When I was eight, I remember being asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I joked, "hmm, a triceratops." Nobody registered amusement at all, and I couldn't figure out why. Were the other kids unable to appreciate my mastery of the absurd, or were they saddened by my evident brain damage? Either way the joke is on me, I grew up thrice as horny.
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I grew up thrice as horny.
You may not be a triceratops, but at least you managed to be a horny toad.
That joke is probably as lame, if not even more
Yeah. The problem with people not knowing when I'm joking never did go away, though. For instance, that story really happened. And Trevor if you ever read this, laugh at people's jokes you fucking weirdo.
Come over to Germany. We live the dry humour.
I have toyed with the idea, after moving to the UK a few years ago. There's an odd appeal to living in increasingly severe cultures. Germany, then perhaps North Korea, Switzerland...
Germany, then perhaps North Korea, Switzerland
One of those things is not like the others.... Never liked Switzerland myself.
asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I joked, “hmm, a triceratops.”
I grew up thrice as horny.
So, more like a Styracosaurus maybe?
Someday I'll be someone's favorite mammal!
Nice try. There a cats and capybara. You don't stand a chance.
But for dinos there is also T-Rex and Velociraptor.
Sooo.... Maybe!
Naw.
Steggo is best-o
;)
It’s hard to beat a thagomizer.
I love that we have no idea what the back plates were for.
Maybe species identification, thermo regulation, and display. Maybe also in mating displays.
But we don’t even know how they were on the outside- external feature? Attached to each other? Burried under a truly amazing amount of chonkerness?
I mean really.
Imagine as one might that stegos were basically the camels of dinosaurs, and the plates sole purpose was to keep their fatty backsides from flopping over
ol triceratops was always my favorite ❤️
Power Rangers probably helped quite a lot here