Jan 25 2003, 3:01 pm
In response to Lesbian Assassin
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Garthor
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And I was wondering... where do you stand on the wet-trout-slapping debate?
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Can you say, Jurassic park?
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I think you missed the point... he was wasn't saying that sabertooths aren't cats, he was saying that "nor are [the animal in question] small", and changing the word "tiger" (misleading and discarded nomenclature) to "cat" (more current term). They are, broadly speaking, cats (as much as mammoths are pachyderms)... but they're not tigers, or any other specific kind of cat that's around today.
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Sabretooth Tiger died out long ago for natural reasons.. No catastrophe, no hunting to extinction. The tusks were too clumsy when eating whats believed amongst many is that they died of starvation when food became scarce
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*Impales Lesbian Assassin with a wet noodle*
There, didnt use any of the three words you will be killing people over in the future. | |
There are many unexplored areas of our world, I wouldnt put it past mother nature to shovel @*$& in our faces when we decide to explore these areas thoroughly.
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Lesbian Assassin wrote:
Here's another fun fact from the future: when I rule all of creation (four or five years from now), anyone who uses the phrase "slapped (or whipped or lashed) with a wet noodle" will be strangled with his or her own wet intestines. With the use of cloning technology, even the most flagrant past violator (Ann Landers) could be brought to justice again and again for perpetuating this miscarriage of language. You're contesting my seat as evil overlord of the universe, which is planned to occur in the immediate future? *narrows his eyes* I hope you know that this means war. | |
THE Brama Bull wrote:
There are some good points and bad about this. A Good point is you are introducing new spiecies to the enviroment making the ecosystems more stable. History has taught us that the introduction of new species not only doesn't make ecosystems more stable, but also winds up actually damaging the ecosystem, forcing human intervention which usually winds up destroying the ecosystem even further. | |
I'm not a sabertooth tiger fan or anything, nor do I care about them heh but I remember reading some paper awhile back saying that sabertooth tigers were found to be more towards another family other then cats, in fact the way they attack is much different not really relating to cats, I'm not sure which family they said it most likely would fit into better, but I'm probably not remembering it right.
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Asguard wrote:
They are quite a big species, but they are very small Accoridng to my mum (who has a degree in Archeology and Anthropology), there were hundreds, if not thousands of species of dinosaur that were smaller than the Mammoth. Also - if I understand the timeline correctly - the did not largely inhabit the same time-periods... maybe *some* overlap, surely. | |
Dareb wrote:
Why would either of you want to rule THIS world? Because no one has finished building Jump-engines or Warp-drive yet... | |
Lesbian Assassin wrote:
No, I didn't forget it... it bears no relevance. The phrase is one of the dumbest ones ever invented. Adding "giant" into it doesn't make it any better. I think if you take the time to read the two volumes of Mull and Rucker's immortal History of White People in America -- now sadly out of print but probably available through your local library network -- you will see that this colorful expression is the product of a rich, vibrant, and Velveeta-laden culture. Mmmm, Velveeta. | |
Gughunter wrote:
...you will see that this colorful expression is the product Well, then! If it's Velveeta (Velvetta?) - it's gotta be good! Or, was that Campbells Soup? Or, Kellogg's? Hmmm... Anyway - wet noodle slapping is a fine American past-time. How dare Lexy go against tradition! =) (Funny how this thread no longer has anything to do with the Topic anymore...) | |