This seaweed should be our mascot

Egregia menziesii, also known as "feather boa kelp". There's a good picture here.

edited 29th Apr '13 8:32:38 AM by SCAL37

The third picture on your second link makes it look like there are seaweed ghosts rising out of the ground, possibly to invade the land world.

Also yes.

I'd prefer sargassum. Mostly for the bad pun.

I don't get it

The old factoid about the overuse of "egregious"?

But I chose mine for the bad pun...

I know. But I like my bad pun better.

Or they can both be mascots.

Obviously the solution is to have them fight each other to the death.

I don't get the puns

Maybe we just go for a chromalveolate theme: Diatoms! Enormous, hairy tubes! Malaria! Things that look almost exactly like fungi but are most distantly related to them than we are!

Edit: Mine's a reference to the 'egregious' meme.

edited 29th Apr '13 9:24:18 AM by SCAL37

And sargassum sounds similar to sarcasm.

^^Wait, people thought at some point it means something positive when it was obviously something negative?

Welcome to the internet.

Read as "long straplike phallus". I would, wouldn't I.

Well 'egregious' comes from Latin grex, meaning herd. If something is 'egregious', that means it stands out from the herd.

Of course, it means it stands out from the herd in a negative way, but given the etymology, it could be mistaken for standing out in a positive way easily enough.

('Gregarious' comes from the same root, by the way).

Right, that's enough Latin-nerding for today. I support making that seaweed our mascot.