The Story
 

It's Origin
 

Analysis
 

Links

The list of places you can find this story on the net is far too broad to include here, this is a just a smattering of what's out there for the intrepid researcher to discover. I've tried to include a variety of stories so that one can get a feel for the diversity that is out there. Of particular interest are the poetic, and eastern versions...


http://www.nauticom.net/www/jenglish/starfish.txt

http://www.iconn.net/robroy/starfish.htm
 

http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jayson/description/starfish_prose.html
 

http://www.eng.iastate.edu/~girishv/poem.html
 

http://www.pawsafe.org/difference.html
 

http://www.concentric.net/~tlshell/starfish.html
 

http://www.shopthenet.net/greyhound/current/itmakes.html
 

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~setlur/star-fish.html
 

http://www.lawlib.uh.edu/~jared/flinger.html
 

http://www.enter.net./~drano/earth.html
 

http://www.noogenesis.com/pineapple/starfish.html

http://www.cyberhighway.net/~pbowcut/star.htm
 

http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/prevention/starfish.html
 

http://www.bbbs.org/poem.html
 

http://www.usa.net/~solomon/why.html
 

http://www.catt.citri.edu.au/emergency/docs/poem2.html

http://www.jvm.com/callahan-ms/kelley.htm

http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/wisebuy/gaucher/differen.htm

http://www.dogpatch.org/matters.html (Poetic version) 

http://www.ismi.net/bigbro/differe.htm

http://www.cldc.howard.edu/~ibattle/makdiff.html

Here's an Ancient Eastern Proverb which contains no flinging, in which the Starfish are gently deposited in the waves http://soli.inav.net/~starfish/starfish.htm
 

Here's a graphical version http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/starfish.htm
 

Here's a more feminist account http://cafe.berkeley.edu/~erin/starfish_story.html 
 

http://www.newnorth.net/alr/starfish.html

http://logic.csc.cuhk.edu.hk/~s936899/the_diff.html

http://logic.csc.cuhk.hk/~s936899/starfish.html

http://www.cyberhighway.net/~pbowcut/star.htm

http://www.aracnet.com/~rlucas/

http://www.pd.sk.k12.ri.us/y2y/Mission_Statement.html

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at starfishman@oocities.com