All you dinosaur species step forward - Page 2

Shawnee123 · 08-03-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet

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

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

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

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

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

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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