me me me me me meme (w/ thanks 2 KAZ)

it's got something to do with

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5IVE

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only I can't remember quite what, see five is a very special number

and it's distracted me, momentarily

did you know that five is special? you have five body parts coming off your torso because we are all basically evolved from a five legged starfish - only the mouth and guts part (which would have been in the middle of the body cavity of a star fish) worked its way along into one of the original legs and became slightly more specialised. . .
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the middle section of the body where the five parts met, then had to get bigger to accommodate the digestive tracts of the gut as it developed and the associated organs, liver and kidneys; and the breathing apparatus, lungs; and the one thing that keeps the whole lot going, heart; and the bit that told the mouth if what was going into it was good or bad split into two - a tasting smelling thinking brain and a sitting around full-of-acid-stomach, and each of those went their own way. . .
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I like starfish
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all those arms/legs
to wrap around each other
when your mouthes meet
and no brain to get in the way and screw it up!

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I found a pile of dead starfish on a beach in Goa once the fishermen had picked them up in their nets and didn't want them, no nutritional value it would seem, so threw them away; I took them home and bleached the fishy smell out, then covered them in sweetie wrappers and chocolate foils and threaded thin wire adorned with beads around the legs; then I made them into xmas cards with a decoration you could remove and hang on your tree (some people thought the starfishes were made of chocolate and unwrapped them hoping to eat them) (YUK)
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but I'm distracted and rambling, and I suspect I've written all this before
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I'll think about KAZ's meme and report back. . .