>John Doue wrote:
>>[about the throbber]
>>As Robert said, it is actually the SM bird on default themes.
>>
»Q« wrote:
>That thing's an abstraction of a Sea-Monkey, not a bird.
>Actual Sea-Monkeys look like this:
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artemia_salina.jpg>

...and, as is indicated on that page,
*sea monkey* is another name for Brine Shrimp.
I think the sea monkey term was made up by marketers
who put ads in the back of comic books
so they could swindle 8 year olds out of their allowances.
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