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My second guess would be that it means something along the order of 'flash in the pan' Not bad, Gymkhana. The "dot com bubble" lasted approximately 3 years from fall 1998 when the NASDAQ began its spectacular ascent from 1357 to the pinnacle (over 4000) and then back under 1400 again in September, 2001. This life cycle parallels almost exactly the life cycle of the "Blovian brericauda" (short-tailed shrew), as you will see in the "Lifespan" Chart below. "Blovian" Shrews have more than longevity in common with the "dot com" flame-outs, so it appears. Some extracts from an Encyclopedia will demonstrate. 1. Shrews have the shortest life span of all mammals. 2. The age of senescence is the same for shrews as it is for dot com start-ups - approximately 16 months. The Nasdaq went into its first dramatic and ultimately fatal decline in April 2000, corresponding to the first appearance of "old age" in shrews (and dot coms) after 16 months. 3. Bigger dot coms (like Yahoo!) have a longer life span than smaller, incandescent ones (like Boo.com) ... just like shrews. "The larger species usually have a longer life span than the smaller species." "Life expectancy increases with body weight." 4. Shrews travel at "Internet speed" ... just like the once high-flying dot coms. Shrews almost never sleep and they are always foraging ["looking for first mover advantage]. "The large heat loss experienced by small animals [cash burn rate] must be balanced by a practically uninterrupted intake of calories [venture capital funding]. Accordingly shrews forage continuously and their ravenous appetites are proverbial." See Mammalian Life Spans beginning with the shortest: "Blovian brericauda" (Short-tailed Shrews) below. ("What does the "brericauda" stand for?", you are asking. It stands for "New Era".  ) Some Potential Lifespans of Mammals - Group Common Name Scientific Name Years Insectivores Short-tailed shrew Blovian brericauda 2.5 Lesser Hedgehod-tenrec Echinops telfairi 16 Greater White-toothed shrew Crocidura russula 4
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'flash in the pan'
Not bad, Gymkhana.
Closer than you might think, Blutarch.
A Blovian vision is one you get from breathing the mist from the waterfall in Ludicrania Falls.
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plutarch, this reads like so much bloviation to me; here's why: 1) "What does the "brericauda" stand for?", you are asking. It stands for New Era. on the contrary, it means "short-tailed", according to your source, which leaves us to assume that "Blovian" actaully is the *shrew itself*!!2) The "dot com bubble" lasted approximately 3 years... 3 years is 20% longer than Short-tailed shrew Blovian brericauda 2.5(yrs). this is statistically significant. 3) but here's the kicker. the actual, real, true scientific name of the Short-tailed Shrew is Blarina brevicauda!!! [brevi (short) + cauda (tail)] {Paradigalla brevicauda = Short-tailed Bird-of-Paradise}  btw, I just noticed the transposition going on between blarina brevicauda and blovian brericauda
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About "new era" for "brericauda", I was just funnin withya, Tsuwm. Your latin is obviously better than mine. About that "statistically significant" 20%, this is a literary metaphor not a scientific analysis. Just poetic licence, Tsuwm, as with most literary metaphors including "New Economy". As to "Blovian", there are many, many brands of short-tailed shrews including the one you are promoting and the more eponymous one I have presented.
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Tsuwm says: here is the complete* list of google-hits:
Blovian brericauda (scientific name of the short-tailed shrew) etc. I found blovian brericauda the same place you did, Tsuwm. I don't mean to be shrewish about this, but its just a metaphor to me. Not a subject for laboratory dissection. Sorry it doesn't work for you. Hmmmm. "Paradigallian Vision". That does have a certain ring to it.
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>its just a metaphor to me... sorry it doesn't work for you.
well that's just it; it don't work for me 'cuz there's no proper word from which to create an analogy -- sorry back at ya.
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That's 'cause you've got Carpal Tunnel-Vision, Tsuwm. [just kidding] We seem to be going round in circles, Tsuwm. You found "Blovian" in Google and now you insist it doesn't exist. I'm getting dizzy. How about you? Let's just call it a night, OK?
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>you insist it doesn't exist.... Let's just call it a night, OK? sure, just so long as *I can have the last word.  what I'm sayin' is that I don't believe that Blovian is the scientific name of *any shrew, short-tailed or no, in spite of what one misguided web site says.
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in spite of what one misguided web site saysoh horror! ya mean I *can't believe THE TRUTH is out there? 
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