| Author | Content |
dave
Jacksonville, TX
August 28, 2006
01:50 PM Post #2667528
| There are a total of 675 votes:
| Arachnology
(14 votes, 2%) |  |
| Arthropology
(21 votes, 3%) | |
| Entomology
(538 votes, 79%) | |
| Etymology
(46 votes, 6%) | |
| Etomology
(37 votes, 5%) | |
| Exoskeletology
(9 votes, 1%) | |
| Herpetology
(10 votes, 1%) | |
|
Previous Polls |
MollyMc
Archer/Bronson, FL
(Zone 8b)
August 28, 2006
01:56 PM Post #2667545
| I knew that, I've been watching Crossing Jordan (Bug) and CSI Vegas. Both programs have bug guys.
:^))) |
ineedacupoftea
Grand Junction, CO
(Zone 7a)
August 28, 2006
02:54 PM Post #2667718
| Looks like DG folks take the trivial cake. |
Woofens
Dillonvale, OH
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
03:44 PM Post #2667875
| I knew it tooooooo LOL
Janis |
mehera1
Buena Vista, CO
(Zone 5a)
August 28, 2006
04:45 PM Post #2668066
| I'll never forget that course in college and having to make that bug collection! |
senlarrs
Harrisburg, PA
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
04:49 PM Post #2668089
| CSI fan from the 'getgo'!! 9>) |
bigcityal
Menasha, WI
(Zone 5a)
August 28, 2006
05:06 PM Post #2668147
| I think that if you know your etymology than you knew the answer.
spelling correction
This message was edited Aug 28, 2006 12:09 PM |
4paws
Citra, FL
(Zone 9a)
August 28, 2006
05:26 PM Post #2668216
| I'm getting dumber by the minute. Guess I need to get out of the woods and dirt more to re-start my brain. (Or use that fat dictionary right next to me!) |
Dave47
Southern, CT
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
05:58 PM Post #2668333
| Al, Very cute! |
MollieB55
Landrum, SC
(Zone 7b)
August 28, 2006
06:04 PM Post #2668363
| I am a huge CSI fan and earth science major so how about one of the following reasons for my answer?
1. I accidentally hit the wrong key
2. My eyesight is so bad I could not read it properly.
3. Senility has set in. (Most likely correct answer!) |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
06:06 PM Post #2668369
| I knew the answer but I wasn't completely correct, so I changed my vote! I hate to be wrong...
xxxxx, Carrie |
Resin
Northumberland
United Kingdom
(Zone 9a)
August 28, 2006
06:08 PM Post #2668380
| Herpetology is of course the study of her pet snake.
|
MollieB55
Landrum, SC
(Zone 7b)
August 28, 2006
06:09 PM Post #2668388
| 4paws, I, too, have a dictionary right next to me. I have always been a lousy speller. However, my above answer No. 2 explains why I don't use it. I can't find the magnifying glass! |
Nan
SW, WI
(Zone 4b)
August 28, 2006
06:10 PM Post #2668391
| LOL! I'm a big CSI fan, too, but DH never lets me watch it!!
I knew the answer, CSI or not!
DH does watch a lot of Discovery Channel and I do read a lot. (Ü) |
MollieB55
Landrum, SC
(Zone 7b)
August 28, 2006
06:11 PM Post #2668401
| Are all of those real words even? I couldn't find one in dictionary. But, then, as I said, the eyesight is going fast! |
carrielamont
Milton, MA
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
06:11 PM Post #2668402
| Mollie,
Did you know you can vote twice? I do it all the time! OK, not all the time, but when it's something I used to know, or should have known, or along those lines. I mean here's Al, thinking circles around me! We can't have that!
xxxxx, Carrie |
MollieB55
Landrum, SC
(Zone 7b)
August 28, 2006
06:16 PM Post #2668423
| Carrie, That sure works for me! |
grampapa
Wheatfield, NY
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
07:58 PM Post #2668719
| How do we know Al didn't cheat and look it up? How do we know Mrs BigCity didn't look it up for him?
(ok, Dave's right. that was pretty clever)
gram |
MollieB55
Landrum, SC
(Zone 7b)
August 28, 2006
08:11 PM Post #2668748
| grampapa, I am on your side! Being a semi-retired teacher I think with an answer that clever - he had to cheat! :) Never mind the fact that even cheating I could not have come up with that clever answer. Basically, I just visit Dave's place so I can feel stupid. :) |
bigcityal
Menasha, WI
(Zone 5a)
August 28, 2006
08:27 PM Post #2668794
| I actually have spoke with our state entomologist. Etymology is just a term a had heard before - the origin and use of words in very interesting to me. I can't tell you what etomology is though.
Gram - I don't look things up - or read directions - or follow directions. |
ghia_girl
Wichita, KS
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
09:35 PM Post #2668983
| Al - I looked in the dictionary! and I still don't know what etomology is. Can't find it, does anyone know? |
achoogardner
Red Oak, NC
(Zone 7b)
August 28, 2006
10:04 PM Post #2669071
| I LOVE CSI!!!!!!!! Grisom helped me with this one. I watch Crossing Jordan too. My husband of coarse detests them because I crawl right into the show. |
Sashagirl
by the Muddy Miss, IA
(Zone 5a)
August 28, 2006
11:11 PM Post #2669286
| Our Iowa State Entomologist drilled it into our heads in our Master Gardener Class back in '82. I doubt any of us ever forgot it! Ha.
Deanna |
Marianinark
Compton, AR
(Zone 6a)
August 28, 2006
11:20 PM Post #2669308
| We gardeners know our insect terminology, don't we! I got it right just as most of us did. |
FLStu
Spring Hill, FL
(Zone 9a)
August 29, 2006
12:24 AM Post #2669469
| Arachnology...the study of barbaque ribs...A-rack-nology...also known as arachbabybacknology, but was shortened for scrabble purposes.
Herpetology...the study of guys named Herpert or the study of something to do with STDs.
Exoskeletology...the study of what you have to use once you cannot have any more face lifts and require a face brace. This is near plague levels in LA.
Arthropology...the study of having to say your sorry for cracking your knuckles...and knees...and back...and...
|
snuzer29
Weston, FL
August 29, 2006
01:41 AM Post #2669733
| LOL |
Ponditis
Payette, ID
(Zone 6a)
August 29, 2006
02:14 AM Post #2669856
| Glad I was in 4H as a kid. I took Entomology as one of my projects when I was 9 years old. It was great fun back then to collect all those bugs and display them and have to show them on a regular basis to my Mom who just didn't understand me at all. LOL
Stu, Great dictionary terms. I got a good laugh. |
FlowrLady
Olive Branch, MS
(Zone 7b)
August 29, 2006
02:27 AM Post #2669890
| Finally, finally, I got one!!! |
Shirley1md
Ellicott City, MD
(Zone 7a)
August 29, 2006
03:13 AM Post #2670111
| Knowing it and spelling it correctly are two entirely different things! |
Rusty56
Jasper Co., MO
(Zone 6a)
August 29, 2006
03:26 AM Post #2670199
| BUGS! EEEKKK!
|
hill5422
Stephenville, TX
(Zone 8a)
August 29, 2006
04:07 AM Post #2670327
| LOL!
Too easy--I'm married to one.
:-)) |
spartacusaby
Hendersonville, NC
(Zone 7a)
August 29, 2006
04:40 AM Post #2670413
| This one was fun, since some of the choices were really creative. Particularly like exoskeletology! |
MollieB55
Landrum, SC
(Zone 7b)
August 29, 2006
06:16 AM Post #2670589
| Stu - Yep, I think you nailed herpetology! I am 62, majored in science before you were born and that was still the first thing I thought of when I saw the word! Well, plus that and I still think Dave made up a couple of those because I can't remember ever seeing them and can't find some in the dictionary! Come on, Dave! 'fess up! |
White_Hydrangea
Aurora, CO
(Zone 5a)
August 29, 2006
06:29 AM Post #2670601
| I have a science background, so this was a slam dunk. But the way I remember it is I think ANTomology. Etymology is the study of words. As I writer, I knew that. I think of "Et tu Brute," which are words.
Ah the little tricks you learn to get through college. |
MyHiraeth
Lisbon
Portugal
(Zone 10a)
August 29, 2006
09:17 AM Post #2670717
| Well, hesitated there, and I must say this is a first time for me ever - so no one else picked herpetology...not that I was convinced, but it was that or the entomology...
What´s herpetology anyway????
;-)
|
Terry
Murfreesboro, TN
(Zone 7a)
 August 29, 2006
12:45 PM Post #2670991
| Sorry - I usually put the answer in the first box, so you can know right away if you were right. If you've made it this far, you've probably voted, so I won't be spoiling it to say the correct answer is what the majority selected - entomology.
And yes, herpetology is a real word - it is the study of reptiles and amphibians. I'll let you guess (or search and figure out) which of the others are real (most are) and which are made up (some are). |
Beasbees
Lebanon, PA
August 29, 2006
05:36 PM Post #2672000
| you'd think i would know by now to go with my first instinct
FLStu thanks for the laugh those were really good descriptions |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 29, 2006
11:21 PM Post #2673026
| You forgot Endoskeletology! |
FLStu
Spring Hill, FL
(Zone 9a)
August 29, 2006
11:48 PM Post #2673084
| Endoskeletology...the study of human bone system via a colonoscopy. Also defined as the study of the support structure before face the need for an external support system (see Exoskeletology above). |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX
(Zone 9a)
August 30, 2006
04:03 AM Post #2674157
| Loved your first definition!! I'll have to remember that!!! LOL |
Sofonisba
Putnam County, NY
(Zone 6a)
August 30, 2006
04:44 AM Post #2674270
| Good ones FLStu! You kept me laughing.
Sofie |
Night_Bloom
Griffin, GA
(Zone 8a)
August 30, 2006
10:09 AM Post #2674481
| I knew of course, but that's because I had an unfair advantage, being an Entomologist myself - though not like on Crossing Jordan (love that show).
Forensic Entomology is only one of many, many different branches/ types of jobs in the field. Don't worry, I'm not going to list them all - heh - you can all breathe a sigh of relief. |
Repeat_Bloomer
Peekskill, NY
(Zone 6b)
August 30, 2006
03:46 PM Post #2675240
| OK, for all you entymologists out there, what is this little guy? He was visiting one of my mums this morning.
This message was edited Aug 30, 2006 11:47 AM
Click the image for an enlarged view.
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nivlac
San Antonio, TX
(Zone 8b)
August 30, 2006
05:04 PM Post #2675483
| Hey I got it right. hehehe
Repeat_Bloomer it looks like a type of leafhopper to me. But then I am no insect expert. |
hill5422
Stephenville, TX
(Zone 8a)
August 30, 2006
06:22 PM Post #2675723
| Repeat_Bloomer:
That is the Red-banded leafhopper, Graphocephala coccinea.
http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/114/
This message was edited Aug 30, 2006 1:27 PM |
wooconley
Oak Hill, OH
(Zone 6a)
August 30, 2006
07:35 PM Post #2675922
| I'm soooo easily distracted! I just had to look up etymology - then spend a hour going to different sites to look up words! |
cynthia_fuhrman
Felton, CA
(Zone 9a)
August 30, 2006
08:19 PM Post #2676055
| wooconoley,
I have this little program on my computer called Wordnet that has lots of words in it. It didn't have all these, though. Check it out: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/obtain
To paste into the search window you have to use the keyboard shortcut 'control v' and then enter.
I use Wordnet all the time because I really enjoy words, for some goofy reason. |
Repeat_Bloomer
Peekskill, NY
(Zone 6b)
August 30, 2006
11:47 PM Post #2676587
| Thanks Hill - that was helpful of you. |
wooconley
Oak Hill, OH
(Zone 6a)
August 31, 2006
12:21 AM Post #2676693
| cynthia_fuhrman,
I love words too - used to write ALL the time. Energy and brain got fried by Lyme disease so don't write much any more. |
heathrjoy
Kersey, PA
(Zone 5a)
August 31, 2006
06:38 AM Post #2677643
| If y'all love words then you should know your Etymology!! LOL!
Hasn't anyone here heard of http://www.dictionary.com ???? No one uses real printed dictionaries anymore!
I believe I found all the real words there. |
mokatir
asmara
Eritrea
August 31, 2006
06:59 AM Post #2677655
| i really love the quiz program in daves garden,it reminded me many important topics. |
UUallace
Cincinnati, OH
August 31, 2006
04:37 PM Post #2678566
| I like to play with words. I have used 'entomology' in place of 'etymology' just to bug English teachers. I also like to point out that footballs are spherical if you are speaking English. |
Janett_D
Gamleby
Sweden
(Zone 7a)
August 31, 2006
05:49 PM Post #2678771
| Etomolgy is the teaching of animals Latin names what they mean and why they are called what they are.
Most people use the word Etymology for that as Etymology inclueds all words.
SO to be a really good Entomologist you also have to know your Etomology :0)
Janett
|
liebran
Valencia, PA
(Zone 5b)
September 1, 2006
03:47 AM Post #2680504
| I took a college course in it in prep for veterinary school (to which I never did go)--decided to stay home and raise my surprise pregnancy baby instead. Never regretted it. Now I am going to be a grandmother in November. And bugs are still not my favorite thing. Karen Shaver (liebran) |
White_Hydrangea
Aurora, CO
(Zone 5a)
September 1, 2006
08:21 AM Post #2680908
| I use dictionary.com. And m-w.com. It's been years since I've been able to talk an employer into getting me the tools of my trade, and I don't want to lug my books into work, so I look things up on the Net. |
Karrie20x
Spokane, WA
(Zone 6a)
September 1, 2006
10:50 AM Post #2681017
| FINALLY! One that I knew the answer to! |
leelovespigs
Talbot
Australia
September 1, 2006
11:34 AM Post #2681080
| I actually knew this one - I knew that by watching those forensic shows on TV would come in handy one day!!!! LOL :-) Lee |
plantladyhou
Katy, TX
(Zone 8b)
September 1, 2006
02:20 PM Post #2681424
| Y'all actually *learned* something in college that you were supposed to learn? Maybe that's where I went wrong... but I did get the answer right.
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MollieB55
Landrum, SC
(Zone 7b)
September 1, 2006
06:21 PM Post #2682137
| plantladythou, Hey, you mean you didn't? I mean - duh- 6 years to get my Master's, plus having to take 6 credit hours every 5 years afterwards and I found that one or two of my courses actually had a clue about the "real world." I was/am a teacher of science. The science courses were invaluable. The education courses were and still are worthless! But I will save you all from my sermon on education. I am sure we are all sick of hearing what is wrong with it. Trouble is - I know the answer and no one will listen! Too simple I guess! |
Sheila_FW
Fort Worth, TX
(Zone 8a)
September 3, 2006
02:21 PM Post #2687208
| Repeat_Bloomer...Why isn't that picture out there on the bug file data base yet???? |
Janett_D
Gamleby
Sweden
(Zone 7a)
September 3, 2006
02:46 PM Post #2687267
| Because no one has helpt her ID it yet.
Janett |
goshsmom
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6a)
September 4, 2006
06:18 AM Post #2689478
| Even if I hadn't taken 3 years of Latin, I'd know this from the famous/ infamous X-Files episode abt the cockroaches. There a character called Bambi---- Scully: "Bambi? Her name is Bambi?" Mulder: "Both her parents are naturalists." --- And when the bad guys are cornered and Bambi wants to follow Scully into the danger zone, Scully readies her firearm & says "No, stay here. This is no place for an entomologist."
If it was on the X-Files, I'll remember it. I'm probably the only person in the world who's never seen an episode of CSI. |
plantladyhou
Katy, TX
(Zone 8b)
September 5, 2006
08:57 PM Post #2694854
| MollyB55, no, at the college age I already knew everything life and books could teach me. Now, I'm definitely smarter but never finished college. Living to the ripe old age of 75 has taught me a lot of things; one of those was to marry a good man, raise 5 kids and stay married to this man for 51 years. Plus learn to garden by the seat of my pants and the sweat of my brow.
Just wanted to say we just celebrated our 51st. wedding anniversary on Sept. 2.
Ann
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