When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid from a Clamp, That’s a Moray

When your cultural norms take on certain broad forms, that's a more.

For fans of the Dick van Dyke Show, "He tells jokes, he's a ham, his last name's Amsterdam, that's-a Morey".

I'm from Saskatchewan and while I've never heard that before, I'm going to start using it. That's really good - thanks for sharing! :)

We can even change the lyrics to:

When you're in Saskatchewan, and cheap oil's at the end, that's Scott Moe, eh?

I am not sure when the titular Alien reveals its additional set of moray-like jaws but that certainly comes to mind.

The rest of the image captions follow through on the rhyme!

A parody of the song "That's Amore" by Allen Sherman has lyrics like "When you're diving at night And your feet feel a bite That's a moray!" and "When you see a big eel with its jaws made of steel that's a moray".

I was going to suggest "Foot Heads Arms Body", but that one is apparently a myth. Despite considerable interest in the headline and a widespread belief that it actually ran, mentions of it seem to be universally vague about the particular appointment (which would at least tell us that there was an actual event about which to run an article) and nobody has produced the article itself.

My favourite has always been 'Ike beats Tina to death'

I thought a chyron would be some poetic form I'd never heard of. It's actually the text and graphics at the bottom of the screen on a news program.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chyron

Something like 10g of meat would make sense in this context too. The fact that the article specifies that the strips are measured out in length suggests weight isn't the criteria.

It doesn't have to be an integer value (or a reasonable in-between value like 1.5 or 2.5) of whatever unit they used, but its the most parsimonious approach for the graduate student who actually does the work - unless there is a good reason not to.

EDIT: from the paper:-

> Individuals were offered squid pieces that were 3 mm by 30 mm. These prey dimensions were ideal for this study because they were small enough that feeding on a single prey item would not result in satiation, which could influence feeding kinematics (Sass and Motta, 2002). Also, offering prey of a rectangular shape rather than a square shape provided length that elicited head movements, which enabled us to observe multiple protraction and retraction cycles during transport.