Re: Phalon ships = Giant penises!

On Sat, 6 May 2000, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> trapper wrote:
> 
> > >i'd advise listers with access to a decent library to look up
> priapulids;
> > >little wormy things shaped a bit like, erm, well, i'd rather not
> say.
> > 
> > Please, god, don't tell me your little buddy looks anything like
> this:
> > 
> >
http://ucbio21.rvs.uc.edu/freshman/Bio1030/Diverse/Camb/priapulid.htm

thankfully not - the picture in Margulis + Schwartz is much more, er,
lifelike. i would guess that the first one to be identified earned the
name, and then the later discoveries were classified with it on grounds
of
similarity of not-so-evident structure (possible DNA sequences). these
newcomers, as you have observed, don't share their big brother's
distinctive shape.

by the way, though, don't be so quick to judge - not all of the members
of
this list are necessarily human. however, i'm not going to ask our
ambassadorial friend to join this thread just yet :).

> Probably not... but that picture does look like very similar to some
of
> those "funny condoms" :-/

aaah, Sweden :).

tom