A baby dragon, or a bad joke?

Electronic Telegraph ^ | 24/01/2004 | Roger Highfield, Science Editor

[Shooter 2.5]

You beat me to it.

The world famous pictures of:
Nessie was a model approximately three feet tall.
Sasquatch was the guy's neighbor in a costume.

Don't forget the sleigh of hand artist who pulled cancerous growths out of people. The guy from "Taxi" learned the hard way about that one.

[Aracelis]

Awww...he's cute!

[SunkenCiv]

Good point. When I read just the text of the story (in a Delphi forum) I thought it could be some fetal version of something ordinary, or with wings attached to same. Appears fake fake fake. Particularly the eyes.

[sweetliberty]

"I hate it when stories like this have no photo's"

Nope; it's Bush's fault.

[SunkenCiv]

Pickled dragon mystery (other source)

[sweetliberty]

Well, it looks very cool, no matter what it is.

[sweetliberty]

"A Baby Dragon = an English version of a Jackalope."

LOL!

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[moonhawk]

The snake was on TV...looked real to me.

[Sockdologer]

*dies laughing* I should never freep while eating or drinking :P

[Sockdologer]

If it's real, will we clone it? If it's fake, is there an artist's signature?

[RightOnline]

No no no................you don't know how to play this game. Some twerp claims to have been Sasquatch (interesting with all the sightings all over the northwest and Canada for decades........or longer) and you believe it. Someone says they fake a Nessie photo and you discount eyewitness accounts and other evidence accumulated for many, many years from hundreds of people. You believe it.

Some rubes claim to have made crop circles with boards and rope.........and you can look at the mounds of photographs of incredibly sophisticated "crop circles" from around the world and believe these two rubes did them.

No, dude, YOU are the gullible one.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: The dragon is flawless, from the tiny teeth to the umbilical cord.

Must be one of Her Ankleship's ancestors... Or one of Bill's.

[Ichneumon]

Some rubes claim to have made crop circles with boards and rope.........

They did.

and you can look at the mounds of photographs of incredibly sophisticated "crop circles" from around the world and believe these two rubes did them.

Straw man fallacy (no pun intended). They may have started the craze, but then other pranksters "from around the world" played copycat when they saw how much of a fuss the circles generated.

It's interesting to note that the temporal and geographic pattern of the spread of the "circles" follows the pattern of the publicity given to them. For example, when local coverage in region X of country Y gives prominent attention to crop circles, then voila, there follow a number of local "sightings". And so on.

No, dude, YOU are the gullible one.

If you say so, Mr. It-Must-Be-Aliens.

[RightOnline]

Show me where I said it was "aliens". Show me your evidence that crop circle proliferation followed "publicity" (pretty interesting, since they've been around for many, many years......and have been concentrated in certain geographic areas, totally absent in others around the world). Also, show me how to make these designs with boards and ropes without breaking a single plant, all plants laying down perfectly aligned, highly complex images only visible from the air, leaving trace radiation, etc., etc. Let's not go into how these would be done all over the world by incredibly talented hoaxsters without ever being seen. Golly gee. We need to round 'em up and put them in Special Forces with those skills.

Try again, sparky.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Google "world's largest snake" and you will find that the snakes true length was about 22.5 feet. When scientists actually put a measuring tape to it, the zookeeper said that he had no idea how the snake shrank so much.

[aruanan]

Good point. When I read just the text of the story (in a Delphi forum) I thought it could be some fetal version of something ordinary, or with wings attached to same. Appears fake fake fake. Particularly the eyes.

Yes, but how "fake fake fake" does a platypus appear?

[moonhawk]

Darn!

Nothing cool is ever true, is it?

Thanks for the reply, though.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Seems not. Even the story about the guy who killed himself by strapping a JATO rocket to his Chevy Impala and lighting it off, only to smash into a cliff face at 350 mph 100 feet off the ground, has proven to be false.

Still a darned good story.

[Eaker]

Those are interesting links!

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Thanks,

[RightWingAtheist]

Are you scientist yourself? It sounds like your job is a great big Far Side cartoon.