Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

EurekAlert (AAAS) ^ | 10 October 2005 | David Greenberg

[js1138]

Changing the subject entirely, I took high school German in a small class with two native speakers. I only learned three words of German, and gefübart wasn't one of them. In fact it only gets one hit in google.

Where did you learn German?

[VadeRetro]

In fact it only gets one hit in google.

Can't imagine how it gets even one, given that I made it up the other night. I noticed you used it correctly, however.

I "learned" German serving two years in Berlin, 1972-1974 for the USAF. Never got very good at it, especially since I was under pressure to get much better at another language for much of that time. What I learned is GI pidgin German.

[VadeRetro]

OK, I checked your one hit. No wonder you used it correctly!

[VadeRetro]

gefübart = FUBARed. A word in your post of the other night suggested it.

[VadeRetro]

As in, "My computer is so FUBARed I see no option but to reformat again."

[Junior]

He pissed off someone who complained to a mod.

[js1138]

That's what I thought, but it was interesting to find your neologism used by a native speaker on a German forum.

[js1138]

The only "original" thing I've ever come up with is the Emperor of Utopia, Heili Unlikli.

[narby]

GI pidgin German.

Vee Gates?

(maybe one of Bill's kids?)

[Thatcherite]

Modernman is gone? Damn. What happened?

He questioned orthodoxy about the nature of homosexuality in a homosexual agenda thread. He believes that not all homosexuals can be "cured" even if they wanted to be. Apparently openly professing such a belief (which I do not comment on either way) is enough to get you banned. He was accused of promoting the homosexual agenda.

[VadeRetro]

At least I didn't pronounce "U-Bahn" (the subway) the same as Yuban coffee. My squadron's First Sergeant did.

("Ooo-bon")

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Can't we just drive down to the new creationist theme parks and look?

They have living dinosaurs.

[Stone Mountain]

That's sad. Sad and unnecessary. Thanks for the info.

[VadeRetro]

If your gun jams you don't need birth control.

And I was teasing YOU for not getting jokes. Just got this one. (Shakes head.)

[narby]

I spent a year at Hahn Flugplatz tending F-4Es between 1976 and 1978. Didn't learn very much german then, but I took several business trips back there in the last few years. Got a CD on german, and got out "on the economy" more in those trips than I did in the 70's.

The thing I regret not doing was traveling to Berlin back then and crossing over into the east. There was an effort going on to persuade us to make trips over there so we could keep established our right to do so. But I wouldn't have been able to take my family, and I'd have had to sew stripes on my Class A's, so I didn't do it.

I finally made the trip to Berlin a couple of years ago. Saw the "Checkpoint Charlie" museum. You'd be hard pressed to find where the wall was in the city, but I think I caught a glimpse of it from the train on the trip through. Apparently that's the only place it still exists is through farm fields outside of town.

[VadeRetro]

I was extremely discouraged from visiting across the wall, as in "threatened with prison."

One of the most emotional moments in my life was watching the Berliners dancing atop that wall in early 1989, around New Years if I recall. One guy wailing away on a trombone still sticks in my mind. It was a two shirtsleve moment at the time and I can still get a little choked and misty just remembering.

[Ichneumon]

In re of nothing, there's a moose call so effective the manufacturer encloses a birth-control pill in the event your gun jams.

LOL!!

[Ichneumon]

I saw a RoadRunner bird yesterday at close range. Those things look for all the world like you'd think a theropod dino would. Even has a nice little crown on its head like some dinos. They even *move* like you'd think a dino would.

Parrots sometimes get neurotic syndromes (or perhaps skin disorders) which cause them to eventually pluck out all of their own feathers. I've seen quite a few naked parrots as a result of this, and they look very distinctly reptilian. You could do a few close-up videos, and use them as stand-ins for nightmarish dinosaurs in some low-budget remake of "Land of the Lost".

[phantomworker]

Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

Yes. It must be true! Didn't George Flintstone have a fine feathered pet? Dino!

http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/information/index.php

(Sorry frustrating day at work with some dinosaur brains!) LOL