In <news:[email protected]>, JeffM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >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. Yes, the marketing name is "Sea-Monkeys". They got me at about that age, and KaiRo more recently. ;) Old ad: <http://therawfeed.com/pix/seamonkeys-lg.jpg> Current site: <http://www.sea-monkeys.com/> KaiRo's: <http://home.kairo.at/blog/2007-09/sea_monkeys_living_in_a_seamonkey_team_m> <http://home.kairo.at/blog/2008-03/6_month_old_sea_monkeys> I've set the followups to mozilla.general. -- »Q« /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mail X <http://asciiribbon.org/> / \ _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
