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1 posted on 10/22/2014 6:29:16 AM PDT by C19fan
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Reminder of the great Far Side cartoon.

A caveman professor is pointing to the spiky ball end of a Stegosaurus tail and saying to the caveman class, And this is the Thagomizer, named after the late Thag, who discovered it.


2 posted on 10/22/2014 6:31:57 AM PDT by lurk
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While paleontologists used to say they were only for decoration, recent studies have suggested that the spiked, dexterous tails were actually used in combat.

Heavens to Betsy. You mean after all these years the science isn't even settled on THAT?

But we're absolutely certain that cow farts and SUVs are warming the globe.

3 posted on 10/22/2014 6:35:44 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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"...????...reminds me of a girl I knew at the pet shop

she had to leave after a few months because people kept

asking how big she was gonna get"

5 posted on 10/22/2014 6:36:48 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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I always laugh when I hear descriptions of plant-eating dinosaurs as “peaceful.”

The most deadly animal (outside of man and mosquitoes) in Africa is the Hippo, a plant eater.

Those big-framed water-dwelling dinos would be no different.


8 posted on 10/22/2014 7:07:57 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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Have you ever been whipped by a boxer? There is a reason that they get bobbed as puppies.

A good tail can do a lot of damage. Works with women, too.


11 posted on 10/22/2014 7:41:49 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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Let’s pray that Michael Moore does not grow one of those...


12 posted on 10/22/2014 7:44:13 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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“While paleontologists used to say they were only for decoration.”

This is what you get with the elite schools!? What dunder head never learned that nature enables these things for a purpose. Oh wait—these were for attracting the opposite sex.


13 posted on 10/22/2014 11:43:00 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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I strongly approve of science, but real science is never settled. Years ago, I used the stegosaurus tail as an example to teach my kids that science can be wrong and that they should consider the facts for themselves. It’s nice to be proven right sooner instead of later.


20 posted on 11/02/2014 4:07:22 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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