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Key quote: The jellyfish, of the family Coeloplana, has its mouth on its underside and its anus wrapped around its brain.

(Thanks to annette gaudreau)

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[billinbossier]

There are some people in my office that are like that...not including management.

[Mot the Hoople]

I know a lot of politicians with their anuses wrapped around their brains.

[Not My Usual Alias]

Billinbossier --
Yep. Nothing like that in management. We all love management are are constantly dazzled by their brilliant decisions.

[Not My Usual Alias]

Sorry... replace first "are" with "we"

Need coffee. Wait. The coffee machine was taken away in the last wave of cutbacks.

[Siouxie]

Shit for brains.

OH and Good morning!!!

[pogo]

Yup, waaaaaaaay too easy.

[Cat R]

Dr Gershwin said it was the 159th species she had found, and would be named after Dr Russell Reichelt, chief executive of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

He he. A little retribution for past wrongs? Do tell.

[Lairbo]

Dr. Gershwin: I've found a new species and we're naming it after you!

Dr. Reichelt: Oh, really? What is it?

Dr. Gershwin: It's a tiny jellyfish that can't swim, is an evolutionary dead-end, isn't very good at being a jellyfish and looks like snot. I found it right after sneezing in my backyard. Wanna see it?

Dr. Reichelt: I think your research has too much of a negative impact on the environment and I'm cancelling your program to reduce our carbon footprint.

Dr. Gershwin: Crikey!

[Ernie G]

UPDATE:

Cancel that bulletin. It really was a piece of snot. A booger, actually. These have been widely reported in the literature.

[Religion]

"Evolutionary dead end" *snork* Science is s naive.

[Science]

OOoooooo, Religion knows all the answers. So if you're so smart, why don't you tell us what's really going on with the snot jelly? Hmmm? Hmmm?

Yup, that's what we thought.

[KJP]

Her name was Lisa, she was a scientist
She was studying seahorse, and was getting bored, of course
So her eyes drifted down to the seagrass
As she made a silent wish that she'd find a jellyfish
Then something like a splat
Gooey yet kinda flat
Showed up and caused the doctor to yell, "What! Is! That!"

It's the Coelo (co!)
Coeloplana (loplana!)
The newest species south of Havana (ew!)
The Coelo (co!)
Coeloplana (loplana!)
Brain in its anus and soon to be famous, the Coelo...

[frodolives]

KJP, that was just wrong...

[padraig]

"The jellyfish, of the family Coeloplana, has its mouth on its underside and its anus wrapped around its brain."

I went to high school with that dude. Always trying to sit at my lunch table...

[Margaritaville]

"Yew anus-brained jellyfish!!" is my new favorite insult.

[Siouxie]

*snork* & applause @ KJP!

*smacks* KJP for the earwig!

[The Dread Pirate Chris]

The jellyfish will be studied further before it is described and submitted to a peer reviewed journal.

What is the journal going to do with with a dead-end snotfish? Shouldn't they leave it in the tank where they found it?

[Lairbo]

*snork* @ KJP.

[Cat R]

Earwig! Horrible, horrible, (funny) horrible, horrible earwig!!!

[Lairbo]

Scene: The dimly lit study of the Coeloplana Family compound in Lake Tahoe.

Consigliari: Don Coeloplana, we have a problem with your son, Russell Reichelt Coeloplana.

Don Coeloplana, sighing: What is it this time?

Consigliari: Well, he can't swim and he looks like snot. He's an embarrassment to the whole species.

Don Coeloplana: He's a good son but a lousy jellyfish.

Consigliari: You want we should whack him?

Don Coeloplana: Nah, he's an evolutionary dead-end, let Darwin take care of it.

[Kibby F5™]

It may be TOOOO EEASSSSY!

... butt it's not beneith us!

[Kathybear]

If it were beneath us, it might be a bit too messy... Just sayin'