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Fri Apr-15-05 11:49 AM
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a slime beetle naming update

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/04/mai05102.html

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Subject: Beetles Named After Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld

Re: "New Slime-Mold Beetles Named for Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Entomologists said it was meant as an honor. Yeah, okay (wink wink). 4/14"

You all missed the joke, including Newsday. The genus "Agathidium" is in the family of beetles Staphylinidae - the common name for this group of beetles is "rove beetles" ... Karl Rove ... Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld ... now do you get it....?

see: http://www.spuriousgeorge.com/sg_monkeytroop.html

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