tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post5514338075648380407..comments2024-03-28T09:53:22.549-05:00Comments on Unlocked Wordhoard: What Are Barnacle Geese?Dr. Richard Scott Nokeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01348275071082514870noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-47586481994653466772009-02-26T20:43:00.000-06:002009-02-26T20:43:00.000-06:00I always assumed it was goose barnacles, yes. The...I always assumed it was goose barnacles, yes. There's a delightful article I read somewhere about certain mediaeval theologians who liked to use the barnacle goose to try to convince Jews of the truth of the immaculate conception. Clearly, if they can reproduce themselves so innocently in such vast numbers, it is a miracle of God that he could easily have extended to one tiny human saviour.Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06750010843246514032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13713642.post-89126388405896223112009-02-26T19:43:00.000-06:002009-02-26T19:43:00.000-06:00Gerald of Wales as a "contemporary" author -- did ...Gerald of Wales as a "contemporary" author -- did they specify *what* he was contemporary to? Inquiring minds and all that. Surely he was contemporary to those of his own time....<BR/><BR/>What I always heard is that if you look at a log with actual marine barnacles on it -- especially the kind called "gooseneck" barnacles -- and their feathery feeding appendages are extended, they look a little like they might be some sort of odd, tiny, one-or-two-inch geese. If you don't know enough about their internal biology to know what you're actually looking at, it doesn't take too great a leap of the imagination to visualize them falling off the log and growing bigger, into *real* geese.Chris Laninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07574568785133002628noreply@blogger.com