Just chattering in IM produces productive seeds of stimulation and new search terms. I have no idea what began a conversation about "sea monkeys" other than I asked Naphtali what they were. After this conversation I come up with searching for a live "seahorse." During the presentation when we ask our peers to search for it, "this" term becomes a curiosity for Shipka. This is a curiosity for Shipka because she lived in the mid-west most of her life and this was her first year living near an ocean. I, on the other hand grew up on Long Island and even though I was into the beach, but not that into the "ocean itself", I had "seen" a lot of the creatures fisherman haul out of the ocean. At age three, I already knew what a "seahorse" looked like because my brother bought a dried out one as a souvenir at the Jones Beach Souvenir Shop. I could "understand Shipka's not knowing what a "seahorse" was having lived in the mid-west her whole life but her response for me was hilarious. "It's a shrimp," she exclaimed. I thought this was a riot because when you feel one you know right away this is a bony creature you do not want to eat. Shrimps you eat, not seahorses. Seahorses aren't even in the same class of species as shrimps. I wonder if she knows that it's the males that get pregnant, bring the young to full term, and give birth to the young?