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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/18/2005 : 03:40:20
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This comes as small suprise, as my brother (the smart one, the one with the high school diploma) put it forth in a conversation concerning the Loch Ness nonsense many years ago. According to him; as plesiosaurs were inhabitants of relitivly shallow seas, with that neck, it made sense that they sort of grazed the bottom. And then he went off on a speculation that they perhaps preyed upon some sort of soft-bodied creatures, possibly cephalopods like octopus.
Well, he was close. Finding gastroliths with the fossils might not have been a dead give-away -- today's crocodilians use them as did the dinosaurs -- but, in conjunction with that neck, it should have at least hinted that this guy might be a clam-digger.
"By their copralites and their bromalites shall ye know of them."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
1536 Posts |
 Posted - 10/18/2005 : 08:55:10 [Permalink]
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Good read, Filthy.
This is way off topic but...
A catholic friend of my mothers use to refer to noncatholics as 'long necks', I finally asked him why, and he told me that after noncatholics die their necks get stretched from trying to look over the 'pearly gates' to see what was going on in heaven.
It was said with his tongue firmly in check.
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