Since Shetha commented:
Actually, technically, planarians have something you'd probably best call a "stoma." Single opening for mouth and anus.
As my old high-school biology teacher used to say, "And you think YOU have bad breath when you get up in the morning."*
(Flatworms have a gastrovascular cavity rather than a true gut. In that respect they're also like jellyfish, corals, and sea anemones.)
*(I don't know why but my Gen. Bio. students never seem to think that's funny.)
Also, here I give in to a couple of means, just for kicks and giggles:
bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /
Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you
second meme: List the first five quotes you can think of from movies/tv. Each one has to be from a different show or movie. Used different font colors for the ones where more than one person is speaking. This will show how well and truly lowbrow I am when it comes to film.
1. "'It isn't over until WE say it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?' 'Germans? Pearl Harbor?' '(let it go, he's on a roll)' 'Hell no!'" - Animal House
2. "'Baby clothes.''They got everything here." - Blues Brothers
3. (My current favorite. I'm just looking for an opportunity to use it) "I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Mythbusters
4. "OKLAHOMA! OKLAHOMA! OKLAHOMA!" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (one of my favorite movies, EVER)
5. "That'll do, pig." - Babe
(first runner up: "Beef jerky time!" - Trading Places)
(second runner up: "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges" from Treasure of the Sierra Madre, or rather, in my world, from Blazing Saddles).
It occurs to me that I wind up remembering lines from the more obscure bits of movies. I do not know why "Beef jerky time!" is the only quotation I can really remember from a movie I've seen many times, and that is on my list of "stop clicking around and watch it if it happens to be on television" movies. All I can say is that odd combinations of words seem to catch in my memory. I'm the same way about remembering names of organisms - the scientific names are often much easier for me to pull up out of the murk than the common names are.
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I love those first two quotes. I'll sometimes say 'Baby Clothes!' when I'm trying to say something is really well stocked. My brother and dad get it (since we all used to watch Blues Brothers together), but most other people don't.
Following up on the comment you left me, Caleb and I were fifth graders in 1990-1991. His elementary school went up to sixth grade, so he was still in elementary school in 1991-1992, but I was in middle school then.
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