• blarghly
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      11 months ago

      Well I guess you don’t expect your kids to be high achievers…

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        I grow those! Now I have no idea what the PC name for them is. (Which is weird because the Wandering Jew is basically mythology, nothing against Jews.)

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          The name has, for good reasons, fallen out of fashion. “Inch plant” is what I’ve heard recently.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew

          Various types of plants are called by the common name “wandering Jew”, apparently because of these plants’ ability to resist gardener’s attempt to prevent them from “wandering over the earth until the second coming of Christ” (see Wandering Jew (disambiguation) § Plants). In 2016, to avoid anti-Semitism, the name “wandering dude” to describe Tradescantia has been proposed in an online plant community by Pedram Navid, instead of “Wandering Jew” and “silver inch plant”.[83] [84][85][86]

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      11 months ago

      Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, get my vote.

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    My baby will be called Compressed Flapworth and no woke liberal snowflake will stop me!

  • PineRune
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    11 months ago

    Cheeseweed would probably be the coolest kid in school, ngl.

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    Sarcastic Fringehead and Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker, go clean your rooms! And stop teasing your little sister Common Cockchafer.

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    There really is a screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus). The name comes from its squealing when you pick it up.

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      That name seems a little weirder in context.

      It’s like calling a species of wild pig the “Bleeding Black Hog” because of how it reacts to being shot.

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        There is that meme floating around about a salmon learning that named a color after them. I’m sure there are a ton of other examples.

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    Great, you’ve made my son cry. Now I’ll have to make pancakes in the morning for Tufted Titmouse.

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      11 months ago

      He just needs a hug from his mother, Great Tit.

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    11 months ago

    Honestly, Hellbender is badass

    Bender would be too

    Or even Hell