Today's Mystery - Can You Guess What It Is?

[Evo]

Wasn't it Persephone that had to spend a a month each year for every pomegranate seed she ate while in Hades? Which explains winter.

 

[rewebster]

"Persephone (Proserpine) was a daughter of Zeus and the Greek fertility goddess
Demeter (Ceres). Hades (Pluto) condemned Persephone to eternity in the underworld,
because she had eaten the forbidden fruit (pomegranate seeds). She was allowed to
return to the surface of the Earth for part of the year. Persephone was also
a personification of spring."

 

[Gokul43201]

Yes, it was Persephone. She was the Ancient Greeks' groundhog!

 

[Kurdt]

Surely the groundhog myth is the modern day persephone.

 

[rewebster]

well, she could stay at my place in my spare bedroom for those couple of months while she wasn't in hell

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There ya' go Evo, you win one week in Hell (California)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_California

 

[Kurdt]

That has to be the best opening sentence of any wikipedia article ever.

 

[SpaceTiger]

A bit of etymological trivia about the pomegranate: most everyone knows that the word is derived from the latin pomum granatum (apple with many seeds), through the late French pomme grenade (which, doubtless, you are all aware was the origin of the word 'grenade')

Obviously. I mean, what kind of people wouldn't know these things? People with no idea of what's important, that's who! I want to picket these people...

...and I'll smear the signs with pomegranate juice. Now that would be hard-hitting, like a Wolf Blitzer newsbreak on Easter Sunday.

 

[SpaceTiger]

Today's "What is it?". Can anyone quess? If you ask, I will give hints.

Perhaps we should preface each of these challenges with an "Is this something?" poll.

 

[rewebster]

My parents took us to Hell on vacation when we visited my grandparents when I was a kid





(on the way to the Colorado River).

 

[Moonbear]

A bit of etymological trivia about the pomegranate: most everyone knows that the word is derived from the latin pomum granatum (apple with many seeds), through the late French pomme grenade (which, doubtless, you are all aware was the origin of the word 'grenade'), but how many of you know that the botanical name of the pomegranate tree (Punica granatum) is the only biological name that has one specific type of bad grammar - the gender of the adjective does not agree with the gender of the noun (it should instead be Punica granata)?

Did you take the useless trivia quiz yet? Or should we just start calling you Cliff?

 

[rewebster]

or Punicum granatum

 

[Gokul43201]

That would work too, but wouldn't be the preferred choice. Most plants are named with genera that are feminine (the Ancient Romans thought of plants as feminine), but there are many cases of neuter (any alpinum) and masculine (asteriscus) genera.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/4986/seashotvz6.jpg

 

[neutrino]

An active volcano as captured with, say... a UV-filter of some sort.

 

[matthyaouw]

Bioluminescent bacteria (Dinoflagellates?) forming a 'milky sea'. I remember reading an article about that picture before.

 

[Mk]

My parents took us to Hell on vacation when we visited my grandparents when I was a kid

My parents took us to Hell on vacation! But it was Hell, Michigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan

 

[rewebster]

My parents took us to Hell on vacation! But it was Hell, Michigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan

Parents in perspective can be pretty funny once in a while, can't they---my, my...my

I guess that there's a choice (free will) then:

MI: "people watch for Hell to "freeze over"

CA: "Hell has been referenced when it is especially hot"


Evo, your choice, where do you want to go?

 

[rewebster]

Ivan---

is that a big, giant dead seahorse?

 

[Gokul43201]

Ivan---

is that a big, giant dead seahorse?

One that died after eating all the dinoflagellates?

PS: I thought you said 'sea monkey'. Seahorses don't like the taste of bacteria.

 

[rewebster]

One that died after eating all the dinoflagellates?

PS: I thought you said 'sea monkey'. Seahorses don't like the taste of bacteria.

IF if is a big, dead seahorse (or monkey)---did it get that big from eating 'DINO' size flagellates?

 

[Gokul43201]

I've done some research on this now, and it turns out you were right the first time. He was a seahorse (a lonely, magic seahorse, named Snuff), and at first, he really didn't like how the flagellates tasted (like 3-month old cedar, with a hink of oak, and way too much salt, he used to complain), but after eating a few million, he found that they grew on him.

 

[rewebster]

Poor Snuffy (sniff, sniff,)----I wonder if they made glue or dog food out of him?

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(There's been a lot of weird animals Evo-luting around Madagascar)

 

[billiards]

I demand a geomorphological interpretation.

 

[rewebster]

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Monkey

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Bioluminescent bacteria (Dinoflagellates?) forming a 'milky sea'. I remember reading an article about that picture before.

The [once mythical] milky sea is correct. As for the cause, we don't really know.

...The problem with the bacteria hypothesis is that an extremely high concentration of bacteria must exist before they begin to produce light," Miller told LiveScience. "But what could possibly support the occurrence of such a large population?" [continued]

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=92564

 

[Gokul43201]

Here's a fresh one (some details obscured to reduce Googlability):

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6360/names2pb2.jpg

What is it?

 

[Kurdt]

Thats got to be the Eiffel tower.

 

[Gokul43201]

Correct again! Can you elaborate?

 

[Kurdt]

The Eiffel tower has the names of famous French people around it, mainly scientists and engineers.

 

[Gokul43201]

The names engraved on the Tower, as a tribute gesture from Gustave Eiffel to the world of scientists, disappeared during one of its paintings at the turn of the century and were re-established in 1986 - 87.

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/savants.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Bad Wolf

What is it? [Integral not allowed to answer]

 

[Moonbear]

Bad Wolf

What is it? [Integral not allowed to answer]

A trick question? No picture.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A trick question? No picture.

No picture. In fact posting a picture would be quite a challenge!

 

[Kurdt]

Butterfly egg.

 

[rewebster]

Butterfly egg.

that's not a close guess-----











very GOOD--that IS it---I wasn't expecting it that quickly--I guess my hints didn't help though

a close guess will do for this game/test (gamete)-----hint: 2 O 's base(ball =sphere) = oosphere= egg

 

[Kurdt]

I have no clue what your hint is referring to, but then again I'm an idiot.

 

[B. Elliott]

Dag nabbit. I thought it was an insects egg but the clue threw me off.

 

[Evo]

It's icky.

 

[edward]

It's icky.

I googled images of iky stuff and didn't see it.

 

[rootX]

Shuttlecock!