Was listening to a documentary on R4 yesterday which informed me that the politically correct term for a Starfish is now a Sea Star.

Take me screaming and kicking to the cells but that just aint right they will always be starfish to me and any kids I may have the good fortune to acquire over the coming years.

BTW - I know they aren't really fish as well!

Well, at least it´s a better name than the Bone Eating Snot Flower (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1595324,00.html) :hmm:

I was listening to the same, wondering how on earth or in the ocean, that debate came about?:confused: :confused:

Any takers??

Well, at least it´s a better name than the Bone Eating Snot Flower - Which is marginally better than the Snot Eating Bone Flower.

One just hopes no one mentions some kind of sweets :} :}

Well us edumacated peeps calls em Echinoderms,they is a kind of Sea Urchin that hasn't been sown up properly thus just sort of flop open.
:cool:
Just a mo!,Urchins hint at a deprived childhood, we can't have that!! from hensforth they will be known as Sea socialy excludedins in all official documents.
:uhoh:

Parapunter - yeah same here, how on earth did the debate start - must be a whole load of starfish jokes out there I don't know - nearly crashed me car at the time.

BTW that woman surely must be a bit odd studying one type of starfish (or sea star for the PC brigade) for 10 years.

Echinoderms - I thought they were hedgehogs from Dunnunda.


Pub quiz question: Can you name a creature with five limbs?

A starfish.

I guess I'll never be able to use that question again now.

No one thinks they are called Echindas(sp?),strange critters, as they all tend to be in Oz.
:rolleyes:

In a similar vein to the Bone Eating Snot Flower there is an algae with the scientific name Didymosphenia Geminata.

It is more commonly known as Rock Snot.

:E The local Fart bush (Breynia stipitata) will never have it's name changed.

Reminds me of the people who insist on the Fruit Bat being called a Flying Fox, presumably because its related to foxes. :hmm: :rolleyes: I never saw a fox fly or hang upside down in a tree on it's own accord.

>I never saw a fox fly

You'll be claiming next that you've never seen a pig fly, or a horse fly . . . .
I've even seen a house fly. Even time flies!

tempus fujit

Time flies.



well, someone had to do it

Shouldn't it be called "The Ocean Star"?





...and what about the eral name of the chocolate variety? :}

Trouser flies (as opposed to trouser snakes....) :}

Yer right OtC.

Chocolate Sea Star doesn't quite sound right :E

But who was the Sea star that officially complained about being called a Starfish?

I believe it was one of them Clown fish..........they're always sticking their noses in where they aren't wanted.

So where do jellyfish fit in? Or whas that covered earlier - am a bit tired!!

Jellyfish......them spineless bastards.