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11-28-2006, 03:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: South-Africa
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"Now this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons" The Thagomizer is the arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tail of particular dinosaurs, like the famous Stegosaurus, in the clade Stegosauria. The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators. The thagomizer is also called the tail spikes. The term "thagomizer" originated as a joke from a Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson, in which a group of cavemen in a lecture hall are taught by their caveman professor that the spikes were named in honor of "the late Thag Simmons". The implication is that the Thagomizer was responsible for Thag's death. This is a comic anachronism on multiple levels; the use of slide projectors and surnames is overshadowed by the implication that cavemen co-existed with dinosaurs. Whatever was the original word for the spiked tail of Stegosaurus, if it indeed ever had one; "thagomizer" has, since the Far Side publication, been adopted as a genuine anatomical term and is used by multiple palaeontological authorities, including the Smithsonian Institution.
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11-28-2006, 04:27 PM
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Waaay too many!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Rye, NH, USA
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The day this one came out in the papers I was on the road for an audio company whose shop guys name was Raymond!
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11-28-2006, 08:16 PM
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delicate petunia
Join Date: Sep 2000
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i miss larson too. he retired in 95 and is the only known cartoonist with the possible exception of one Dave Powell with a biting louse named after him. the Strigiphilus garylarsoni
you cant not laugh at his stuff. zuma is clearly lying  |
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11-28-2006, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: On the Hook, NJ USA
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You could swap out child for dog and pretty much get the same meaning
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The Thagomizer-This is great
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