Henry the Hexapus and more March

Dear Henry Albert,

Henry the Octopus/Hexapus): English Marine Experts discovered an octopus with six legs. *Octopodes (*Octopodes is the plural of octopus.) usually have eight legs which are not really legs. And they aren’t arms either. They are tentacles. And you have to be careful of how you spell and pronounce tentacles because people can think you are talking about something else which can be very confusing.

Some people think the plural of octopus is octopi or octopussys. The “oct” means 8. So octopus is OK if you have eight things. But, Henry got six and ‘Hex” means six so Henry is a Hexapus.
So they named the octopus with six tentacles a “hexapus”. They named him 'Henry' because it alliterated well with 'hexapus.' The supervisor who named him Henry is named Carey Duckhouse.

Duckhouse, Schmuckhouse, so what? What is important is that you got a new cousin. His name is Levi and Uncle Mike and Dave are the Daddies. More to come ....

The octopus (Greek Οκτάπους, 'eight-legs', with plural forms: octopuses, octopi, or octopodes, see below) is a cephalopod of the order Octopoda.

'Henry' was discovered in a local zoo along with seven other Octopodes. No one noticed his missing legs until he attached himself to the inside of his glass tank.

Some people thought he was named Henry after King Henry the 8th who had eight wives but only two legs. Until Henry, the most famous six-legged octopus was one that appeared in a 1955 B-movie, “It Came From Beneath The Sea.” In order to save money, the producers made their octopus (hexapus) with only six tentacles. Octopuses are renowned for having three hearts, blue blood and the ability to alter their skin complexion in the blink of an eye.

Other birthdays in March:
March 10, 1957: Osama Bin Laden. Terrorist created by Carter & Reagan
March 31, 1596: René Descartes, philosopher, mathematician
March 31, 1732: Franz Joseph Haydn, composer
March 31, 1811: German chemist R.W.E. von Bunsen, invented the Bunsen Burner March 31, 1927: Cesar Chavez, labor leader Duckhouse? What kind of name is Duckhouse? I went to Yeshiva with a kid named Mousehouse. Mousehouse was a translation of something. Maybe Duckhouse is a translation something also.

And Grandpa Joel did an important scientific experiment in March. I dropped a cell phone in the toilet to see if it would work or float. It didn’t work or float. Drying it with a towel or slamming it against the wall didn’t make it work either. My friend Don suggested putting it in the microwave oven but Ralph said it would melt and it would be better to put it in the toaster oven on “light” for 2 minutes. It worked!

And what does this prove? One thing is we have Daylight Savings Time. That is when we move the clocks one hour ahead to confuse the chickens or roosters and certainly people.
Eliot Spitzer quit as Governor of New York because of a peccadillo. (Peccadillo (plural either peccadillos or peccadilloes), from the Latin word for sin, is commonly used for a petty misdeed and, by extension, for an antic.) Anyway, he got caught. He was known as #9 when he was peccadilloing. So they are selling sweat shirts which will help the economy.Peccadillos, armadillos and avocados are all different things.