# Dinosaur = never forget

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 16, 2022, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155 "2022-03-16T04:49:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155/21 "2022-03-16T22:21:52Z")

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They say _elephants_ never forget.

But as like a slogan, it usually means the Holocaust or, in that mould, 9/11.

> **[America](https://xkcd.com/204/)**
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> The younger folk in the audience think this is a joke.

~Max

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155/22 "2022-03-16T22:38:17Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Nuke the whales!

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yfhsXjDKgeE/maxresdefault.jpg "Cheech and Chong Save the Whales Live at River Rock 09 10 10") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhsXjDKgeE)

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155/23 "2022-03-16T23:49:03Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Not sure what that says about the language, except that it always changes.

Never forget, never forget, the fifth of November…

Nah, doesn’t work.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155/24 "2022-03-17T05:06:10Z")

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Yeah, I guess that sounds right. Still, a weird incarnation of it.

> [@Babale](#):
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> Remember “Remember”: Never Forget

Ok, I laughed.

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155/25 "2022-03-17T05:19:11Z")

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Here’s the one I saw: [https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/e70be66c-cc00-4224-9e7b-16cee03e8b9b.jpeg](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/e70be66c-cc00-4224-9e7b-16cee03e8b9b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dinosaur-never-forget/961155/26 "2022-03-17T11:20:06Z")

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It’s just as philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist George Santayana said:

_“Those who do not remember the asteroid strike that killed off the dinosaurs are condemned to themselves be killed off by the next asteroid strike.”_

I may be paraphrasing a bit.

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