# And you thought they were reptilians!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-they-were-reptilians/98028>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 13, 2002, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-they-were-reptilians/98028 "2002-03-13T09:30:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-they-were-reptilians/98028/1 "2002-03-13T09:30:40Z")

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[They’re bird-people](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_537085.html?menu=news.latestheadlines)!!!

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> \*\*A giant bronze statue depicting a winged Prince of Wales “saving the world” is to take pride of place in a Brazilian town square named in his honour.
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> The artist, Mauricio Bentes, moulded his subject with a full head of hair, small pinned-back ears and bulging pectorals.
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> But the face is unmistakably that of Charles as Bentes, who is well known in the region, studied pictures of the Prince on the Internet to capture his likeness.\*\*

Hoo boy! Love that loincloth.

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**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-they-were-reptilians/98028/2 "2002-03-13T16:56:15Z")

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Oh.

My.

Good.

God.

Words fail me.

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**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-they-were-reptilians/98028/3 "2002-03-13T17:06:50Z")

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Heheheheheh…

Love the wings

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**Author:** ![Slip\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Slip\_Mahoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slip_Mahoney)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-they-were-reptilians/98028/4 "2002-03-13T23:30:36Z")

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Saving the world? Geez.

The putz doesn’t even know how to butter a slice of toast.