Godzilla Has a New Rival
Beware the terrible Obamadon:
Yale scientists... recently named an extinct, tiny, bug-eating reptile after the commander in chief.
The Obamadon gracilis lived millions of years ago and was among lizards wiped out by an asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs, a Yale University press release states.
In reassessing previously collected fossils, they came across an unnamed species and called it Obamadon gracilis. In Latin, odon means “tooth” and gracilis means “slender.”
It is a small polyglyphanodontian distinguished by tall, slender teeth. … (Researchers) said the creature likely measured less than one foot long and probably ate insects.
I assure you, this is not from The Onion, and is all too real.
Somebody needs to start right away on a major motion picture starring the fearsome Obamadon. This monster would live on the blood of taxpayers, spew socialist fire from his upturned nostrils, and breathe deep the fumes of dying liberty.
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Dec '10
Re: Godzilla Has a New Rival
Clearly Yale scientists are racists.
Nov '11
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The cult of personality thing just keeps getting more creepy, which is remarkable because it's already drawing a 9 on the creep-o-meter.
Feb '12
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These scientists have no idea what they're talking about. An asteroid didn't kill off the dinosaurs. Aliens did...
According to the History Channel.
Jul '11
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Beware the slender lizard!
May '10
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Great. Let's give him back to Japan (or Indonesia, as the case may be).
Dec '11
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My greatest worry about Obama is that he'll be remembered as a great President. If that happens, all hope is lost. Hopefully future people will look on the Obama fad the way we look at parachute pants.
Apr '12
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Is anyone else picturing the little walking-pack-of-piranhas type dinosaur from Jurassic Park?
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Nathan, this post is a thing of beauty.
Mar '12
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How sharper than a child's tooth to have a thankless serpent!
Sep '10
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Nigel Farage: EUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
Sep '10
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I like the extinct part.
May '11
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The Obama phenomenon will haunt us until the day we die. Our kids will come home from college having read the latest book about Obama saving the universe and we will be ripping our hair out "he was a terrible president, and an even worse person!"
"Why, then, Dad, did they rename my school after him?"
Sigh
May '11
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Garrett Petersen
My greatest worry about Obama is that he'll be remembered as a great President. If that happens, all hope is lost. Hopefully future people will look on the Obama fad the way we look at parachute pants. · 33 minutes ago
Not going to happen. He is the new Kennedy, only much, much worse.
Jun '12
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I don't think the scientists realize the appropriateness of naming an extinct dinosaur after the latest iteration of Nimrod.
Oct '10
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Kinda liked those critters, then again I was the kid that wanted the Flying Monkeys from the Wizard of Oz.
Perhaps Frankenfish may be a better term. A true man made mutation created as a weapon. Odd movie.
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More importantly, can anyone pronounce "polyglyphanodontian"?
Oct '10
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Yes, actually. Such is the way of we old grey folk that studied these things.
Jun '12
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I never studied a classical language, but I'm guessing the stress is on the 2nd to last syllable. Any takers?
Apr '12
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Yes.
Can anyone pronounce it correctly?
Not a clue, thought with me where I am seems to have one to offer.
Hey, reading kid's books is very handy-- especially Doctor Seuss, since made-up words teach you to take 'em apart, and I'm familiar with all the modifiers in it, just don't expect anything more dignified than "Zizzer Zazzer Zu."