No, not the naked girls are great for marketing Scorpions, but rather plain old "scorpions".

If one were using "old school" resources to answer the following questions, compare and contrast what answers you would obtain with dead-tree sources versus Wikipedia.

1. Which scorpion species is generally the longest?
2. What is the record longest scorpion ever documented?
3. Which scorpion species is generally the heaviest?
4. What is the record heaviest scorpion ever documented?
5. Which scorpion species is generally the smallest?

I'm honestly at a loss as to the definitive answers to these questions, and perhaps it is because there is no "definitive" answer to these questions.

Note, this is a Milton-style exercise. I would not spend time on this if you have a term paper or other work due. It's honestly not that important to me. It's just struck my curiosity.

Phooey! I wanted to talk about marketing.

Well, if we have to talk about scorpions, here is a guy who can talk up the subject:

Just to "answer" that one, a dead tree source I have says Hadogenes troglodytes is "probably" the longest, while Wikipedia states it "is the longest".

Taaaaaaaaaake me to da magic of da mo-ment on a glorrry night [that's the best type of night] when the children of to-morrow share their dreams (share their dreams) with you and meee (WITH YOU AND MEEE!!!!!)

[moody, reflective whistling ensues]

If I Could Save Scorpions in a Bottle


If scorpions I could put in a bottle,
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to let them both fight, to see finally after a night
Who made lunch out of who---

If I could find big ones and small ones
I’d see if “size matters” is true;
I’d see if two Lights take a Heavy and then, again
Who would dine upon who.

[chorus]

But there never seems to be enough time
To do those fun perverted things
In the meat world...
For cage match fights and poisoned stings
I think that Wikipedia’s a neat world.

==

So we get back to bugs in a bottle
When all has been done and is through,
It’s a game each day just to see who’s at play, and who
They have power to screw.

If I had a list just for Vibber
Of jobs that still wait to be done--
It’d last for an age, and would run off the page, halfway
From the Earth to the Sun

[chorus]

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the very needed things
On the Wiki...
And that is why it ought to die, and why
I think Wikipedia’s so icky…

(For the sake of the children I’ll spare you all the rest)

aaagghhhh.........i'll talk, i'll talk........