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    Zappa trivia

    http://www.livescience.com/43460-acn...rapevines.html

    The team named the new bacterium P. acnes type Zappae (P. Zappae for short) after the late Italian-American musician Frank Zappa, because they believe that Zappa, like the finding, was "unconventional."

    "The fact that it was so unusual made us think of someone as unusual and eclectic as Frank Zappa, who was a surprising person," Campisano said. "And we wanted to honor him on the 20th anniversary of his death." Zappa died on Dec. 4, 1993.

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    A bacterium that causes acne? That has Zappa written all over it.

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    ... with titanic tits and sand-blasted zits.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    A bacterium that causes acne? That has Zappa written all over it.
    Together with Bromadrosis

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    Lucy, the so called "missing link" was named as such because Lucy In The Skies With Diamonds was playing on the radio when she was discovered.

    There's also a dinosaur named after Mark Knopfler, for similar reasons, because Dire Straits was playing on the radio while they were digging up the fossil.

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    Cool story even if it is 3 years old.

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    Frank Zappa plays a hunchback on a children’s show narrated by Vincent Price, 1983.

    https://dangerousminds.net/comments/..._vincent_price

    - And Mick Jagger played a Chinese mandarin and Robin Williams played a frog.
    Wouldn't have happened today, they would have had to spend a year training a frog.

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