I was playing Pictionary with my boys, and one of them picked Arrhenotoky: To only give birth to boys. They were so excited to find a word that describes me! I was starting to feel a little of their excitement thinking I was a scientific category unto myself. Until I looked it up. "It is a form of parthenogenesis in which unfertilized eggs develop into haploid males, observed in some marine invertebrates, beetles, scorpions, mites, bees." GROSS. I'm feeling just a little annoyed with the Pictionary people.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
I Am What?
I was playing Pictionary with my boys, and one of them picked Arrhenotoky: To only give birth to boys. They were so excited to find a word that describes me! I was starting to feel a little of their excitement thinking I was a scientific category unto myself. Until I looked it up. "It is a form of parthenogenesis in which unfertilized eggs develop into haploid males, observed in some marine invertebrates, beetles, scorpions, mites, bees." GROSS. I'm feeling just a little annoyed with the Pictionary people.
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7 comments:
Wow! I haven't played pictionary in a long time. I didn't realize they gave such difficult words. Is this some kind of scholar pictionary. By the way, you are far from gross. If I looked in the dictionary under Amy Jo, I'm sure I would see: mother/care giver of six wonderful boys.
That is QUITE the word.
hee hee, that is funny stuff. You are none of those things, but it is still pretty funny.
I'd be annoyed too - GROSS! But...you are one fantastic mom of all boys. :)
That put a smile on my face! Funny!
huh?
Well if you're a "Arrhenotoky" I guess that makes me one too. (I had to copy and paste that word)
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