It’s Friday, so here’s something scientific to fill your time until you can run off home. the following is a list of items from a manuscript I was reading last week. Can you guess what they are?
- Heart & Dart
- Ingrailed Clay
- Square-spot Rustic
- Large Yellow Underwing
- Hebrew Character
- The Uncertain
- Common Rustic
- The Dun-bar
- Yellow-line Quaker
- The Chestnut
- The Snout
- Small Fan-foot
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Marks will be deducted for the right answer, so if you know what hey are, then don’t spoil it by revealing all.
Some of them would make great pub names. Anyone for a drink in “The Uncertain”?
Minor parties contesting the upcoming general election?
“I used to be an Uncertain voter myself but having succumbed to the appeal of the Hebrew Characters in 2005 I’ll probably end up supporting Snout.”
Some of them sound like obscure butterflies – underwing, fanfoot, two sorts of rustic. Others could be race horses – only Google will tell.
Heart and Dart…Hall and Oates…obscure bands, shirley?
Little known fact: Square-spot Rustic and Common Rustic were both formed by members of The Wurzels, after they were thrown out for artistic differences.
Ooh, is there a new X-Men coming out?!
Cockney rhyming slang, me ol’ china:
They are all developmental genes in
DrosophilaSophophora melanogaster. Especially “Ingrailed clay” – the name’s a dead giveaway.Possibly.
Bloody markup language.
Drosophila, of course.I also thought butterflies. Or flowers…but they can’t be flowers, because flowers wouldn’t be called Chestnut, because that’s already a tree… Hmmm.
Moths
Bora looses points for getting he correct answer. 🙂
My second guess was going to be “Victorian euphemisms for naughty acts”.