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Creature Feature 44
It's a colonial cnidarian of purplish color found on sand and mud bottoms with its bulb stuck into the bottom
Ummm would that be the artist formerly know as Prince Dr Bill???
CREATURE FEATURE - Cool Trivia!!
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Posted 02 March 2006 - 04:19 PM
Ummm would that be the artist formerly know as Prince Dr Bill???
Which end is up?
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Posted 02 March 2006 - 04:47 PM
How about a Christmas Tree Coral?
Wow... this one is still stumping the stars!
Hawk!! Help!
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Posted 02 March 2006 - 05:48 PM
Another set of clues: if you were a young guy, you wouldn't want to be called this... but if you were a young girl, you might appreciate a young boy giving you one!
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Posted 02 March 2006 - 05:49 PM
a PANSY! Ok, that's not it, I'll keep looking!
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 02 March 2006 - 08:24 PM
It can't be a Rose anenome can it? Those attach to rocks instead of digging a bulb into the sand right? And the whole blinding predators has me thrown for a loop!
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 02 March 2006 - 10:11 PM
a PANSY! Ok, that's not it, I'll keep looking!
Hey, you got that clue right... now just complete it!!!
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Posted 02 March 2006 - 10:53 PM
you are working my mini-biology brain into over drive! 
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 22 March 2006 - 07:47 PM
drbill - the answer was a Sea Pansy, correct? Looks like we lost the post of your newest critter we were researching. Could you repost your clues? I am in need of a sea critter challenge!!
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 22 March 2006 - 09:32 PM
without seeing Bill's previous clues, I'm guessing that the "creature" in question is some sort of kelp... (based, at least, on what I remember of the clues provided...)
"They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep."
Psalms 107:23-24
Psalms 107:23-24
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Posted 22 March 2006 - 10:46 PM
You have a better memory than me then David. But see I'm old and water logged.....lol drbill - where are you??
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 22 March 2006 - 11:28 PM
OMG... you actually think I can remember anything from over a week ago? I don't even have a clue what creature I was thinking of, much less what the clues were. I was off in Washington EDC for Jim's funeral, which was like being in another world... come to think of it, it is another world.
I felt totally validated when one of the other pallbearers began talking to me. He is a senior partner in the firm that just won the $640 million lawsuit against the company that makes Blackberries. He said he wished he'd followed his passion like I have instead of remaining stuck in his law practice most of his life. I never had a chance to ask him what his passion was.
If only I could remember what creature it was... I think my memory was wiperd out along with SD's.
Wait a minute... the wonders of randomly firing neurons. Speaking of which I stayed with Jim's GF in WDC. I kept trying to think of the name of the girl from her college that I dated my senior year. We poured through her college's face book without success. Then at 2:15 Tues morning I awoke with her name!
Now I've got it... the clues were something like this:
Creature Feature 45
You may have had close encounters with this "creature" if you have done any of the following:
1. had a beer today
2. had ice cream
3. brushed your teeth
4. baked a cake
5. frosted the cake
6. shampoo'ed your hair
7. read a newspaper, magazine or book
8. had a salad with dressing
9. painted your home
PS- I wasn't teasing, I couldn't remember what it was when I started writing this post but then the nerves started firing
I felt totally validated when one of the other pallbearers began talking to me. He is a senior partner in the firm that just won the $640 million lawsuit against the company that makes Blackberries. He said he wished he'd followed his passion like I have instead of remaining stuck in his law practice most of his life. I never had a chance to ask him what his passion was.
If only I could remember what creature it was... I think my memory was wiperd out along with SD's.
Wait a minute... the wonders of randomly firing neurons. Speaking of which I stayed with Jim's GF in WDC. I kept trying to think of the name of the girl from her college that I dated my senior year. We poured through her college's face book without success. Then at 2:15 Tues morning I awoke with her name!
Now I've got it... the clues were something like this:
Creature Feature 45
You may have had close encounters with this "creature" if you have done any of the following:
1. had a beer today
2. had ice cream
3. brushed your teeth
4. baked a cake
5. frosted the cake
6. shampoo'ed your hair
7. read a newspaper, magazine or book
8. had a salad with dressing
9. painted your home
PS- I wasn't teasing, I couldn't remember what it was when I started writing this post but then the nerves started firing
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Posted 22 March 2006 - 11:59 PM
OK I think this is it. This is a sea pansy, Renilla renifonnis. I have to admit I googled this. It really had me intregued.
sea pansy, fleshy, leaf-shaped colony of marine organisms belonging to the genus Renilla in the same phylum as the jellyfish. The colony consists of a stalk formed by a large organism called a primary polyp (see polyp and medusa polyp) that is thrust into soft bottom material; the upper part of the stalk is composed of several kinds of secondary polyps. Sea pansies are handsome creatures; the reddish to purple upper stalk is studded with white polyps and is brilliantly luminescent. The colonies occur in the warmer regions of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Sea pansies are classified in the phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, order Pennatulacea.
So did I get it?
If this realy goes into a beer I think I need to wash my mouth out with rum!!
sea pansy, fleshy, leaf-shaped colony of marine organisms belonging to the genus Renilla in the same phylum as the jellyfish. The colony consists of a stalk formed by a large organism called a primary polyp (see polyp and medusa polyp) that is thrust into soft bottom material; the upper part of the stalk is composed of several kinds of secondary polyps. Sea pansies are handsome creatures; the reddish to purple upper stalk is studded with white polyps and is brilliantly luminescent. The colonies occur in the warmer regions of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Sea pansies are classified in the phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, order Pennatulacea.
So did I get it?
If this realy goes into a beer I think I need to wash my mouth out with rum!!
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Posted 23 March 2006 - 12:04 AM
Piz - it was a Sea Pansy. The clues in the post right above yours are for a new sea critter drbill is trying to stump us with! DavidEvans has put in a clue. Help us out!!??Yeah!
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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Posted 23 March 2006 - 12:16 AM
Yeah!
Hmmm OK now I feel like a twit!!
I went back and had a look and you are right this was answered (by you I might add) I feel like such a muppet 
Ok so where is the new "creature"? I can see drbill's clues but not the origonal post.
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Posted 23 March 2006 - 12:26 AM
LOL You are NOT a twit! Because of the lossage of the last week of posts, it's likely you picked up his last clue and responded before seeing my response! Besides your answer was way my detailed including a coolio pick - weird looking critter! Since drbill's post was lost, I asked him to repost. His helped us out by posting from memory a list of numbered clues.
Now I've got it... the clues were something like this:
You may have had close encounters with this "creature" if you have done any of the following:
1. had a beer today
2. had ice cream
3. brushed your teeth
4. baked a cake
5. frosted the cake
6. shampoo'ed your hair
7. read a newspaper, magazine or book
8. had a salad with dressing
9. painted your home
It's Winter time - you know you're a diver when you're scraping ice off your windshield INSIDE your vehicle...!
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
Once in a while, it is good to step back, take a breath, and remember to be humble. You'll never know it all - ScubaDadMiami. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve - Lao-tzu. One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him - Chinese Proverb.
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