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shaysdays ([info]shaysdays) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-03-02 17:14:00


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Entry tags:duck-billed fire-breathing dragon, fun with fundies, ideas for pokemon

Dinosaur Wank- Big, Old, and No One's Really Positive What Happened
Okay, so someone links to a relatively cute article about the Top Ten Myths About Dinos on a science forum. (Myth 1, Dinosaurs coexisted with humans, Myth 7, Dinosaurs were slow and sluggish animals, etc.) Right off the bat, someone starts in on 'evangelicals' probably not accepting #1, thus sending out some sort of subsonic signal across the internet for everyone with a bible and black helicopter fetish to show up and proclaim they are really the sane ones, really truly.

jteamjohn kicks off the WTFery with, Why don't you try to understand if what "evangelicals" believe may be true since almost anything we know about what happen to the dinosuars is myth or unexplainabe. I believe in my heart that dinos and man where here together. It is because of evidence that I have studied leads me to this belief. I believe man saw dinos becasue one of them wrote about them, Job.

Aaand they're off.

Is the Bible a peer-reviewed document?
Didn't I see cave drawings of 'dinasaurs' and man together?
Um, carbon dating is like guessing and therefore science is faith-based so haha, suck it, scientists*!
Did you know hippos don't have tails that look like trees? That means the Bible mentioned dinosaurs!
Dinosaurs and people lived together in a vegetarian utopia but I await your ignorant responses**!
You know, if I put what you "believe" in "quotes," it makes me look more "right."
Well, I was taught about Pluto, but now there's no planet Pluto, so science must have erased it!

And that's just page one and two. It goes on to name-calling, off-kilter assumptions about people of faith, a random quote by Pliny about Vesuvius from out of nowhere, and...

*screeches to a halt*

Dinosaurs could breathe... flame? Really? On page 3:

The fermenting plants in the stomach of the Parasaurolophus produced a combustible gas that ignited when the dinosaur channeled it through it's headcrest and out it's nostrils, as a defensive weapon. The Parasaurolophus was a "fire breathing dragon."

....Yes. Dinosaurs? Totes breathed flame. Don't believe him? Just look at the dinosaur's head and diet! It's obvious.

It goes on for quite a bit longer, but once I got to fire-breathing parasaurs, I knew I had to share.

*Some statements may be wildly paraphrased to make them funnier.
**That one was, um, not.



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[info]verpon
2008-03-03 03:09 am UTC (link)
Reading the ongoing debate about whether a prehistoric duck billed fire breathing dragon existed or not is just utterly brilliant. When a debate starts sounding like a brainstorming session for new pokemon designs, you know you're onto something good.

Are you really having that much difficulty with the descriptions?
Is it possible for you to momentarily set aside the evolution concept and objectively look at the evidence of this creature?
A swamp feeding reptile with a hollow tube running from it's midsection up through and over it's head and venting out bone tube nostrils.


It just goes on and on and on and on and on.

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[info]limyaael
2008-03-03 03:17 am UTC (link)
Is it possible for you to momentarily set aside the evolution concept

I love this. I think from now on I shall refer to myself as someone who cannot set aside the evolution concept.

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[info]gairid
2008-03-03 03:29 am UTC (link)
Bone Tube Nostrils! Oh, that has a lovely ring to it!

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[info]dragonfangirl
2008-03-03 05:53 am UTC (link)
What would that be in Latin? It's gotta be in Latin.

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[info]gairid
2008-03-04 03:25 am UTC (link)
Hmmm. michina is 'nostrils' in Latin. I don't think I ever knew how to say 'tube'. Bone. Ossis? Shoot. I took Latin in high school and that was a LONG time ago!

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[info]shaysdays
2008-03-03 04:12 am UTC (link)
Hooray! I was hoping to bring some funny back, or at least some good old-fashioned O.o

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2008-03-03 03:11 pm UTC (link)
I love you both for this comment and your Garth icon.

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[info]verpon
2008-03-03 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Rick Dagless would know whether a fire breathing dinosaur existed or not. He'd have found one when he was freeing those hostages in 'nam with Sanchez.

Garth of course would have featured it in one of his books.

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[info]caffeine_fairy
2008-03-03 03:41 pm UTC (link)
My husband got to inerview him and his manager, but they threatened to walk out when hubby asked him what his favourite metaphor was.

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