I think Nick is having "Rootbeer" withdralls... PLEASE, someone send him some Rootbeer.....
Rodney... NREMT - Paramedic Life is too short, go fishing... ----- Original Message ----- From: "DonO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Chilli Pepper Classification- scientific > Can I have some of whatever you're taking??? Puleeeeeexe!!!??? > > Dr.D > > > > Nick wrote: > > The first thing that comes to my mind is the tinsel chenille (flash > chenille, crystal chenille or whatever the manufacturer has named it as) > instead of the regular chenille. Next thing will be the 8 strands of crystal > flash in the tail. > > I, personally, don't think the bead should matter. I mean a bead on a Hare's > Ear Nymph didn't make it seize to be a Hare's Ear Nymph... it just got to be > a Beadheaded HEN. So a Woolly Bugger with a bead should just make it a > Beadheaded Woolly Bugger. > > So, to be scientific about then (thinking in parallel with what I learned > from herpetology studies): > My own Black Peppers have all the ingredients that the true Chili Pepper > ('Chili pepprus pepprus') has, only in black, which I think makes them > 'Peppers'. Really just the same species spreading to other habitats and > mother nature creates color adaptations. Sometimes these will be refered as > subspecies ('Chili pepprus blackentrix') and sometimes they will be refered > only as a color variant of the species. When I tied my Grizzly Peppers, the > evolution step was more radical, since now we're talking a different kind of > marabou feathers... and an actual physical change is good enough to make > them a subspecies (Chili pepprus grizzlii). > > Now Ian has tied a variant of my Black Pepper using 'black chenille with > just a touch of flash', chenille/flash blend... so now it gets more > interesting. If my Black Pepper is one of those "color variants", then Ian's > fly (with a PHYSICAL material change), would be a subspecies to the Chili > Pepper and a "brother" to the Grizzly Pepper... maybe a 'Chili pepprus > chenastes'. But if my Black Pepper made it to subspecies, the rock might > start to roll. Ian's variant might actually break the family into two. I > don't have a PhD, but I know this has happened to some snakes. A new snake > variant is found and they cheer "YES!!! ANOTHER SUBSPECIES!!!"... but then > they discover that this isn't correct. The snake has turned out to be closer > to an already existing subspeices than it is to the actual top species. They > won't give it a fourth name. They won't place it as a separate species, > since it's closer to another snake's subspecies than the true species. > So...... the already existing subspecies will be put as a new species, with > the new snake as it's subspecies. So my Black Pepper gets kicked out of the > Pepper family and gets named 'Chili leechus leechus' and Ian's fly gets > named 'Chili leechus chenastes'. > > And now we enter the comic side of the scientific side. I've heard or read > something about the Chili Pepper first started as some kind of joke. Someone > refused to tie a bugger on the tippet and this, or a variant, was given to > him. Something like that. Obviously this will be hard proof that the Chili > Pepper is a younger species than the WB. The difference between them are > merely the flash material and the bead. > Evolution grabbed hold of the bugger and turned it into a Chili Pepper, > which developed subspecies of its own. Ian's fly made it too crowded so the > fly I tied as a subspecies got kicked to a new branch on the tree. Nature > forms and adapts and species are born, just like it has always been... > except in this case. The Peppers had left chenille a long time ago, but when > Ian chose chenille/flash blend for the body of his fly 'Chili leechus > chenastes', his fly is actually taking the 'Chili leechus' family back to > where it started... Buggers. Nature going in reverse!!! And since my fly is > now on top of that branch, I will be the one taking the fall for starting > it. > > ...and this while the 'Chili pepprus' family advances and advances. :o( > > /Nick > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.5.4/332 - Release Date: 5/4/2006 > >
