Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Pipefish Whisperer

Kitty: So what's the origin of the name "The Seahorse Whisperer"?

A-L: It's a play on the very popular and much over-used verbal trick of adding "Whisperer" after an animal's name. Like "The Horse Whisperer" or "The Dog Whisperer". It indicates a person's ability to charm/tame/understand/train said animal.

Kitty: Psst, don't talk to me like I'm an imbecile.

A-L: Morgan's studying evolutionary biology, and concentrating her work on seahorses and pipefish.

Kitty: And Pipefish Whisperer doesn't sound as good.

2 comments:

Emma said...

And plus. Everyone KNOWS pipefish are hard of hearing.

Anonymous said...

And, they spite the Syngnathidae family for their protestant and Lutheran-Republican views. God helps us all!

 
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