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Hebejeebie (Plantaginaceae-a plant) a member of the Hebe complex; it has caused taxonomists anxiety because its classification is problematic. [Botanical Society of Otago Newsletter 36:10-13]
Uumm, that would be Pot:cool:
 
:D Not to be outdone....hard-working scientists weighed in on a slow day: Think Adam had as much fun naming the animals?

http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/puns/puns.html

These are real scientific names. Really!

Dissup irae (a hard-to-see fossil eremochaetid fly)
Eubetia bigaulae Brown (tortricid moth) pronounced "youbetcha bygolly".
Eurygenius (beetle)
Gelae baen, Gelae belae, Gelae donut, Gelae fish, and Gelae rol (fungus beetles)
Gressittia titsadaysi (horse fly)
Hebejeebie (Plantaginaceae-a plant) a member of the Hebe complex; it has caused taxonomists anxiety because its classification is problematic. [Botanical Society of Otago Newsletter 36:10-13]
Ittibittium (mollusc) These are smaller than molluscs of the genus Bittium.
Notnops, Taintnops, Tisentnops (caponiid spiders) These Chilean spiders were originally placed in the genus Nops, but Platnick separated them into these new genera when he reexamined them.
Cindarella eucalla (trilobite)
 

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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found
traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers in the weeks that followed, in
California an archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and, shortly after,
headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: "California archaeologists have
found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their
ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."

One week later, 'The Muncie Star,' a local newspaper in INDIANA , reported
the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Auburn
(DeKalb County), Indiana , Bobby Mitchell, a self-taught archaeologist,
reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bob has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Indiana had already gone wireless."
 
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