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Hebejeebie

Stuart Fullerton stuartf at PEGASUS.CC.UCF.EDU
Mon Mar 24 08:35:53 CST 2003


ya all made my day

thanks

after a mental bad weekend with the world, twas nice to read  HBJB stuff!.
not being a scholar, not sure how to apply this last it to the world today.

but things in the bug closet work without a radio and without a t.v. so today
will be good!.

cheers!  rof

Adolf Ceska wrote:

> According to the Principle V of the International Code of Botanical
> Nomenclature,
>
> "Scientific names of taxonomic groups are treated as Latin regardless of
> their derivation."
>
> If you read "Hebejeebie" as any classical non-English scholar would (or
> should) you will get
>
> "He-be jeb je", which - unfortunately - in Czech means: "Hebe - f... them!"
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Adolf Ceska, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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