The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy

So, have you ever sat and wondered about the life history and phylogenetic tree of occlupanids?

Confused and have no idea what an occlupanid is?

Well you've come to the right thread because i've discovered a rich, likely the most complete ever, source of years of research into occlupanids.

Better known as




www.horg.com...

This site contains several years of research in the classification of occlupanids. These small objects are everywhere, dotting supermarket aisles and sidewalks with an impressive array of form and color. The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group has taken on the mantle of classifying this most common, yet most puzzling, member of phylum Plasticae.

Occlupanids are generally found as parasitoids on bagged pastries in supermarkets, hardware stores, and other large commercial establishments. Their fascinating and complex life cycle is unfortunately severely under-researched. What is known is that they take nourishment from the plastic sacs that surround the bagged product, not the product itself, as was previously thought. Notable exceptions to this habit are those living off rubber bands and on analog watch hands.

In most species, they often situate themselves toward the center of the plastic bag, holding in the contents. This leads to speculation that the relationship may be more symbiotic than purely parasitic.

Their stunning diversity and mysterious habits have entranced many a respectable scientist into studying, collecting, and cataloging specimens late into the night.

This site contains several years of research in the classification of occlupanids. For those of you who do not consume sliced bread, occlupanids do not form an important part of your life. For the rest of the world, These small objects are everywhere, dotting supermarket aisles and sidewalks with an impressive array of form and color.

The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group has taken on the mantle of classifying this most common, yet most puzzling, member of phylum Plasticae.

Honestly, I would have put this in the jokes forum, but it really seems like the person that put this together has actually spent years studying and classifying small plastic clips.

a reply to: dug88

in my neck of the woods it's called a roach clip

a reply to: dug88

Honestly, I would have put this in the jokes forum, but it really seems like the person that put this together has actually spent years studying and classifying small plastic clips.

Cool hobby. Stamps, seashells.

At least it's keeping some plastic out of the environment.

Reminds me of the museum of coat hangers. Not that curious except for the very existence of it.

Coat hanger Museum

I have to be honest. My brain stuttered reading the OP's headline.

That's quite a title for something so (With all due respect. And remember I said it with all due respect.) quotidian.

It's kind of like when I was a stay at home mom and people asked what my occupation was. Of course I said Domestic Engineer. Because why not?

But I dig it. We all gotta have something right? The bread(th) of his collection is amazing. And now I'll see myself out.

a reply to: dug88

If you build it, they will come.

a reply to: dug88

Crazy thread.
Collecting those would almost be as exciting as my collection of blades of grass.

originally posted by: RazorV66
a reply to: dug88

Crazy thread.
Collecting those would almost be as exciting as my collection of blades of grass.

Now If there were a gun behind each blade like there is supposed to be, it would be an exciting collection indeed.

(Couldn’t resist. Sorry)

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S+F for the title alone!!’

(LOL)

After the word salad, and then seeing a picture my mind clicked: Guitar Picks!!!

See, after their original purpose, if they survive long enough, that is how I see them!

Not as cool as a glowing skull that holds my destiny... but when push comes to strum, they fill a void!!

Wild what people collect. Like the President Potato Chip series, paper clips, dryer lint, and bag twist tie thingys that you can play one Green Day song with before they split in two!

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Firstly, I am surprised that in that phylogeny, that the stromatacardia are not better represented, there being a decided populism favoring that particular genus within the overall phylum, based upon the presented photographic evidence.

Secondly, it is clear that there must be some innate anthropomorphic drive as these are all synethoplasts within the phylum and do not represent true evolutionary branches per se, but must therefore represent phenotypic ideation within originators' taxonomic paradigms.

Thirdly, in the current taxonomologiac analyses there seems to be a surfeit of mass/volume measurements and of detailed chemical assay, that must play a part in the preponderance of one species over another as it relates to the efficiency of materiel selection.

Fourthly, ... I forgot what my point is, and that, I think, is the predominant and incisive academic point at issue here!

Fifthly, it is the season of excess in regard to ethanol consumption and as such, one cannot be held accountable for discombobulation on only the fourth point of the peer review of such a dissertation.

Sixthly, merry season, and lugubrious greetings, et al... (falls down).

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I have a (formerly) secret hobby of collecting clipper lighters. Have over 1000 individual designs going back to the early 90’s.

Don’t know why I do it, some of us are just a bit special. About 99% of them are totally worthless although I do have a Coca Cola one from the 90’s which fetch around £50.

Publicly cataloguing them is taking it too far tho. In fact I feel a slight shame in admitting my strange little quirk, I don’t collect anything else and I no longer smoke but still buy the lighters.

I suppose this is a fine hobby for some pedantic aetheticist with a thing for hydrocarbon cast-offs but I much prefer the intricacy and exotic forms of bottle cap collecting myself.

a reply to: dug88

Good find, fun stuff. I stocked bread for a brief time and the colors denote the day of the week it was made. So when you are looking check out that as it should, IIRC, have the date it was made also so you can get the freshest bread. The colors just make it easier for the stocker's to pull out of code bread.

I don't use the suckers. Once I pull one off it's replaced with clips that actually work. Never liked them.

a reply to: dug88

Hoo haa!

You have my years of taxonomy and
cladism surpassed.

Well Done!
S&F

It is interesting to know someone actually has researched this stuff. By no means am I going to try to remember anything about this thread. Usually there is a date on bread in the store here, we look for that or feel the loaf to identify what is fresh. As far as a color tag identifying things here, I doubt if the people who put the ties on care what color it is.