This morning, as I feebly descended our stairway,
en route to, as they say, la salle de bains,
my otherwise-really-not-awake-as-it's-455am-brain says what to me?
Does it wish me good tidings?
No.
Does it tell me, "Yippee! We're gonna have a great day!"
No.
Does it ask me if I slept well?
No.
It says:
radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian
radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian
radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian radiolarian
*sigh*
Apparently, another biological term has been located by the
night shift brain-cleaning crew, found languishing in a corner,
and they are warning me to define & use this word,
or they're going to chuck it.
or they're going to chuck it.
So, now you get to either show off, or learn, or a little of both. =)
Without looking it up, wild guesses encouraged,
What is a radiolarian?
=)
All answers speak well of your bravery, and render you a participant
in this, the human adventure we call life. Congratulations, in advance!!
Correct answers fetch even more glory as you also are, apparently,
also a stunningly bright student of life. Pray submit your comments, below.
Happy Monday!!!
xobb
A radiolarian is one of those people who wear a colander on their head, the better to filter and amplify the messages being broadcast to them from the universe. Duh.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, this image has NOT left my mind, so EVERY TIME I think of the word, I immediately see some intrepid communicator with my pasta strainer shining on their head. =)
DeleteEr... a citizen of the satellite state Radiolar, currently orbiting Earth? Their primary role is to be the source of the transmissions mentioned above? No? Ok, I give up.
ReplyDeletesomething to do with symmetry of the cuttlefish. I think I am saying that either because of the last photo you posted of you or because of some odd fact that lodged in by brain from the Monterey Bay Aquarium or a confused amalgamation of both.
ReplyDeleteHey, I remembered this one right away, from the first section of my Inverts textbook!
ReplyDeleteSpiky, symmetrical marine protozoa.
Then I went and looked it up, and I was more or less right! I'm inordinately pleased by this.
A combination rotifer and hydroid comes to mind. (Why? That part remains unclear...)
ReplyDeleteWell, the Internet tells me they are symmetrical protozoans.
ReplyDeleteMarine amoeba-like things, many of which make symmetrical skeletons.
However, without that technical assistance, I would have guessed a teenager dancing in front of a Bathroom Mirror, singing into a hair-brush "microphone" - on her way to becoming famous.
Denis Wilson