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jfuller — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:13:07 -0800

Tutorial, How to eat a Triceratops. (Most useful if you happen to be a T. rex.)

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:15:14 -0800

Triceratops: crawfish of the Cretaceous

By: Curious Artificer

Curious Artificer — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:16:53 -0800

Step 0.5 - pluck out all the brightly-colored plumage. You don't want to get feathers in your teeth.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:19:41 -0800

Quite interesting but I do not like seeing my favorite dinosaur get eaten.

By: grobstein

grobstein — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:22:00 -0800

I love the expression on the T. Rex's face. So malicious, so gleeful, so methodical.

By: orme

orme — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:22:40 -0800

Step five: Place the emptied out head on your own like a hat and chase your buddies around.

By: phong3d

phong3d — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:23:59 -0800

Someone should get this information to Melinda Mae, stat.

By: ChuraChura

ChuraChura — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:24:02 -0800

I read this out loud to Triceratops, my beloved but terribly annoying cat, last night as she was fighting with me for my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She was not at all intimidated.

By: Atom Eyes

Atom Eyes — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:24:09 -0800

Q: How do you eat a Triceratops? A: Very carefully. No, that's not good. Try again. A: Raptorously. Nope. Still stinks. Give it another go. A: Try-one-with-sauce-rus, Rex. OK. I quit.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:29:57 -0800

I spent a couple of hours on Tuesday wandering around the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan - I had forgotten how much I adored dinosaurs as a kid. They have a fantastic ceratopsean display. Much recommended.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:34:31 -0800

My girlfriend and I went there a little over a year ago, and had roughly the same experience. As a kid, dinosaurs are fucking everywhere. I mean, where I grew up, between the ages of, say, 6 and 12, you couldn't spit without hitting a dinosaur-themed lunchbox or book cover or poster or cartoons or whatever. But as an adult (at least one without kids,) unless you are a paleontologist or run a Michael Crichton fansite, there are no more ambient dinosaurs. If you want dinosaurs, you have to actively seek them out and maybe a NatGeo special here or magazine article there but that's about it. And then you go to a museum and there's a T-Rex skeleton towering far, far above you and it's just a holy shit dinosaurs are awesome moment and it is great.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:36:13 -0800

(NB: If I am missing some sort of career that has a non-zero dinosaur ambience rating, please let me know what it is and how I can apply for it.)

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:38:21 -0800

being bill watterson seems to involve a higher than normal dinosaur saturation.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:39:31 -0800

"You're going to feel really dumb if you don't click this and then can't eat a triceratops when you need to do so because you didn't real this article." An actual window into my inner life that suggests maybe I should just avoid the Internet all together. I did a little research to determine why I, like griphus, found the eating of a triceratops so upsetting. Maybe Wikipedia would remind me of some depiction in popular media that I held dear. No luck, but I did learn that the triceratops was the state dinosaur of Wyoming. So, now, in case you're curious: List of U.S. state dinosaurs

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:40:13 -0800

P.S. I love that the Related Posts for this post is "What would Michelle Bachmann eat?"

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:40:28 -0800

This is where I share my theory about how dinosaurs must have tasted like chicken. Dinosaurs evolved from early crocodiles and birds evolved from dinosaurs. I haven't eaten crocodile, but I have eaten alligator, and alligator tastes like gamey chicken. I have also eaten chicken, and chicken tastes remarkably like chicken. It only makes sense that dinosaurs tasted like chicken, too.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:40:42 -0800

WHY DOESN'T NEW YORK HAVE A STATE DINOSAUR THIS IS OUTRAGE!

By: chavenet

chavenet — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:41:09 -0800

(NB: If I am missing some sort of career that has a non-zero dinosaur ambience rating, please let me know what it is and how I can apply for it.) Parenting. Once you have kids, the dinosaurs are once again fucking everywhere.

By: phunniemee

phunniemee — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:42:45 -0800

List of U.S. state dinosaurs That is some bullshit. How does Illinois not get a dinosaur? Even if we were covered with a sea back then, that's no excuse for us not to co-opt some other state's dinosaur! IT'S JUST THAT IMPORTANT. All we've got is the dippy tully monster.

By: ChuraChura

ChuraChura — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:45:08 -0800

I'm pleased that New Jersey's state dinosaur is the Hadrosaur. I'm sure it's because of Dino Rock and the Hadrosaur from Hackensack.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:47:26 -0800

New York's dinosaur is Morgenthau and we think he is tops.

By: Danf

Danf — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:50:16 -0800

List of U.S. state dinosaurs The only dinosaur fossil ever found in Oregon belonged to a creature that actually lived and died in California, then moved to Oregon via plate tectonics. But, given the current Oregon demographic, sorta apt.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:53:14 -0800

When I was in sixth grade (I think) we chose the state fish in Illinois. The bluegill won state-wide even though my campaign for the catfish won for our school district. (Said campaign involved making a catfish costume out of butcher paper and convincing one of the kids in my group to wear it to all the other classrooms.) When the bluegill (which came in last in our school's vote) won state wide, it was my first disappointment at how elections sometimes empower people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about. As for why Illinois doesn't have a state dinosaur, it's probably because they haven't found any dinosaur fossils here, which was a surprise to me when I went through my dinosaur-phase as an adult. (See this great AskMe question from that time period -- yes, the question is mine but the answers are the great part.)

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:54:31 -0800

TRICERATOPS STEW Ingredients: 1 Triceratops Brown gravy to cover Instructions: (1) Cut the triceratops into half-inch cubes. (2) Add brown gravy. (3) Simmer until tender. Serve over noodles or with rice.

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:55:41 -0800

noodles? rice? what kind of mishegoss is this fake paleo diet?

By: Danf

Danf — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:57:40 -0800

noodles? rice? what kind of mishegoss is this fake paleo diet? No! This is the Jurassic Diet. Carbs of OK as long as you can find them.

By: drhydro

drhydro — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:27:58 -0800

Loves to eat them 'topses... 'topses what I loves to eat. Bite they little heads off, Nibble on they tiny feet.

By: Turkey Glue

Turkey Glue — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:19:25 -0800

noodles? rice? what kind of mishegoss is this fake paleo diet? It's obviously a paleontology diet.

By: Kabanos

Kabanos — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:34:42 -0800

Q: How do you eat a Triceratops? Step 5: Feast on the delicacies beneath the frill. Indeed.

By: bpm140

bpm140 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:36:32 -0800

One bite at a time.

By: bardophile

bardophile — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:47:57 -0800

Decisions, decisions. Shall I show this to my dinosaur-mad son? Or will the idea of a T-Rex ripping off a triceratops' head traumatize the five-year-old?

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:57:41 -0800

Now, now, people: let's not lose our heads.

By: jquinby

jquinby — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:09:45 -0800

One bite at a... dammit

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:23:38 -0800

"Tender Meat of the Face " is one of the creepiest phrases I've heard in a while. But it'd make a good song title.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:52:49 -0800

But what's the best seasoning for triceratops? I'm thinking a nice jerk.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:01:28 -0800

What's a T. rex's favorite cut of meat? Tri-tip! Wakka wakka wakka!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:02:04 -0800

I just made that up.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:13:30 -0800

One leg over each shoulder?

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:17:19 -0800

I have eaten the triceratops that were in the late Cretaceous and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold, clever girl!

By: soundguy99

soundguy99 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:02:59 -0800

Well, Ohio's got no dinosaur, and our "official fossil" is some kinda lame trilobite, but at least Cleveland's got the Dunlkeosteus terrelli.