Gennice's breakdown when her laces come undone references Harding's bootlace incident at the 1994 Olympics. Names include mermaid's tresses, cat's gut or sea-catgut, bootlace weed, sea-twine, and mermaid's fishing line. In the United Kingdom, bolo ties are known as bootlace ties. The bootlace worm is in the phylum Nemertea or ribbon worms. The largest nemertean is the bootlace worm, "Lineus longissimus". Bootlace worms may grow very long but are usually only in width.