The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite and laughs at his own inability to pronounce that correctly, which Mike Mills kept trying to get him to do. Stipe says he loved Dr. Seuss as a kid but always pronounced his name the wrong way. The song's complete title is not featured in the lyrics, but there is the line "the sidewinder sleeps in a coil" as well as the later line "the sidewinder sleeps on its back". A sidewinder is a species of rattlesnake ("Crotalus cerastes"), and also an antique style of telephone, with a winding handle on the side. The lyrics frequently refer to making and
Fornasini's blind snake Four upper labials. Diameter of body 23 to 30 times in the total length. Tail short, slightly broader than long, ending in a spine. A very small snake, "T. fornasinii" prefers grasslands and coastal bush. Fornasini's blind snake Fornasini's blind snake ("Afrotyphlops fornasinii") is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to southern Africa. The specific name, "fornasinii", is in honor of Carlo Antonio Fornasini (1802–?), merchant and amateur botanist from Bologna, Italy, who collected the type specimen in Mozambique. He should not be confused with (1854–1931), Italian paleontologist and politician. Fornasini's blind snake has