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Lizard Named For Jim Morrison
ColdWetDog writes "The LA Times has a quick article on a newly named giant lizard: 'An ancient plant eating lizard that looked like an iguana but was closer in size to a German shepherd has been named after Jim Morrison, the late troubled and charismatic lead singer of the Doors.The lizard's name was chosen by Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a hard-core Doors fan since college.' Hunter S. Thompson, who hallucinated presumably somewhat more carnivorous lounge lizards, was also considered for the honor."
Nice summary, it doesn't even mention the actual name. (Barbaturex morissoni)
Someday, when humans are dead and gone, Jim Morrison's legacy will continue to live on.
That doesn't compare to the Jefferson Starships.
Legions of Doors fans flocked to the lizard's gravesite, although many believed the lizard was not really dead.
Nice summary, it doesn't even mention the actual name. (Barbaturex morissoni)
... I guess that still sounds better than Jim Morrison, the dung beetle
Damn you autocorrect!
Even in extinction it still faces persecution.
Have gnu, will travel.
I thought Bill Gates made a pretty good lizard. Cold, calculating, unblinking.
Remember the incident when someone threw a pie in his face? He thought about his response and decided the person who threw it, in addition to not liking Gates and Microsoft, was also trying to get PR for his country's pastries (Belgium I think). So Gates said: "The worst part of it was that it didn't taste very good."
You are forgetting another obvious candidate, Leisure Suit Larry. After all he did have an adventure in the land of the lounge lizards. I for one would welcome a lizard classified as Basiliscus Lafferi.
Monstar L
Mr. Mojo Risin' would have been much better!
Doors fans aren't made, they are born.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xillqqt0Y0
I have a suspicion that a lot of the under 50 crowd (especially under 25) just asked themselves who is "Jim Morrison"? He was the controversial lead singer of the "The Doors", who died fairly young under mysterious conditions (although it was probably drugs) that made many wonder if he was really dead. He was also known as "The Lizard King", hence the naming today. While I enjoyed several songs by "The Doors", personally I never understood the whole worship of Jim Morrison and found it pretty repulsive, but as always, you the reader are left to your own opinion.
Here you go:
Jim Morrison
Popular song that has been covered often:
People are Strange
One of lesser known songs:
Chrystal Ship
Steve Taylor's music video expressing his puzzlement of what happened to Morrison and how his life turned out:
Jim Morrison's Grave
From the article:
"There was no ice at the polls, no glaciers, and a lot more carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere."
Dear editors, please do something to stop the spread of typoitis. This terrible disease continues to horrify the grammar nazis among us and I've had it with their moaning.
Fuck Beta
'Barbaturex' means 'bearded king,' and Morrison called himself the Lizard King, so this was perfect
If that doesn't make sense, read the lyrics of "The Celebration Of The Lizard" and you'll understand it all
Can we now dispense with the idea that the entire Linnaean Taxonomy is anything other than a subjective human construct? We can put this beside the "species" named after the Sonic the Hedgehog character.
For obscure reasons, I spent a lot of time under the misapprehension I was taught that this hierarchical collection of (formerly) officious-sounding Latin names represented "the way reality really is". It doesn't represent that at all. It represents some guys (and referring to them as "scientists" means nothing to this issue) naming stuff based on largely-arbitrary criteria.
is Horse Latitudes. When the still sea conspires an armor, And her sullen and aborted currents breed tiny monsters, TRUE SAILING IS DEAD! Awkward instant, and the first animal is jettisoned. Legs furiously pumping Their stiff green gallop And heads bob up Poise Delicate Pause Consent In mute nostril agony Carefully refined And sealed over
Crawlin' King Snake