I have to tell you about the silly string creature in the ocean off Australia. It showed up on the Weather network a few weeks ago. It is a giant siphonophore Apolemia, that looks like silly string. It is 150 feet long. New Zealand's common name for it is long stringy stingy thingy. It is many thousands of individuals which form an entity on a higher level. It is a string jellyfish.
I don't remember having silly string as a child. It is a mixture that is dispersed from an aerosol can. It comes out as a a string. It was invented in 1972. What Leonard Fish and Robert Cox were trying to invent was an instant cast. When the string shot across the room about 30 feet, they turned it into a toy. Who owns it today? The Car-Freshner Corporation, the maker of Little Trees owns the Silly String trademark.
We have a pretty rose arbour from Filoli Gardens, south of San Francisco near Half Moon Bay.
