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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.
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!
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
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
Names are arbitrary. Names are conventions. The word "fire" is no more appropriate to design fire than "fuego", "feu", "Feuer", "tann", "ignis", "pyros", etc. Taxonomy has gone through some turmoil these latter decades in its branches (the advances in genetics are but one of the factors involved) but the way of naming species (the leaves of the tree) is still relevant. It may sound arbitrary to you, but it just carries cultural history, and why the hell not? Look up "psephophorus terrypratchetti" for another example.
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