Wah Wah Mountains (of Utah).
Rephrased in Jeopardy style: "Where is the only place in the world to find bixbite?"
It's day 5 of Theme Week: Museum Musings, and, for whatever reason, while walking through the Grainger Hall of Gems at Chicago's Filed Museum last week, I found all of the above information funny. Bixbite. Wah Wah Mountains. To me, it sounded made up (not the Utah part, per se).
And speaking of made up, the choice I nearly went with for today's wordplay was Okapi -- which my nephew Jack brought up on the way to the museum. At the time, I thought he was fabricating this animal that is a cross between a giraffe and a zebra ... and then I thought that it was literally a cross (as in, mule is to donkey & horse as okapi is to giraffe & zebra) ... which made me wonder if okapis were sterile like mules are (mostly) sterile ... which made me think about the people who say that mules mess with God's overall plan ... which made me realize that I had strayed too far from my original thought path.
Bixbite. Wah Wah Mountains. Too funny ...
BIXBITE SAMPLES (MINED FROM THE WAH WAH MOUNTAINS OF UTAH):
http://www.mineralminers.com/html/bixmins.stm
OKAPI or HERE's ANOTHER ANIMAL THAT WASN'T FEATURED IN SWEET PICKLES:
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-okapi.html
THE SCIENCE OF MULE OFFSPRING TO DEBUNK THE STERILITY MYTH:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4056372?dopt=Abstract
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