All living things are classified in one of twelve categories,
or Shemps. These twelve shemps, containing all life,
constitute the Strompumia:
| Shemp
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| Description
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| 1st Shemp
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| Simiospurcodamnati
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| People
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| 2nd Shemp
| | Dandiophangia
| | Enlightened mammals, except people
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| 3rd Shemp
| | Prologoningia
| | Other mammals with the power of speech
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| 4th Shemp
| | Bellareoforia
| | All other clean mammals, and birds, and butterflies
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| 5th Shemp
| | Erratophilia
| | Unclean mammals
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| 6th Shemp
| | Pontificatia
| | Dinosaurs and pterodactyls
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| 7th Shemp
| | Semolinia
| | Small dinosaurs, flying fish, and other reptiles
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| 8th Shemp
| | Lozenataria
| | Amphibians but not newts
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| 9th Shemp
| | Prefabralaria
| | Marine non-mammalian invertebrates without shells
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| 10th Shemp
| | Sinclaria
| | Things with shells, hants, and moths
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| 11th Shemp
| | Ullilillalia
| | Fish, worms, and head lice
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| 12th Shemp
| | Cerberia
| | Terrestrial arthropods
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| 13th Shemp
| | Arberia
| | Trees and sea-weed
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| 14th Shemp
| | Phenopateria
| | Other things with external genitalia
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| 15th Shemp
| | Ingroria
| | Flowering plants, bromeliads, and ivy
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| 16th Shemp
| | Bovrilloria
| | Non-flowering plants, grasses, and ferns
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| 17th Shemp
| | Macrophalangia
| | Microbes, but not viruses
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| 18th Shemp
| | Pseudohominia
| | Virusses
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| 19th Shemp
| | Rhendophria
| | Very large molecules
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Etymology: from Greek,
στριμώχνω (strimokno) = to cram, pack full;
πύλη (puli) = gateway.
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