With a nod to Jimmy Buffet and his bear.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Davis" <unclescott_at_prodigy.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- PR-friendly common names
> > >From now on, maybe undescribed "cold and slimies" should be given "warm
> and
> > >fuzzy" or "patriotic" common names to serve as a form of public
relations
> > >"protection." Disregard whether these names have any descriptive value
> ...
>
> > >Can you think of others?
>
> How about the American Flagfish. ;)
>
> Mom's madtom
> God's darter
> the apple pie carpsucker
> and the Chevrolet topminnow.
>
> Of course then someone will have to figure out whose Mom, what vision of
> God, which pie recipe and what model topminnow. (Can't have killies
> anymore - they're all killerfish anyway.)
>
> All the best!
>
>
>
>
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