Talk:2760: Paleontology Museum - Revision history

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link to rock band heavisaurus

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	Aren't most dinosaur skeletons on display these days not the actual original rock, but plaster or plastic (or some other material) casts of the original fossil? [[User:Dogman15\|Dogman15]] ([[User talk:Dogman15\|talk]]) 09:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)		Aren't most dinosaur skeletons on display these days not the actual original rock, but plaster or plastic (or some other material) casts of the original fossil? [[User:Dogman15\|Dogman15]] ([[User talk:Dogman15\|talk]]) 09:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
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		+	I thought that the joke here is that we are not looking at the actual bones of dinosaurs but fossils, that is, petrified bones, which one might interpret as "cool" rocks.

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 I added my own interpretation where Cueball thinks that dinosaurs actually were made of rocks, therefore making them cooler than our rocks. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.42|172.70.211.42]] 18:37, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
-Terrible, wrong explanation.  He's referring to how the rocks used to be dinosaurs, obviously.  Rocks "used to be way cooler" because they used to be dinosaurs.  Duh.
+Terrible, wrong explanation.  He's referring to how the rocks used to be dinosaurs, obviously.  Rocks "used to be way cooler" because they used to be dinosaurs.  Duh. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.199|172.70.110.199]] 17:02, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 Aren't most dinosaur skeletons on display these days not the actual original rock, but plaster or plastic (or some other material) casts of the original fossil? [[User:Dogman15|Dogman15]] ([[User talk:Dogman15|talk]]) 09:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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 Turtles aren't rocks. ? [[User:Unreliable Connection|2659: Unreliable Connection]] ([[User talk:Unreliable Connection|talk]]) 03:04, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 :Maybe referring to shell of turtles? [[Special:Contributions/172.71.22.212|172.71.22.212]] 03:56, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
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 ::You mean &#254;orn [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.86|172.70.42.86]] 00:31, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 ::NB, this was [[explain xkcd:Community portal/Admin requests#user edits someone else's comment|someone else's edit]]. However funny/intelligent it was, it was bad form. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.229|172.70.162.229]] 12:10, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 My interpretation is that paleontologists picked up all of the interesting rocks, and now only boring rocks are left—and turtles. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.159|162.158.94.159]] 09:41, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

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	Terrible, wrong explanation. He's referring to how the rocks used to be dinosaurs, obviously. Rocks "used to be way cooler" because they used to be dinosaurs. Duh.		Terrible, wrong explanation. He's referring to how the rocks used to be dinosaurs, obviously. Rocks "used to be way cooler" because they used to be dinosaurs. Duh.
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		+	Aren't most dinosaur skeletons on display these days not the actual original rock, but plaster or plastic (or some other material) casts of the original fossil? [[User:Dogman15\|Dogman15]] ([[User talk:Dogman15\|talk]]) 09:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles Rocks] were cool. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.144\|108.162.216.144]] 13:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)		[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles Rocks] were cool. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.144\|108.162.216.144]] 13:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
	: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcxq3RVf1gQ#heavy heavy rocks] are cooler [[Special:Contributions/172.70.242.178\|172.70.242.178]] 05:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)		: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcxq3RVf1gQ#heavy heavy rocks] are cooler [[Special:Contributions/172.70.242.178\|172.70.242.178]] 05:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
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		+	I interpreted this as a geologist who has always thought rocks were “cool” has, while looking at a stegosaurus skeleton, considered switching to paleontology instead, because that’s way cooler. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.36\|162.158.91.36]] 20:38, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

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	I added my own interpretation where Cueball thinks that dinosaurs actually were made of rocks, therefore making them cooler than our rocks. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.42\|172.70.211.42]] 18:37, 8 April 2023 (UTC)		I added my own interpretation where Cueball thinks that dinosaurs actually were made of rocks, therefore making them cooler than our rocks. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.42\|172.70.211.42]] 18:37, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
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		+	Terrible, wrong explanation. He's referring to how the rocks used to be dinosaurs, obviously. Rocks "used to be way cooler" because they used to be dinosaurs. Duh.

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	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles Rocks] were cool. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.144\|108.162.216.144]] 13:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)		[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles Rocks] were cool. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.144\|108.162.216.144]] 13:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
−	: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcxq3RVf1gQ\|heavy rocks] are cooler [[Special:Contributions/172.70.242.178\|172.70.242.178]] 05:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)	+	: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qcxq3RVf1gQ#heavy heavy rocks] are cooler [[Special:Contributions/172.70.242.178\|172.70.242.178]] 05:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

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 I thought this was a joke where Cueball thinks rocks were cooler in &#222;e Olde Dinosaur Times, because &#222;ODT had rocks shaped like dinosaur bones. Maybe I'm completely off. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.65.47|172.69.65.47]] 04:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 :I appreciate your use of the letter thorn. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.65.209|172.69.65.209]] 09:21, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
-::You mean &#222;orn [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.86|172.70.42.86]] 00:31, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
+::You mean &#254;orn [[Special:Contributions/172.70.42.86|172.70.42.86]] 00:31, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 My interpretation is that paleontologists picked up all of the interesting rocks, and now only boring rocks are left—and turtles. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.159|162.158.94.159]] 09:41, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

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 My interpretation is that paleontologists picked up all of the interesting rocks, and now only boring rocks are left—and turtles. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.159|162.158.94.159]] 09:41, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
-[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles Rocks] were cool.
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turtles Rocks] were cool. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.144|108.162.216.144]] 13:15, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 It seems unlikely to me that Cueball is referring specifically to the plates on the stegosaur's back. [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 16:05, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
 I added my own interpretation where Cueball thinks that dinosaurs actually were made of rocks, therefore making them cooler than our rocks. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.211.42|172.70.211.42]] 18:37, 8 April 2023 (UTC)