UFO arrives on demand...

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Oh, well. If it doesn't happen there is a show on the HISTORY channel about dragons that night...

Speaking of which, has anyone here ever read a book that gives a pseudoscientific dissertation on how dragons could have existed? A roommate from college showed it to me, and it was pretty fun. I think the basic premise was a) they were essentially hydrogen balloons with armored heads, which is why they hid in caves, b) they didn't hoard gold - their stomach acid was powerful enough to digest anything but gold, so if they ate a knight, they'd leave a pile of gold in their cave, c) they hunted using hypnotic eyes to lure prey towards the cave d) the eplosive power of the hydrogen combined with the high-powered acid explains why no skeletons remain.

Fun book.

[Elspode]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Speaking of which, has anyone here ever read a book that gives a pseudoscientific dissertation on how dragons could have existed? A roommate from college showed it to me, and it was pretty fun. I think the basic premise was a) they were essentially hydrogen balloons with armored heads, which is why they hid in caves, b) they didn't hoard gold - their stomach acid was powerful enough to digest anything but gold, so if they ate a knight, they'd leave a pile of gold in their cave, c) they hunted using hypnotic eyes to lure prey towards the cave d) the eplosive power of the hydrogen combined with the high-powered acid explains why no skeletons remain.

Fun book.

Was it the Journal of Irreproducible Results ? I seem to recall having seen that in one of their anthologies many years ago.

Oh, I ADORE THE JIR! Someday, I'm going to have a paper published in it, I just know! So far though, some idiot somewhere on the top of Mt Everest or something always has managed to reproduce one of my results. I have high hopes for the space invasion come Thursday, though!

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Elspode

Was it the Journal of Irreproducible Results ? I seem to recall having seen that in one of their anthologies many years ago.

No, though that's fun too. This was a large-format book, similar in size to some of those pressed-fairies-type books, but thicker. It had tons of illustrations as well.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Speaking of which, has anyone here ever read a book that gives a pseudoscientific dissertation on how dragons could have existed? A roommate from college showed it to me, and it was pretty fun. I think the basic premise was a) they were essentially hydrogen balloons with armored heads, which is why they hid in caves, b) they didn't hoard gold - their stomach acid was powerful enough to digest anything but gold, so if they ate a knight, they'd leave a pile of gold in their cave, c) they hunted using hypnotic eyes to lure prey towards the cave d) the eplosive power of the hydrogen combined with the high-powered acid explains why no skeletons remain.

Fun book.

The Flight Of Dragons, back in the late Seventies. I've got a copy around here somewhere...