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Starfish have been used as a metaphor by countless good causes who picked up a story from Loren Eiseley’s book ''The Star Thrower'', in which thousands of starfish are washed ashore and a child starts throwing them back in the water so they don’t die. Her mother tells her it will make no difference, and the child looks at the starfish it is holding and says, ‘It will make a difference to this one.’ <ref> http://www.domini.com/about-domini/The-Starfi/ </ref>
 
Starfish have been used as a metaphor by countless good causes who picked up a story from Loren Eiseley’s book ''The Star Thrower'', in which thousands of starfish are washed ashore and a child starts throwing them back in the water so they don’t die. Her mother tells her it will make no difference, and the child looks at the starfish it is holding and says, ‘It will make a difference to this one.’ <ref> http://www.domini.com/about-domini/The-Starfi/ </ref>
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A passive sexual partner is sometimes described as a starfish because they ‘just lie there.’ Similarly, the phrase ‘chocolate starfish’ is slang for the anus. <ref> http://www.fact-index.com/s/se/sexual_slang.html</ref>
      
The best friend of beloved children’s TV cartoon character SpongeBob Squarepants, with whom he often holds hands, is a pink starfish named Patrick. The duo have become popular among gay men, and as such have been attacked by the prominent Christian evangelical organization Focus on the Family as part of a conspiracy trying to impose a pro-homosexual agenda on children. <ref>http://www.nospank.net/eisner.htm</ref>
 
The best friend of beloved children’s TV cartoon character SpongeBob Squarepants, with whom he often holds hands, is a pink starfish named Patrick. The duo have become popular among gay men, and as such have been attacked by the prominent Christian evangelical organization Focus on the Family as part of a conspiracy trying to impose a pro-homosexual agenda on children. <ref>http://www.nospank.net/eisner.htm</ref>
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