A Very Important Decision
Last night I went to a lovely New Year's Eve party co-hosted by zellandyne. The other hosts had a pond full of koi out back. The sight of the largish fish darting around the shadowy pool got me thinking (always a dangerous situation).
We all know that, as humans, we have some common ancestors. Mitochondrial Eve was not that long ago, and before her all mammals, all vertebrates even, almost certainly descended from a single pair of highly successful -- in evolutionary terms -- fish. Those fish were, let's face it, not all that bright, and they most certainly didn't get named by their equally un-bright parents.
So watching the koi sometime after midnight, I decided to name those long-ago aqueous ancestors of ours Butch and Gladys. And since we don't know the the exact dates when they hatched, I'm declaring January 1st to be Butch and Gladys Day.
Happy Butch and Gladys Day, everyone!
As you were....
We all know that, as humans, we have some common ancestors. Mitochondrial Eve was not that long ago, and before her all mammals, all vertebrates even, almost certainly descended from a single pair of highly successful -- in evolutionary terms -- fish. Those fish were, let's face it, not all that bright, and they most certainly didn't get named by their equally un-bright parents.
So watching the koi sometime after midnight, I decided to name those long-ago aqueous ancestors of ours Butch and Gladys. And since we don't know the the exact dates when they hatched, I'm declaring January 1st to be Butch and Gladys Day.
Happy Butch and Gladys Day, everyone!
As you were....