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Title: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on December 14, 2010, 10:51:50 PM
Lol well sort of, a friend posted this tidbit of information on my facebook page :)

Info:
http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Fungi/Pleosporomycetidae_Subclass.asp

Pics:
http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Fungi/Pleosporales_Order.asp

Hmm I could have sworn my Pleo's weren't fungi... ;D
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: Crewella on December 15, 2010, 02:44:25 AM
They're pretty fun guys to have around, though!   :P



*sorry*  :-[

Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on December 15, 2010, 03:22:54 AM
*giggles* It's getting crowded at my place, there's not mushroom left  ;D
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: Crewella on December 15, 2010, 03:34:15 AM
ROFL!  I feel much better now - thanks!  ;D :P


*They'll be OK as long as there's no old spores to settle................*  :-X
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: kat on December 15, 2010, 05:22:56 AM
Hehehe.... ;D
You guys are so funny. :D
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: 91/23Class on December 15, 2010, 09:39:51 AM
I must say, I've really taken a lichen to this...

(OK, not very good, but all the obvious ones had been used!)
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: mweed on December 15, 2010, 10:28:47 AM
Well, these types of jokes do grow on you...
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: degers on December 15, 2010, 10:34:01 AM
Pleo- is a scientific prefix.  It is similar to the meaning "many".  For instance a pleomorphic organism may go through many different structural stages during it's life, such as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: 91/23Class on December 15, 2010, 10:58:18 AM
wow, that is interesting, I wonder why that particular prefix was used for Pleo, possibly because of the multiple stages, i.e hatching, infant, juvenile...?
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: allosaurus on December 15, 2010, 12:31:50 PM
wow, that is interesting, I wonder why that particular prefix was used for Pleo, possibly because of the multiple stages, i.e hatching, infant, juvenile...?

I see a mini-lecture opportunity!  :rootbeer:

I had heard that Pleo was called after the Pliosaurs (I've now almost abandoned this idea).
Which makes no sense, because Pliosaurs were marine reptiles related to the Plesiosaurs, and Pleo is (supposed to be...) a Camarasaurus, which is obviously a dinosaur (furthermore, a Macronarian).
Now you understand why I've almost abandoned that idea. :P
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on December 15, 2010, 02:39:18 PM
Anyone remember Personal Life Enhancing Organism, it's just a fun coincidence that Pleo also means something else I'm sure :)
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: RedwoodsMama on December 15, 2010, 07:45:32 PM
 IMR, I just read your last post and I almost read the wrong thing... %) WHOOPS...embarrased by that one...I do remember vaguely Personal Life enhancing Orgnaisim, just not in this lifetime I think...My last life I was a Personal life enhancing Orgnaisim, one that walked on four feet instead of two, though I do crawl on all fours when my back is acting up.. LOL, actually my back is so bad sometimes, that I vacuum the rugs crawling on my hands and knees.( no joke on that one.)
 the rest of you guys are so funny with your fungi jokes, no shrooom etc. Guess someone has been upping thier B-12, Ginsing and other natural enhancing brain boosters.                  RedowodsMama
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: 91/23Class on December 16, 2010, 09:30:42 AM
not really RWM, in fact I was actually sad enough to google 'Mushroom jokes' and adapted mine from that, I'm actually terrible at humour %)...
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: InmemoryofRomeo on December 16, 2010, 01:42:18 PM
Aww the mushroom jokes are as old as the hills :P
Title: Re: A real living Pleo has been found!!!
Post by: kat on December 16, 2010, 02:59:42 PM
Why didn't I think of that!  Google Mushroom jokes.  I couldn't come up with anything at the time and so just had to laugh. :)
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