretentious Verbiage unless it’s written by P.J. O’Rourke. Unfortunately, this one was not, but it could have been [via].
Don’t know about you, but I’m kinda glad the Aztecs are gone.
Cyrus Cylinder is not a rock group.
We posted this before, and we’ll likely post it again: Milton Friedman explains how Capitalism works [via].
Full-time employment is inching up. Maybe.
Cat Eats Dog. You’re on your own with this one. Yeah, it’s safe.
Google “Dog Barf” and you get this – nothing but links to advertisements for canine-gastrointestinal products. No fun at all.
The Neighborhood Boy Saga:
Episode 1 – March 2016
Episode 2 – May 2016
Episode 3 – April 2017
Episode 4 – June 2017
[Top image of a Banded Diacope, (Jardine, William (1843) Fishes of the Perch Family, Naturalist’s Library, vol. XXXVIII, Edinburgh, Scotland: W. H. Lizars) found here.]
Fang Blenny
I presume that’s the skull of a fang blennie, and one species injects an opioid venom to mess with their predators’ brains.
The fang blennies have, generally speaking, evolved into rascals. Their ancestor probably used its fangs to scoop flesh out of bigger fish, much like the non-venomous bluestriped fang blenny does today. It’s a visual mimic of a cleaner fish, which allows it to get in close without raising an alarm. Then it strikes. “A total asshole move, of course, since that bigger fish is going to take this out on the next innocent cleaner wrasse it encounters,” says biologist and study co-author Bryan Fry of the University of Queensland.
“Smelt ya comin’ a mile away.”
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 