August 20, 2007

Dinosaur Poster
FOUND by Mike Souza in San Diego, California
I found this dinosaur poster at an intersection near my house when I was walking home from the local market. It contains lots of dinosaur facts as well, as some more subjective statements ("Dinosaurs fight bad animals"). This is one of my all-time favorite finds and I can only hope that the person who created the poster got the appropriate recognition for their creation before losing/disposing of it at the intersection of 30th and B.
Elliot in Chicago
Now I know that some dinosaurs walk on two legs. Thank you Found Magazine!
+ August 20, 2007 12:10 AM +
steve in California
dinosaurs rule!
+ August 20, 2007 12:58 AM +
chrome toaster in the kitchen
the Finder mentions that it's a poster. I wonder how big the original is. I love the name "Dinosaur Jim"!

(I also wonder if this Mike Souza is the famous Mike Souza of professional poker and zombie squirrels!)
+ August 20, 2007 01:48 AM +
tash in awe of this cool poster
he looks like such a happy dinosaur.
they used "other weapons" to protect themselves hey? cool, i like to imagine all the herbivorous dinosaurs packing heat
+ August 20, 2007 01:55 AM +
Jello in Mold
Great find! This is almost poetic. I especially like the last three lines:

"Some dinosaurs look like chickens.
Some dinosaurs look like alligators.
Some could fly."

There's hope enough for us all in this piece.
+ August 20, 2007 02:29 AM +
Arabella in Oxford
Woah! Coincidence, last night I was bored and started drawing dinosaurs from this book I have called How To Draw Dinosaurs and then I look at this and it's a dinosaur. I drew one that looked almost exactly the same as that one too except from a different angle. It's an Apatosaurus (formerly Brontosaurus), I think. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1029/1174610836_5203
+ August 20, 2007 03:25 AM +
Bach's toccata and fugue in D-minor, becoming very aroused
Pardon my interruption: Midlife Crisis, where are you? xoxo

Carry on.
+ August 20, 2007 03:34 AM +
Lou in Canada
It looks like a big piece of paper that a teacher had at the font of the room and then asked the students to say everything they know about dinosaurs.
+ August 20, 2007 06:31 AM +
Kacie in and out
Wait wait wait wait....

Dinosaurs?
The only things I know that look like that are JESUS HORSES? Where's the part where it says that Jesus rode a t-rex in to smite all the non-believers and Jews and heathens and gays?

What are they teaching these kids in school if not REAL HISTORY and the good word of God?
+ August 20, 2007 06:36 AM +
James @ FOUND in NYC
That's pretty funny Arabella-- I was up drawing dinosaurs last night, too! The Guardian UK "Life and Health" section has a ton of fun guides, including step-by-step drawing instructions for about thirty different animals. After drawing a few janky T-Rexes, I had to call it a night.

I love today's find (thanks, Mike!). There was another great dino-find back in May, too:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/826
+ August 20, 2007 06:46 AM +
Curious in Charlotte, NC
When I die, I want my friends and family to make a poster of me, and put all my traits, qualities and quirks on it. I wonder if two paleontologists will become enemies over me?
+ August 20, 2007 06:46 AM +
metta in asheville
looks like two different handwritings/pens....group project?
+ August 20, 2007 08:06 AM +
djinn in reminisce-ment .. is that a word?
Reminds me of something I would have made when I went through my dinosaur fascination phase when I was a kid. Do all kids do that? I hope so.
+ August 20, 2007 08:42 AM +
banana in a bowl of cheerios
Wow, only 14 comments this morning, I'm blown away!

on the find; FUN! I was always the first in school to make posters like this, I hated doing normal reports. My little brother wanted to be a paleontologist when he was little. Only he pronounced it, paleontogalist! This find makes me think of him.
+ August 20, 2007 08:55 AM +
Bare feet in s
I like how the maker ( of this said poster ) got all that info into it. The lines are pretty straight too, even at the legs.
I hope he got an A for this project. PS: I think I meet SALT saturday night, either that of some guy who has his same list. (At the Woodward Cruise in an old Caddy)
+ August 20, 2007 09:14 AM +
Clover in the lawn
Arabella, I love it when stuff like that happens. Jello, I like the lines you picked out, it's inspirational.

Not everbody was into dinosaurs. I was into fairies. But it's really not that different.

This is a beautiful find. Now I'm going to go look for the jesus horse (admitting that I didn't really read the text all that carefully yet.)
+ August 20, 2007 09:17 AM +
D in osaur Buddy
I wonder if they were on a field trip or if they had a guest speaker in school. I miss field trips. I have the day off so maybe I'll go on a field trip. Who's going to be my buddy?
+ August 20, 2007 09:19 AM +
Clover in the lawn
"Dinosaurs that died near lakes became fossils." The next time someone asks me how old I am I will simply say, "I died by a lake." Do you think they will get it?

Back to reading. This is a lot to take in.
+ August 20, 2007 09:24 AM +
Jade in a tired cloud of sleep
I love this find! It's art, it's informative, it's poetic, it's cute & clearly took some time to make.
I love how children think.
This find makes me smile - if I found this, I'd frame it & hang it up.
+ August 20, 2007 09:26 AM +
Kittyspit in the gutter
That's some interesting dino information ! I never saw a dinosaur that looked like a huge fish , but I haven't studied up on them either .
+ August 20, 2007 09:28 AM +
Clover in the lawn
I can't find the jesus horse. Can someone help me?
+ August 20, 2007 09:28 AM +
NaughtyAElf in a soggy, sorry mess
Oh, great Find! I used to love projects like this in school, flat reports just lacked that something. With the different handwriting styles, I'm supporting the group project theory.

I hope I die by a lake someday. :)
+ August 20, 2007 09:30 AM +
Clover in the lawn still working her way down the first cup of coffee
oh now i get it. evolution. creationism. duh.
+ August 20, 2007 09:30 AM +
Gigi in that old Paris cafe
How beautiful!
So much information inside the outline of the jovial dinosaur.
I'd like to commission a whole series of these from that child.
Beautiful. This find brings me joy.
+ August 20, 2007 09:36 AM +
D in osaur Buddy
In case you're interested in these enemies: www.niagaramuseum.com/cope_article.htm
+ August 20, 2007 09:38 AM +
Deanna in Maryland
this is dinomite!!
+ August 20, 2007 09:39 AM +
toast in the toaster
this is a very good drawn dinodsaur!

"fight bad animals" has to be the best line in this whole poster
+ August 20, 2007 09:59 AM +
Jay in the Steel City
Mike, please tell me you framed this and hung it on your wall. This dinosaur is a fucking superhero.
+ August 20, 2007 10:00 AM +
Freon in her bare feet
This is prolly my favorite find! I'm in love with the happy dinosaur and hope he's in a place of honor now instead of on the street. Bet the creator/loser is missing him.
+ August 20, 2007 10:21 AM +
Mickey B, in desperate need of a nap,
This find is so fun, it rocks my world! :)

It takes me back to being a teacher and all the fun things I liked to do with the kiddos during dinosaur units. I never made a super cool poster like this with them, but I wish I had! My favorite activities were the campy dinosaur songs!

"Triceratops had three long horns, a tail in back, and a beak where his nose was. Triceratops had three long horns, and a tail in the back!
Boom boom boom..."

Anyone?
+ August 20, 2007 10:26 AM +
klutch in albuquerque
Mickey B., can you give us a "sung to the tune of" hint? I need an ear worm like that to get me through the day.
+ August 20, 2007 10:39 AM +
Kuma-chan in digo
This is a great find. I love that it's smiling.

It looks like a diplodocus or a brontosaurus to me.
+ August 20, 2007 10:45 AM +
Souza
Chrome toaster - professional poker, no, but zombie squirrels, yes. Do we know each other?

Jay and Freon - the dino isn't framed, but is proudly hanging on the side of the fridge where it gets lots of attention.

Here's another close up of the body - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zombiesquirrels/201302
+ August 20, 2007 11:42 AM +
Rob in Los Angeles
Wow, these are some kids who can spell.
+ August 20, 2007 12:32 PM +
Alice in Wonderland
djinn - I totally had a dinosaur-obsession stage too. Seriously... and OBSESSION. I must have been about seven, and even as a girl, dinosaurs were my life.
Arabella- Amazing drawing! I love the carpet in the background, it just adds that little flare.
As for the find- so fun! I wish I got to make fun posters with facts drawn oh so neatly.
and Jesus horses are my favorite!
+ August 20, 2007 12:38 PM +
Don't play that Bach or even Mozart too loud, lest I become more aroused in my bored state today as I lick my lips
Very cool find.

I like the dino's smile...kind of confident.
He knows he's full of interesting and odd facts.

Souza - I'd frame this bad boy!

I want to go on a field trip now. Somebody brought up field trips and all I think about are the ones where I'd 'get lost' behind some exhibit or try to get locked in the museum overnight. With someone cute of course.

Never happened. I always got caught by a teacher.

Sorry - this has nothing to do with the find. Except that the find reminded me of field trips.

I think I'll go draw some dinosaurs ...to get my mind off of things....improper.

+ August 20, 2007 12:55 PM +
Wendy the pedant in austin
ATTENTION! I would hereby like to disabuse you all of several very wrong notions about dinosaurs that are still taught in our schools (apparently). There are other wrong or partially wrong things in the find, but these are the wrongest.

Some dinosaurs looked like big fish
Some could fly

No dinosaurs looked like big fish. If it had flippers or fins, it was NOT a dinosaur. It was an ancient reptile that was a very distant cousin of dinosaurs. NO DINOSAURS SWAM.

If it could fly, it was NOT a dinosaur. Flying ancient reptiles were closer cousins to dinosaurs than swimming ancient reptiles, but NO DINOSAURS FLEW.

And while i'm at it, that stupid Dimetrodon that makes its way into every dinosaur toy collection is wrong too. You know the one, the squatty, bent legged one with the huge sail on its back? NOT a dinosaur! It was actually a precursor to mammals and lived during the Permian Period, millions of years before dinosaurs even existed.

End of lecture. Please spread the word and re-educate your deluded offspring.
+ August 20, 2007 12:59 PM +
Mickey B in need of puddin' pops
klutch- I don't have an exact to the tune of hint, but it's pretty close to 'The Wheels on the Bus' I think. It's hard to do this in text, but if you know the tune, the emphasis corresponds something like this:

(The WHEELS on the BUS go ROUND and ROUND)
TRIceraTOPS has THREE long HORNS
(ROUND and ROUND, ROUND and ROUND)
A TAIL in the BACK, and a BEAK where his NOSE is
(The WHEELS on the BUS go ROUND and ROUND)
TRIceraTOPS has THREE long HORNS...
(I don't know the next line of the bus one, sorry)
And a TAIL in the BACK...
Then you go boom boom boom and then sing it a little faster, over and over until you can't go any faster.

I know that's not the best description, and it might not be all that helpful, sorry! What about this instead:

To the tune of "Are You Sleeping?"
Pterodactyl, pterodactyl, where are you? where are you?
Flying over mountains, flying over treetops, how 'bout you? how 'bout you?
+ August 20, 2007 01:16 PM +
Unworthy in a short, pleated skirt and a field trip t-shirt
Crisis, will you show me your dinosaur bone? xoxo
+ August 20, 2007 01:16 PM +
Flargy in 50,000 B.C.

This instantly became one of my favorite finds ever. I can picture this kid sitting his/her parents down and very seriously imparting this very important information to them.

And the line item that says "They're big lizards" clearly shows that he/she is a huge Dead Milkmen fan, which makes the whole thing 500% cooler.

Wendy, nice attempt at spoiling the fun. Next time, why don't you try enjoying an awesome expression of some innocent kid's apparent love of dinosaurs (even if some tight-assED scientists say they're not really dinosaurs).
+ August 20, 2007 01:17 PM +
Mickey B
The best, funnest one I know is about T-Rex, but I don't think it was based on any song, so it's really hard to share. :(
I bet the teacher who did this activity with her class knows it though!
+ August 20, 2007 01:18 PM +
Night in gale
Wendy, with all due respect to your updated info on dinosaurs, It Takes One TO Know One!
+ August 20, 2007 01:21 PM +
a in b
Mickey B - I am now singing "The Wheels on the Bus..." over and over...again. <ooh, sorry - just couldn't resist!> I'm not sure if I'm happy about that. Since I'm up to my eyeballs in Letters Patent today, I guess it's an improvement.

My boss has a collection of plastic dinosaurs in his office. I'm going to go regale him with dinosaur trivia.

Now all I need is a flying dinosaur and my day will be complete.
+ August 20, 2007 01:41 PM +
Jay in the Tough, Smart Steel City
Wendy- Yeah, they're not real dinosaurs. So? A brontosaurus isn't even a real kind of dinosaur. That doesn't change the fact that when I look at the shape of the dinosaur up there, all my brain thinks is "That looks like a brontosaurus!" I guess what I'm saying is, it's a fight you'll never win. Pick your freakin' battles, ma'am, and I say that with the greatest of respect, because I am also a lover of grammar and correctness and whatever, but not when it gets in the way of enjoyment.

One time my friend's mom tried to tell me that God put dinosaur bones in the ground to test our faith. I just looked at her like she was crazy and went back to reading my book about dinosaurs. Ah, I have so many fun stories from growing up in Texas!
+ August 20, 2007 01:52 PM +
Jay in the Tough, Smart Steel City
and to Flargy-- this kid is in for a treat, because I bet he doesn't even know how much of a Dead Milkmen fan he is: just think of all the great songs he or she's going to discover!
+ August 20, 2007 01:53 PM +
kate in pressed with the dino stuff
I like Mickey's dino songs better than the find. Maybe because I have elementary aged children who bring this kind of stuff home.
The next line of wheels on the bus is
"All day long."
Happy ear worms everybody!
+ August 20, 2007 01:55 PM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
C'mon! Everyone knows dinosaurs were nothing but a bunch of flying fish.

Flargy, I'm gonna have to call the Dead Milkmen and tell them to stop smoking banana peels and get back together just to make you happy.
+ August 20, 2007 02:00 PM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
Jay: By "Steel City," do you mean Pittsburgh? I'm a big fan of that city, having played there countless times with my former bands, making some awesome friends in the process.

Turbo: I was fortunate enough to see the second night of the reunion/benefit/memorial show for Dave Blood, and they were awesome. Talk about a bittersweet experience.
+ August 20, 2007 02:07 PM +
Keebler in a tree eating cookies
Um, is "wrowngest" a word? Is that correct grammar?

Other than that Wendy, I think your post was informative.
I know plenty of schools that still teach about dinosaurs...some get it right - some don't.

+ August 20, 2007 02:10 PM +
Spoonbridge in Twin Cities
That sure brings back some memories. I feel sorry for the teacher who would tell me that some dinosaurs could fly when I was in grade school, I would have been quick to point out their error, and correct all the other errors they might make in the future as well.
+ August 20, 2007 02:42 PM +
Flargy in terror, anticipating the impending return of all dinosaurs and dinosaur-like creatures

I don't care what you call it, dinosaur or not - if you saw a pterodactyl swooping down on you out of the clear blue sky, you'd shit your pants.
+ August 20, 2007 02:49 PM +
tiny
Wow, an entire day of fun comments on the find! The absent commentors are not missed - at least not by me.

Like Deanna said "Dino-mite!"
+ August 20, 2007 02:56 PM +
Carla Sue in Terre Haute
As the mother of two boys who have grown up waay too fast, I love this find. Reminds me of something they would have done. Boos to Wendy for her "party - poopness" (is that a word?), and kudos to Flargy for the laughs.
+ August 20, 2007 03:02 PM +
Kelsey in motion
I think on a scale of importance for misinformation taught in schools, dinosaurs ranks toward the bottom. :)
Saying that, this kid not only made me laugh, but had pretty good handwriting for his/her age, because I can't see a project like this in high school -- could you?
agreed with the "dino-mite".
+ August 20, 2007 03:06 PM +
Kate in MPLS
It is SO NICE in here today!

I adore this find. I can just imagine the teacher at the front of the class, with her huge pad of paper on an easel, writing down all of the things her second graders are shouting out after watching a PBS special on dinosaurs. (That was the longest sentence I've ever written.)
+ August 20, 2007 03:14 PM +
Frayed One in Earth
Not only are some of the "corrections" to this child's expression of their love of dinosaurs right only if you selectively choose what year's "science" you're going to go by - but the word "wrongest" should invalidate any corrections therein. Although at some point some ancient creatures who flew and looked like giant fish were considered by the scientific community to be dinosaurs - the word "wrongest" has never been correct.
+ August 20, 2007 03:15 PM +
Unworthy in a short, pleated skirt
Wendy, my offspring are not delusional. That's their mother's job.

Tiny, you're tiny.
+ August 20, 2007 03:21 PM +
tiny
why thank you!
+ August 20, 2007 03:40 PM +
Flargy in dinosaur class
Kate, I think you're right about how this came about. Now that you mention it, it does read like bits of input from a whole bunch of funny little kids. That would also explain the decent handwriting and almost-perfect spelling (the "n" is omitted from "paleontologist.")
+ August 20, 2007 03:45 PM +
Kate in MPLS
Flargy, let's find a copy of this educational video. I don't want any second graders showing me up when it comes to dinosaur trivia.
+ August 20, 2007 03:49 PM +
SALT in THE SEA
IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE PAPER'S BEEN GRADED, WENDY.. YOU JUDGMENTAL AND PRESUMPTUOUS BITCH
+ August 20, 2007 03:54 PM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
Don't get this dinosaur confused with the one that released "My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows".
+ August 20, 2007 04:07 PM +
biochick in the lab
Wendy--while you *may* be correct in stating that the formal defintion of a dinosaur refers to mainly terrestrial animals that share a common ancestor with triceratops and modern birds, the INFORMAL definition includes a number of other prehistoric reptiles including aquatic and aerial ones. There are multiple ways of using the word "dinosaur" and the informal usage is the most widely understood. (check out wikipedia's entry on dinosaurs. or really, any other reference source)
+ August 20, 2007 04:14 PM +
Night in gale
Wendy shouted "NO DINOSAURS SWAM."

Not even on a hot summer day?
+ August 20, 2007 04:16 PM +
blue in the bayou
Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur....open the door get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.....Am I the ONLY one who thought of that song?
+ August 20, 2007 04:20 PM +
camp counselor in shock that dinosaur lyrics are, in fact, useful.
Me and my dinosaur, i've never had sucha friend before.
as big as a house, twenty times and a half.. and fifty times taller than any giraffe.
LEGS, long as sequoyah trees. TEEF, big as piano keys. No two people are buddies more than me and my dinosaur.

We'll hopscotch to Africa quick as a breeze,
while leap frogging over the coconut trees,
and when we get thirsty mile after mile
in one great big gulp we'll just drink up the nile.

Chorus.

there's more. or there was. i love you maryjane. had to save room for songs about prunes, pirates, pandas and penguins.
+ August 20, 2007 04:30 PM +
Writer, Rejected in www.literaryrejectionsondisaply.blogspot.com
I agree that a teacher must have written this down for a kid or a bunch of kids.

There's a fabulous line in there that says. "Mary Anne Mantell found a dinasaur tooth." I wonder if she'll submit it to this website when she grows up?

p.s. I doubt the real SALT would misspell the word "judgmental"
+ August 20, 2007 04:40 PM +
kate in doubt
that SALT would type that someone is a bitch... now thinking it is another story :)
+ August 20, 2007 04:46 PM +
Pixi in fear of the large spur throated female grasshopper that's jumping in a jar that someone placed on the kitchen table,
I wish I could hand in facts like these again and hope for a smiley-face sticker grade in return. But if I tried this today, it would be thrown back at me by my advisor, "What are your SOURCES? This isn't cited correctly!"...oh well.

I congraduated myself after reading this find, I learned something about dinosaurs, but I also realized how much I don't know about them...I need a follow-up poster, on a bigger dino shaped cutout. Although, there were many interesting nifty dino facts in the comments...
+ August 20, 2007 04:59 PM +
Wendy's in the doghouse today !!
All this dinosaur talk reminds me of the Life and Science Museum field trips in Durham when I was a kid . They have a trail in the woods with life - size dinosaur statues , it was so cool .
Also , that show Land of the Lost . I really thought the big brother was hot .
+ August 20, 2007 05:06 PM +
Dbl d in a too tight bra
I wonder what grade this kid was in? They were so proud of thier homemork, couldn't wait to turn it in, for the A they knew it would receive. Then a horrible wind came and blew it away just as the bus arrived. Disappointed, the child got an incomplete, the teacher took no excuses. Guess it could have be one of a million lost on it's way to school this year. I always seemed to forget to bring mine at home. To busy with the school uniform problem is my blouse bottoned to low or is the skirt to high?
+ August 20, 2007 05:14 PM +
toast in the toaster
wheres the real SALT?

what happened to Mona?

the found conversation has been boring today
+ August 20, 2007 05:23 PM +
Rob in Los Angeles
Well Kate, it *was* nice in here. BTW SALT, in this comments board I believe it's spelled "judgenmental".
+ August 20, 2007 05:29 PM +
Kevin Shmevin in the the copy room
I love this find, but am afraid of dinosaurs.
Kids always seem to go through a dinsaur love phase - what is that all about anyway?
+ August 20, 2007 05:39 PM +
SALT in THE SEA
THAT'S JUST INSANE, ROB
+ August 20, 2007 05:42 PM +
I am in polite disagreement
Toast, I have found the found conversation to be quite charming today.

But I do agree with Rob - in our little found world, it's "judgenmental" - you can search back to about March or just trust us on this.
+ August 20, 2007 05:47 PM +
Lizardbits in a blender
Thank you for making my day... I do sometimes love what goes on this here comment board. Haven't had this much fun since... well... Friday.
+ August 20, 2007 07:06 PM +
sing in g REM now
My contribution to to the dinosaur lyrics...
REM - The Wake-Up Bomb

Get drunk and sing along to Queen
Practice my T-Rex moves and make the scene
Carry my dead, bored, been there, done that, anything

*That's* what's been going through my head since I saw this FOUND and read the comments.
+ August 20, 2007 07:10 PM +
Vickie in The land of OZ !
Love this find. Isn't it great for everyone, except for Wendy who was there with the dinosaur to make sure they didn't swim? It's great to see kids still have big imaginations.
+ August 20, 2007 07:33 PM +
terrie-is-so-very in totally-unique-ville
DIN-O-MITE!


Sorry, couldn't help it.
+ August 20, 2007 07:35 PM +
hands in your stash
I have to agree that this was never turned in or maybe the grade was on the back. Been awhile since I've been on this sight. See some new names mostly, more resposes all together. Glad this sight took off, always thought it was a great concept. Got a couple of the mags too. Anyone been to a convention? As to weather I'm a SALT fan? I'm someone who likes SALT's wit, who said the say him last night?
+ August 20, 2007 07:49 PM +
SALT in THE SEA
WOODWARD DREAM CRUISE GOES THROUGH MICHIGAN AND I HAD TO WORK DOWNTOWN DALLAS THIS MORNING
WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE?
+ August 20, 2007 07:55 PM +
SALT in THE SEA
I GOT A PLACE FOR YOUR HANDS AND A LIST I WANT YOU TO READ
+ August 20, 2007 07:59 PM +
Hands in your stash
Opps, that was who said they saw him last night
+ August 20, 2007 08:01 PM +
SALT in THE SEA
WE'RE NOT ON THE SAME PAGE
+ August 20, 2007 08:01 PM +
Hands in in your stash
Now how is the real SALT? I'd have to say the top one.
+ August 20, 2007 08:02 PM +
Hands in your stash
So what's this list anyway?
+ August 20, 2007 08:05 PM +
Clover in the lawn
Am I the only one who was always suspicious that the whole way the dinosaurs looked was really made up by some imaginative scientists? I suppose that some of the bones were found in the ground all arranged and in position like they were when the dino was still alive. But how did the scientists know what their skin was like? Why not fur instead of scales? Honestly, I'm not trying to spoil everyone's fun (I don't think Wendy was either) but I'm curious if I'm the only one who has wondered these things.
+ August 20, 2007 08:08 PM +
Bare feet in sand
Sorry ladies, I'm the only one that fits that list (and better) He never asked me for mine, though.
+ August 20, 2007 08:09 PM +
Freon in spasms of laughter
/*Flargy in terror, anticipating the impending return of all dinosaurs and dinosaur-like creatures said:

I don't care what you call it, dinosaur or not - if you saw a pterodactyl swooping down on you out of the clear blue sky, you'd shit your pants.
(August 20, 2007 02:49 PM)
*/
Thank you, Flargy, for a great laugh!!
+ August 20, 2007 08:37 PM +
Dead Princess in Northern Mi
I like how the dinosaur is kinda tilting her head sidways, looking shyly at you. Then has her back turned to you so you can read all the cool stuff wrote about her. "Hey did you that for the right treat i'd walk on two legs._ Either that or she's trying to lick off the part about looking like a fish.
+ August 20, 2007 08:48 PM +
Dead Headed Princess in northern Mi watching the big lake unthaw.
AND for the record, to clear it up for a few girls, this is about the found not SALT.
AND I"M THE ONLY PERFECT WOMEN FOR HIM
+ August 20, 2007 08:52 PM +
Midlife Crisis in California

When I was your age, there were only five dinosaurs, and we weren't required to make the dainty distinction between those that lunged out of the water while you were playing on the beach and those that swooped down to pick you off the playground like a piece of shiny tinfoil. No sirree. And that was before the Internet.

While dinosaurs consumed us, we had another incredible fossil resource practically in our back yards: The La Brea Tar Pits. Visions of mammoths, giant ground sloths, saber-toothed tigers, and dire wolves filled our dreams and seemed all the more real because they had been trapped in lagoons of molten asphault next to the L. A. County Art Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. How convenient was that?

The significance of the 65-million-year gap between T. Rex and the Mastodon was largely lost on us, but not the irony that the latter had become fatally bogged down in the ancient remains of the former.

Translated, "The La Brea Tar Pits" means, "the the tar tar pits." Hmmmm. "La Brea" is Spanish. Maybe no one will notice.

I thought Wendy's comments were hilarious. They reminded me of the "I am better than your kids" art critique that circulated in 2002:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?

I'm a little gun-shy and tend to disappear when things get ugly. But I still read all the comments and feel very connected.

Pajamas, sigh.



+ August 20, 2007 08:54 PM +
Unworthy in my jammies
Crisis, do you need directions to my space?
+ August 20, 2007 09:16 PM +
Unworthy in crisis
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1137
Find the bogus email comment
+ August 20, 2007 09:33 PM +
Teresa in The West
Ok I pretty much got tired of reading the comments...
all i wanted to say was that dinosaurs aren't lizards, they're reptiles. also they hang out in my bedroom on Thursday nights. and Wendy's wrong, on Thursdays they are all flying high.

they are also known as Jesus horses, although it was actually Paul who rode them.

fin.
+ August 20, 2007 09:57 PM +
Righ to the po in t.
Hands , you can't spell .
+ August 20, 2007 10:12 PM +
Willy Wonka in the syrup room late this evening testing the rum punch flavor
I like dinosaurs.
I think when they roamed the earth it must have more lush and beautiful, but probably just as noisey.
I agree w/Flargy earlier too - I think if I saw ANY dinosaur coming at me, why I would indeed soil my trousers & probably cry.
Then, I'd be eaten or stepped on, and well I'd stop crying. ha ha
+ August 20, 2007 10:29 PM +
She who use to want to be called Kelly in stead of the goofy name she really got
Kevin - You have a point - most kids do go thru a 'dino-love' phase. I honestly don't recall ever going thru that or being fascinated with them....just in overwhelming disbelief that they looked like that. (How do they really know w/out pictures? - I'd ask myself.) But, when I got older, I got how they came to that conclusion.
I think my dino-love phase really happened when Jurasic Park came out.

This find makes me think of that scene in the first one - where the kid and his Dad see a Brontosaurus face to face while they are up in the tree. "Giant cows" is what a prof of mine called them.

I loved that scene - the whole movie was pretty good imo.

They made the bronto seem just like this one - smiley and happy...non threatening.

Gotta love the movies.
+ August 20, 2007 10:34 PM +
abby in maryland
i wanted to post to make it an even 100
+ August 20, 2007 10:38 PM +
hotmom in your dreams
Who is the real SALT? I am very comfused about the identity of various people here. I am not going to assume that the SALT that called Wendy a bitch is SALT. I have had inposters posing as me too.
+ August 20, 2007 10:50 PM +
Kelsey in motion
too bad. you were 101. valiant efforts all around from everyone today. really. great work.
+ August 20, 2007 10:51 PM +
Christina in Illinois
Why don't the found webmasters allow us to create permanent names so imposters won't be a problem? They know the real IP addresses of the first name creators and could allow only them to claim their name.
+ August 20, 2007 11:25 PM +
Jello in Mold
This kind of reminds me of an art piece a friend of mine once did. She painted a reproduction of a Maxfield Parrish painting (don't ask me which one), and took a picture of it. She sent it out to a bunch of people asking for how the painting made us feel. She then copied and cut out the comments and decoupaged them onto the painting. When it was all done, it was very beautiful and very cool. Also very interesting to see what other people thought and have their thoughts placed in art.
+ August 20, 2007 11:47 PM +
Night in gale
Did anyone else notice that James@Found chimed in with his own comment today? That's so cool! James do you post regularly under an alias? Thanks for being here. I love Found! 8-)
+ August 21, 2007 01:19 AM +
Jonathan in the Albert Hall
Flargy’s comment about pterodactyls reminded me of the Rite of Spring (Stravinsky) sequence in Fantasia. Can’t hear the beginning of Part 2 of the Rite without seeing those scary swooping black wings! Happened to me at the Prom the other night.
(Was going to refrain from commenting on this one but seeing as the gang’s all here I didn’t wanna be left out after all. Hi guys.)
+ August 21, 2007 05:18 AM +
chrome toaster in hysterics!
Midlife Crisis: Dire Wolves! Yay! Nice.

Souza, no we don't know each other, but someone on this comment board got me into the habit of googling the finder if a full name is provided. (that still sounds kinky.)

From the "boom boom boom" at the end of Mickey B's dino song verse, (and the speeding up for each subsequent verse) I thought for sure it was sung to the tune of "The Ants Go Marching"

Pixi, LOL!
+ August 21, 2007 08:25 AM +
Mickey B in the dumbest job ever
Thank you, Rob! :) and w/b Midlife!!

I agree that Kate was very right about how this originated. It's a pretty common activity in preschool and early elementary education for a teacher, during 'circle time' or whatever, to collect comments from each kid and transcribe them- it's supposed to make the kids feel validated, and help them make the connection between spoken words and written text, and also it's a way for the teacher to evaluate what the kids learned during the unit (and for her to show her boss what she taught).
I had the triceratops song in my head all day yesterday, but now I'm singing 'The Ants Go Marching". Greeeeeaaaaaaat, thanks alot toaster lol.
+ August 21, 2007 09:08 AM +
wendy in austin
Wow, I hadn't really meant to foment such angst among the FOUND-ers here. I didn't realize that you all consider actual scientific fact to be so unimportant. I guess you're all right - what's the difference if we teach kids that Jesus (or Paul for that matter) rode dinosaurs? Dinosaurs, horses, it's just random scientific distinctions between animals and it's all in fun so who cares, right? Why not just start teaching evolution in all schools as fact since you have such little respect for science? No parties will be pooped then for sure and we can all interpret the universe in whatever way we feel like that day. Whee!!!
+ August 21, 2007 10:12 AM +
Carla Sue still in Terre Haute
Ahhh Wendy... should we gently point out that there is a big difference between a "Found" website and school room where young minds are shaped?? I don't think either of my boys are suffering in their adulthoods by their assumptions that some dinos did, indeed, fly. (Yep, I called and asked them if they knew they didn't). Enjoy the find, it's terrific. And no spam protection this afternoon?? Whoo hooo...
+ August 21, 2007 11:10 AM +
Rex Winsome in the paleolythic, kicking some ass
Let me tell you something, dinosaurs fly all the time.

For example: when i punch them. Or when i pick em up by their tail, spin em around and toss em at each other. Or when i do a jumping spin-kick at em. or when i just look at em mean.

cuz i'm tuff. that's why.
+ August 21, 2007 02:23 PM +
Freon in awe of the Mighty Rex Winsome
You're just too dang cute! ;o)
+ August 21, 2007 02:37 PM +
Flargy
Rex, I always suspected you were Chuck Norris operating under a pseudonym. Now there's no question.
+ August 21, 2007 04:42 PM +
Midlife Crisis in California

Wendy, I love your sense of humor! Please don't stop. You wrote,

"Why not just start teaching evolution in all schools as fact since you have such little respect for science?"

Hahahahaha! You're messin' with us again.

Personally, I believe the earth is perched on the back of a tortoise and that so-called stars are just pinholes in a sheet of black construction paper.
+ August 22, 2007 02:26 PM +
Shalyn in Kansas hiding from her homework
I LOVE THIS DINOSAUR!!
It kind of weirded me out though- my last name is the same as one of the feuding paleontologists. Odd to see it written on a dinosaur with such fun statements. too cute.
+ August 23, 2007 07:26 PM +
busy bee in in the final few moments
I miss Dinosaur Jim. He never comes around anymore.
+ October 17, 2007 02:27 PM +
Freonz freak in g hallucinations
I still love this dinosaur <3
+ April 14, 2008 12:38 PM +
im in my kitchen
I found a dinosaur like that yesterday, only it was blank!
+ May 21, 2008 07:12 AM +

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