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POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on January 23, 2018, 11:39:36 AM ---I mean I get that animals can be named after people but that guy really just blew his credibility out of the water
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Naming a new species isn't that big of a deal. Biologists discover new stuff all the time, and since the taxonomy has gotten so large and arbitrarily complicated, they just kinda pick whatever they like at this point.
Protein named after sonic the hedgehog:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog
Spider named after Frank Zappa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachygnatha_zappa
Asteroid named after Freddie Mercury:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/06/492841113/asteroid-named-for-freddie-mercury-is-announced-on-his-birthday
Juncoph:
alongside what seventh said, taxonomic naming has always been a simple description of the animal. homo sapien = wise man, as an example
it may be silly, but the logic behind the name was based off of a minor resemblance to Annoying Orange's hair which the moth /does/ have
Drydess:
if i find a new orange and black species of an insect im gonna name it hillaryclintonus
Conan:
--- Quote from: Drydess on January 24, 2018, 12:49:06 PM ---if i find a new orange and black species of an insect im gonna name it hillaryclintonus
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and then when it goes extinct you'll write a book called "What Happened"
Acerblock:
Say what you will about political views, but holy damn, the Democrats are the weakest political party I have ever seen.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/senate-democrats-drop-daca-from-budget-negotiations.html