As attentive readers may know, Freezersaurus died over a month ago. We’ve been thankful for the winter’s chill that slowed the thawing process of our treasure trove of specimens while we complete the move to a temporary freezer. The gelid torch was thus being passed to the next walk-in freezer at a glacial pace– but with the glacier-scale force of Team Hutch’s collective muscles.
Stomach-Churning Rating: Hmm tough call; 6/10 if you know what it’s like to clean out a nasty freezer, 4/10 if not.
Yet this week it all ends. With Crimbo’s long break ahead and an uncouth urinal smell pervading the dripping carcass of Freezersaurus, we have to clear out our little frozen ark. Some specimens have had to meet the incinerator early; others have returned to frozen limbo pending our future attention; and some are now just clean bones.
So our temporary new freezer could use a name; Freezersaurus II just won’t do. In the spirit of democracy (and Yuletide), I’ll open the floor to nominations. Nothing could go wrong with populism, right 2016? Hello? Oh crap.
Enjoy some photos of the move, and please make freezer name suggestions in the Comments.
And, if I don’t post again in time, Happy Holidays! May the dark times not Krampus your style.
-John, Dean of the Demochilling Polarpublic of Freezevania
Let’s let Mike Ness sing us out…
UPDATE:
OK we have, via various forms of social media, these nominations for our temporary freezer’s name (I took one from each person suggesting a name; I hope I caught them all); so let’s open it to a poll!
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(The nominations: Freezersuchus, Freezertherius, Freezopolis, Eofrigidum, Narnia and Pleistoscene)
While you’re at it, check out Anatomy To You’s new blog post: do turtles wiggle their hips and if so how much? Now we know!
Freezersuchus! (A crocodile held a gun to my head to make me write this ;p)
That is an excellent name but I think that the archosaurs have had a good run and it’s time to recognise the other great lineage: Freezertherius.
Since I still need my afternoon tea you’ll have to forgive the horribleness of these names:
DinoFreezus, the Terrible Freezer!
Dr. Freeze
Freezopolis
I think I’ve embarrassed myself enough now.
How about
Eofrigidum (Greek “dawn, new” and Latin “cold”)
Or perhaps Capsa Frigoris (Latin for “cold box”)?