Please forgive this post. It contains more juvenile references to balls. We can't seem to help ourselves.
Some great friends of ours gave Addie Sea Monkeys for her birthday a few months back. In case you don't know (I didn't) sea monkeys are basically brine shrimp, which you can grow from dry eggs in a miniature aquarium. They are very tiny at first--you need to use a magnifying glass to see them--but they quickly grow to be the size of, oh, I don't know, cut fingernails (ew). Addie was very excited about the whole process: the sterilization of the water, the growing of the eggs, the feeding of the shrimp. She would frequently monitor the progress of the shrimp throughout the day.
Of course, Addie has spaghetti arms like her mama (and is about as graceful) and so accidentally knocked our new sea monkey friends all over the floor one morning. Big, big tears. Like good, dutiful, indulgent parents, we ordered her another packet of the monkeys.
Everything has gone swimmingly so far. Except, unlike the first batch, the second batch contained one particularly ambitious little shrimp, who is now a big shrimp, because he ate all of his little brine shrimp buddies. So, instead of sea monkeys, we have sea monkey. Introducing, Grande:
It's not easy to photograph a floating clipped fingernail, by the way. Kudos to Eric for capturing this shot of Grande, in all of his briny glory.
What you probably can't see is that Grande is distinguished not just by his size and appetite but by the fact that he appears to have a sizable, remarkable, slightly revolting set of cojones. Balls. Brine shrimp nuggets. Meat sacks.
I mean, we know they're probably not balls. What would a brine shrimp do with balls? Maybe they're fins, or nubbins that will someday grow into legs (yay, evolution!). Or decorative nodules. But, to us, they look like balls.
In any case, let this be an introduction to our newest family member. Eric is particularly excited you're here, little buddy, as now there is another male (we think) in the house. Welcome, Grande.
Some great friends of ours gave Addie Sea Monkeys for her birthday a few months back. In case you don't know (I didn't) sea monkeys are basically brine shrimp, which you can grow from dry eggs in a miniature aquarium. They are very tiny at first--you need to use a magnifying glass to see them--but they quickly grow to be the size of, oh, I don't know, cut fingernails (ew). Addie was very excited about the whole process: the sterilization of the water, the growing of the eggs, the feeding of the shrimp. She would frequently monitor the progress of the shrimp throughout the day.
Of course, Addie has spaghetti arms like her mama (and is about as graceful) and so accidentally knocked our new sea monkey friends all over the floor one morning. Big, big tears. Like good, dutiful, indulgent parents, we ordered her another packet of the monkeys.
Everything has gone swimmingly so far. Except, unlike the first batch, the second batch contained one particularly ambitious little shrimp, who is now a big shrimp, because he ate all of his little brine shrimp buddies. So, instead of sea monkeys, we have sea monkey. Introducing, Grande:
It's not easy to photograph a floating clipped fingernail, by the way. Kudos to Eric for capturing this shot of Grande, in all of his briny glory.
What you probably can't see is that Grande is distinguished not just by his size and appetite but by the fact that he appears to have a sizable, remarkable, slightly revolting set of cojones. Balls. Brine shrimp nuggets. Meat sacks.
I mean, we know they're probably not balls. What would a brine shrimp do with balls? Maybe they're fins, or nubbins that will someday grow into legs (yay, evolution!). Or decorative nodules. But, to us, they look like balls.
In any case, let this be an introduction to our newest family member. Eric is particularly excited you're here, little buddy, as now there is another male (we think) in the house. Welcome, Grande.
Brine shrimp are known for their elaborate ball sacks. This is common knowledge. This explains the related oxymoron: Jumbo Shrimp.
ReplyDeleteThis pleases me to no end. Brine shrimp balls. Hilarious.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it's a big egg sack, did you think of that? Maybe it's BigMama!
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