BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 17 Apr 07 - 07:48 AM

YES!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 09:58 PM

Severn said, "(Gawd! I'm dating my self. But then talking about T-Rexes, I'm probably Carbon-14 dating myself.)......

How can you date yourself?

Do you ask your Dad if you can take you out - Do you have to have you back by 10.30?

Shall I get MY coat and join the lads in the woodshed??

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Slag
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 03:06 AM

I read most all of them. I wish I still had them. One way or another it would enhance my retirement!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: kendall
Date: 15 Apr 07 - 05:33 PM

I'd like to see Morticia's husband, Idris, barbacue that sucker!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cause the Road Rage?
From: Severn
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 06:26 PM

What! Nobody's brought in Shatner and "Star T-Rex"?
"Spock, Spock, Spock, SPA-A-A-ACK!"



But Roy Acuff already did it all up as a Country Song:

"I saw the Rex on the highwa-a-a-ay,
But I didn't hear nobody pray......"



According to Gregor Mendel, the question should actually be, "What do you get when you cross a road with a T-Rex?"


This from the road itself afterwards--"T-Rex! You've crossed me for the last time!"

....Not to be confused, of course, with "Gregor Mendel! You've crossed me for the last time!"


Actually it stood by the side of the road and hitched a ride.....WAIT! that was Dinah-SHORE that wanted to see the USA in a Cheverolet. Sorry!
(Gawd! I'm dating my self. But then talking about T-Rexes, I'm probably Carbon-14 dating myself.)......


Hey! Does anyone else remember "Turok-Son Of Stone" comic books?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 05:56 PM

Oi, Polshaw... Woodshed... NOW!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 04:25 PM

Sorry Mandotim - didn't notice your earlier post!

Maybe Mr B swerved to avoid the T-rex crossing th...

Oh well. Maybe not.

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Slag
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 02:36 PM

MMMMM-MMMMMM! Suthen' Fried Chiskin! And NOW Suthen' fried TRex! Think of the DRUMSTICKS!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 01:04 PM

Gees... imagine a T Rex with a runny nose.. those tiddly arms, he'd not be able to reach his pocket handkerchief, let alone his nose!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 11:49 AM

Has anyone postulated a Dino flu akin to a bird flu that helped wipe them off the evolutionary map? No doubt is was part of a number of things with the climate being at the top of the list as well as oxygen counts becoming half of what they had been.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 10:44 AM

Dave - Mandotim beat you to it and is presently in the woodshed awaiting punishment... I suggest you join him.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 10:05 AM

To avoid the mini running into a tree?

Oh dear...

I'll get my coat and post apologies to all fans.

D,

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Apr 07 - 09:36 AM

Who needs a nekkid chicken.. just look at a Condor.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 12:53 PM

Why did the T-Rex cross the road/ To get to the La Brea tarpits. "Taste's like chicken? Yum, yum sho am good!"

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 12:42 PM

It tastes as much like chicken as alligator does.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Grimmy
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 12:23 PM

.....maybe I'll just flash my headlights. Then again, maybe not ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: MMario
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 12:08 PM

Trex lurking in chickens - moose lurking in otters - ; The Science Fiction book 'Mirabile' is a coolection of tales about what happens when space colonists fold "extra" dna into their stock in order to save space - and then loose the guidebook.

among other things - the Kangeroo Rex

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 12:00 PM

Look up the story "The Calibrated Alligator" about the growth potential of reptiles and their potential as food. And yes, alligator does taste like chicken.

One morning, I was on my way to my job [at 5 AM God help me] and saw a Rhode Island Red crossing Ocean Avenue. At that point, it struck me that the real reason the chicken crossed the road was to avoid being the center of attention at a Santoria sacrificial ceremony.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 11:23 AM

"Although other theropods rivaled or exceeded T. rex in size, it was the largest known tyrannosaurid and one of the largest known land predators, measuring over 13 metres (43 feet) in length and up to 7.5 tons in weight."

I think the T. Rex has the right of way- and the left, and center...

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Grimmy
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 11:19 AM

If a T Rex ever crossed the road in front of me then I'm gonna brake hard, blast the horn, get out of the vehicle and shake my fist at him 'cos hey, who has the right of way here anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Stu
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 10:53 AM

"One has only to look at a nekkid de-feathered chicken to have figured out some kind of dinosaur was lurking in the avian gene pool"

Sure thing, but I think it's the avians lurking in dinosauria . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Scoville
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 10:49 AM

You think sandhills are primitive, try watching pelicans. Conspicuously pteranodon-like.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: John Hardly
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 09:03 AM

Foghorn T-Rexhorn.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 08:58 AM

To get away from the asteroid.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 08:53 AM

why did the Dadooronronadon cross the road?

to get to the middle...........................

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: leeneia
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 08:48 AM

Recently I went to Grand Island Nebraska to view the sandhill cranes. I believe cranes are among the more primitive birds. Take a look at these images

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=sandhill+crane+image&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights=&safe=images

and ask yourself how far a crane is removed from certain dinosaurs.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Bee
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 08:13 AM

One has only to look at a nekkid de-feathered chicken to have figured out some kind of dinosaur was lurking in the avian gene pool.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Stu
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 07:30 AM

With 10,000 extant species of dinosaurs to choose from, funny how T. rex is closer to a chicken than anything else.

I'm looking forward to a Theropod Tikka Massala tomorrow night after a few ales.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Grimmy
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 05:01 AM

So not only did it have all those teeth, but it flew as well. Smeg! You wouldn't want one of those rascals nesting in your back garden.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: GUEST,lsd
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:53 AM

To meet Micky Finn

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: mandotim
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:48 AM

To drive his Mini into a tree on the other side?
I'll get me coat...
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 07:18 PM

To leave footprints that some idjit would mistake for the prints of a giant human, thereby supposedly proving that dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time. Old Rex has been snickering about it ever since.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: John Hardly
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 06:37 PM

To bang a gong?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 06:29 PM

That's 'Meet the Robinsons' - a film that Limpit loved and I slept through - except for that little snippet! It gets used a lot around here for when someone (Limpit) wants something she can't be bothered to get up and get and wants me to pass to her.

The same premise of time travel was used in an episode of the UK SciFiSitCom 'Red Dwarf'. Pete the sparrow gets in the way of the time paddle converter and devolves millions of years into a T Rex, wreaking havoc about the space ship.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 06:26 PM

...and the rampaging T-rexes search out all the ethanol plants 'cause that's where all the corn went. After eating it all, they all head for Iowa where the rest of the corn in standing in the field. After devouring all that corn, and trampling the field of deams all to hell, they all die of starvation.

Donald Trump makes billions collecting T-rex bones. After that, every museum in the world is able to buy it's own T-rex skeletons from him.

Trump is asked how much he made on the deal??

His answer, "I don't know exactly, but it's not chicken feed!!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 05:08 PM

Scoville,
I had the exact same image! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Scoville
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:50 PM

I'm laughing at the ads for that new animated movie where the T. rex is chasing a little boy into a corner, where the rex can't reach him.

The villain yells for the rex to grab the boy, and the rex roars something back that translates into, "I have a big head . . . and little arms!", while waving his useless little forelegs. Cracks me up.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:37 PM

I see a movie here...

"Revenge of the Chickens" - A mysterious series of genetic mutations at a chicken farm results in chickens that transform overnight into rampaging T-Rex's. Bursting out of their overcrowded and filthy wire cages, they go forth to wreak vengeance on the poultry industry and its customers!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 04:08 PM

BTW, the answer to the question is "Who would stop him?"

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:54 PM

Why did it cross the road?
Because it was stapled to a T-rex!!!

Puts a whole new light on the idea of "T-rex caccitore"...

Or chicken-fried T-rex...

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:46 PM

Or raise a few...

That will give Col. Sanders pause.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: MMario
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:45 PM

But does T. Rex taste like chicken? that is the burning question. Hopefully they will someday be able to accumulate enough protien for the taste test.

Subject: BS: Why did the T. Rex cross the road?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 03:41 PM

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/04/12/dinosaur.reut/index.html