NATIONAL SEA MONKEY DAY – May 16

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[heterosupremacist]

National Sea Monkey Day is observed each year on May 16. Most of us have memories of waiting for our mail order shipment of these magical creatures. The delivery usually contained the small “aquarium-like” hatching kit for them to live and grow in.

Sea Monkeys are a type of “Artemia” (brine shrimp). They got their name because of their monkey-tail look.

Following the popularity of the ant farms, Harold von Braunhut invented the “Sea Monkeys” and hatching kits in 1957. He did most of his advertising through comic books. He once said, “I think I bought something like 3.2 million pages of comic book advertising a year. It worked beautifully.”

These little crustaceans have made their appearances on television shows including Spin City, Roseanne, Night Court, South Park, The Simpsons, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and Desperate Housewives.

Sea Monkeys went into space with astronaut John Glenn on October 29, 1998...

[heterosupremacist]

[Doogle]

"...Maxine Waters celebrates Sea monkeys daily"

[Cicero]

[Combat_Liberalism]

Please. Restrain yourself. You greatly insult the Sea Monkey community by your your insulting association. As mayor Richard Daley of Chicago once said “I resent that insinuendo...”

[mikrofon]

NTBCW “National Monkey-see, Monkey-do Day”, which is celebrated every day by the mainstream media and their followers…

[DannyTN]

Is there a song?

[DannyTN]

[x]

Google the guy who came up with that idea (and X-ray Specs and Amazing Hair-Raising Monsters and Crazy Crabs).

Surprising and troubling life.

[cld51860]

LOL, boy that takes me back. I remember that ad. Even bought some once. My Dad kinda rolled his eyes, “They’re just shrimp!”

[NohSpinZone]

Yes indeed. Born to Jewish parents, he somehow ended up as a member of the Aryan Nation even becoming a major benefactor through proceeds of some of his inventions.

[Jamestown1630]

LOL! I remember seeing that ad with those imaginal critters. Thanks for a great memory.

[EinNYC]

This was one of the biggest scams ever put over on the public. "Sea monkeys" are brine shrimp, tiny salt water arthropods. Many people raise them to feed tropical fish. I never found them particularly amusing, but they are easy to hatch from the dormant eggs you can buy at any pet store, with some uniodized salt, a used Poland Spring 2 liter bottle and an aquarium air pump with some tubing, to keep the water moving.

[FlyFisher]

Try as I did, I was never able to train my Sea Monkeys. In fact, after several attempts, they formed a public employees union, and now I have to pay their outrageous pensions forever.