Here be dragons

DanaC · 07-06-2007, 04:11 PM

I was pottering about on the BBC News site and found this little piece.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6276948.stm

Chinese villagers have, for several decades, been digging up and grinding down dinosaur bones, thinking that they were dragon bones....

theotherguy · 07-06-2007, 04:16 PM

Those crazy Chinese. Always gettin' it wrong because of the squinty eyes.

HungLikeJesus · 07-06-2007, 05:22 PM

Dragons have squinty eyes?

DanaC · 07-06-2007, 06:09 PM

Apparently.

Uisge Beatha · 07-06-2007, 08:35 PM

Hey, come on -- you'd squint, too, if you had to see through all the smoke from a fiery breath.

lumberjim · 07-06-2007, 09:49 PM

if you ask me....a dinosaur counts as a fucking dragon.

Cicero · 07-07-2007, 10:20 AM

Hmm...yeah. Something that huge that could fly should count as a dragon. If I were around at that time I would scream dragon too. Besides, the names of dinosaurs are too long to scream out loud, and then run. It would be easier to alert your clan but just yelling dragon and peeing your pants. Real time saver.

Here- look at this. Tell me this does not look like some sort of dragon.
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britis...&startid=32582

Urbane Guerrilla · 07-09-2007, 11:39 PM

Though with a big bladder, you still have plenty of time to yell "Parasaurolophus spp.!!"

Could be worse, though... Oligocene South America and all their tonguetwister critters... more or less in the vein of "Megamispronounceittherium simpsonii."

Ibby · 07-09-2007, 11:49 PM

I convinced my grandparents' 8-year-old neighbor that there ARE dragons in China. No joke. Living, wild, dangerous dragons. She bought it hook line and sinker.

07-15-2007, 03:34 AM

I always use this as a counter argument when people say to me "but there are millions of Christians, they can't all be wrong".
Have been for years.
It is not just villagers, it is a common belief in China.

Griff · 07-15-2007, 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ibram

I convinced my grandparents' 8-year-old neighbor that there ARE dragons in China. No joke. Living, wild, dangerous dragons. She bought it hook line and sinker.

Getting 8 year old girls to believe in fantasy creatures is like shooting fish in a barrel.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-15-2007, 11:54 AM

Ask any Unicorn.

DanaC · 07-15-2007, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Ask any Unicorn.

stylish.

07-06-2007, 04:11 PM	#1
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Here be dragons I was pottering about on the BBC News site and found this little piece. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/6276948.stm Chinese villagers have, for several decades, been digging up and grinding down dinosaur bones, thinking that they were dragon bones....

07-06-2007, 04:16 PM	#2
theotherguy no not that other guy, the other one Join Date: May 2007 Location: TN Posts: 640	Those crazy Chinese. Always gettin' it wrong because of the squinty eyes. __________________ I should be working.

07-06-2007, 05:22 PM	#3
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Dragons have squinty eyes? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

07-06-2007, 09:49 PM	#6
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	if you ask me....a dinosaur counts as a fucking dragon. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

07-07-2007, 10:20 AM	#7
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	Hmm...yeah. Something that huge that could fly should count as a dragon. If I were around at that time I would scream dragon too. Besides, the names of dinosaurs are too long to scream out loud, and then run. It would be easier to alert your clan but just yelling dragon and peeing your pants. Real time saver. Here- look at this. Tell me this does not look like some sort of dragon. http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britis...&startid=32582 Last edited by Cicero; 07-07-2007 at 10:26 AM. Reason: trying to supply a source.

07-06-2007, 06:09 PM	#4
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Apparently.

07-06-2007, 08:35 PM	#5
Uisge Beatha Lecturer Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 945	Hey, come on -- you'd squint, too, if you had to see through all the smoke from a fiery breath.

07-09-2007, 11:39 PM	#8
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Though with a big bladder, you still have plenty of time to yell "Parasaurolophus spp.!!" Could be worse, though... Oligocene South America and all their tonguetwister critters... more or less in the vein of "Megamispronounceittherium simpsonii." __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

07-09-2007, 11:49 PM	#9
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	I convinced my grandparents' 8-year-old neighbor that there ARE dragons in China. No joke. Living, wild, dangerous dragons. She bought it hook line and sinker. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

07-15-2007, 03:34 AM	#10
rkzenrage Guest Posts: n/a	I always use this as a counter argument when people say to me "but there are millions of Christians, they can't all be wrong". Have been for years. It is not just villagers, it is a common belief in China.

07-15-2007, 11:54 AM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Ask any Unicorn. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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