Today is National Sea Monkey Day, National Barbecue Day, and National Mimosa Day. Tossed them all into Google’s Gemini A.I. Image Maker and got…

Close but not quite. Gemini must be a young’un because back in the day the following ad was in every comic book and youth magazine.

Sea-Monkeys were actually Brine Shrimp which have the fascinating ability to be dried out while still alive. They could then be reanimated when placed back into water and lived for a short time, fascinating many a young boy. (I never fell for these fake pets or those X-Ray glasses they were always trying to get me to buy. I saved my money for candy instead of frivolous pursuits. And now look at me, diabetic and broke.)

Where was I? I seem to have missed my thought train. Oh yes. Sea-Monkeys. Rather than the illustration in the comic books or the wild beast dreamed up buy Gemini this is what they actually looked like:

It takes a little kid’s imagination to see these elementary creatures as Gemini apparently translated them…