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Shawnee123 08-03-2010 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 674171)
Fred Flintstone at the drive through restaurant: "I'll have a brontosaurus burger"

Order taker: "never heard of it"
And what kind of repercussions does this have for the Land of the Lost series (not the crap shit movie, the old series)?

Sundae 08-03-2010 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 674072)
Is it just because the first name is more pleasing to the American ear, and is easier for a kid to say? Or is it a sociopolitical conspiracy? Sure sounds like a foreigner who spoke a Romance language named the Torosaurus, while Triceratops is distinctly Germanic. Have we been selectively teaching kids the name of the dinosaur that the white guy discovered?
Had it been a truly German name it would have been Drei-ceratops. Tri is from the Latin. But yeah, Othniel Charles Marsh was from New York.

squirell nutkin 08-03-2010 01:03 PM
http://www.road8runner.com/home/auto...clair_logo.jpg

My favorite gas station as a kid.
BECAUSE IT HAD A DINOSAUR!

glatt 08-03-2010 01:20 PM
Soylent green is made of Brontosaurs. It's brontosaurs!!!

Shawnee123 08-03-2010 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin (Post 674237)
http://www.road8runner.com/home/auto...clair_logo.jpg

My favorite gas station as a kid.
BECAUSE IT HAD A DINOSAUR!
:eek:

Clodfobble 08-03-2010 04:09 PM



Edit to add: one tiny partly-audible NSFW word in there

sweetwater 08-03-2010 07:29 PM
I used to live close to the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT, USA - loved that place. Still love that place. It harbors the world's one and only "Brontosaurus" (with the quotes) and the museum's mascot is the torosaurus. I drove by the museum one morning and saw the activity around the big draped structure out front, and next time I went by I saw this.
But no more Triceratops? That is hard to accept. (so I won't, at least not now) :)

BrianR 08-05-2010 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 674075)
Triceratops, triangle, and tricycle are used to teach kids that certain suffixes represent numbers. At least, in my house.
[Grammar]"Tri" is a prefix, not suffix![/Nazi]

Flint 08-07-2010 10:33 PM
Oops. How the hell did I type that?

Razzmatazz13 08-09-2010 01:19 AM
With your fingers?


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