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These were a nice suprise.
Gideon

First, that is a gorgeous snake. But we really do have to come up with better names. Blood is red, at least mine.

We need a contest to come up with a better naming structure. I'm sure KS will give a great prize like a HUMMER. HHmm wonder if this will get pulled now?

But really, sweet snake. But 3 years from not 30% of corns will have the blood name in them. We don't say classic rootbeer amel, we say creamsicle.

So I here by decree that the old bloodred is now Dracula. Amel bloods are Dracula with pink eye? OK, it's late I'm going to bed. Enough jocularity! !

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People with half the sense to do things right, do things wrong 50% of the time. {Me!}

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Big Tom

www.herpzilla.com

Striped bloods are Draculas in a pin stripe suit.

POOF
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People with half the sense to do things right, do things wrong 50% of the time. {Me!}

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Big Tom

www.herpzilla.com

you are soooo funny... thats what i needed first thing this morning was a nice laugh

~kin
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SNAKIES~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Corns:
.1 Normal (Gertrude) [just a pet...she started it all]
1. unknown hypo? normal? (Romeo)
1.2 Miami Phase (Hector, Emily, Charlotte) thanks jeff!
1. Amel het Blizzard (Dunesbury)
1. Classic het Hypo, poss het Amel, Anery (Cobra)
1.1 Classics (Henry VIII, Cassy [Emilys babies])
.1 Amel (Pepperoni)
1.1 Hypo zig zags poss het Caramel (Bernard, Abegail)
.1 Classic{reduced black} het Hypo, Stripe (Gracie Lou)
1.1 Anery het Motley (Lleroy, Persia)
.1 Candy cane (no name yet) [Just a pet]
1. "Classic" looks like an Abbotts (no name yet)

Rats:
1.1 Black rats (Willard, Cecily)

Cal Kings:
1.1 Striped Cal Kings (Dweezil, Skunky)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~LEOPARD GECKOS~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1. Normal het Midnight Blizzard (Mr. Spot)
0.1 Blizzard (Blitz) was attacked by a cat and still living!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~TURTLES~~~~~~~~~~~~

.1 white cheeked mud (Opel)
.1 snapping turtle (no name, ideas welcome)

I second that emotion. Blood is red. "Bloodred" should be a red snake - not grey, pewter, etc. "Diffused pattern ghost" would be a more accurate name for those snakes - which are very nice.

Tim

Third Eye

Ghost episkiastic is how I'd identify those babies...but I'm just a broken record playing all to myself over here.

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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

>>Ghost episkiastic is how I'd identify those babies...but I'm just a broken record playing all to myself over here.

For the record, I like episkiastic more than diffused, but the book's out, people are using it, so blood or diffused it is.

I do agree that the ghost bloods need a trade name. We already have:
Fire = amel bloodred
Avalanche = snow bloodred
Granite = anery A bloodred
Pewter = charcoal bloodred
Whiteout = blizzard bloodred

So far Hypo Pewters are referred to as hypo pewters, so perhaps a ghost blood should really be 'hypo granite'?

-Kat
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This Space For Rent

This will probably make some even more mad at me than than they already are, but I don't think that simply having a book in print means that you get to decide what something is called.

I'm not fussing with you, Kat. You know I have a great deal of respect for you and the knowledge you have.

I just don't think the verdict can be in on "diffuse" versus "episkiastic" when the jury (the market as a whole) never really got to consider the question in the first place. The book was printed by the one who suggested "diffuse" and so that makes it so?

Not with me.

But again...I realize I'm in the minority.
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

>>This will probably make some even more mad at me than than they already are, but I don't think that simply having a book in print means that you get to decide what something is called.

Hey Darin,

I agree... just publishing a book doesn't make someone ruler or king of everything... It's more of the path that most corn names come from. Some people start using X. Other people start using Y. If more people hear 'X' than 'Y', more people are going to use 'X' for the name. Once lots of people start using 'X', it really doesn't make much sense to use 'Y', simply because everybody already knows it as 'X'. And of course, one way to get alot of people to hear the name 'X' is to publish a book that lots of people buy.

People don't generally vote on what morph name they want to call something. Somebody comes up with a name, and as that name gets spread around, if people like it they'll continue to use it, otherwise they might try to come up with their own. It doesn't matter if a third party has the best name in the world for the morph. If the popular name is good enough, that's the one that gets used.

-Kat
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This Space For Rent

But I'm going to continue to identify my "non-bloodred, bloodred patterned animals" as "episkiastics" regardless. If nothing else, it allows me to attract a little attention from those wanting to know what I mean by that term.
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

>>This will probably make some even more mad at me than than they already are,

Incidentally... who's mad at you? I doubt Serpwidgets is... he's pretty thick-skinned and it's difficult to get him to take offense.

-Kat
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This Space For Rent

It doesn't much matter. He knows who he is, and I don't want it to start all over again. Time is just too valuable to be wasted on such.

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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742