# Spielberg pic of "dead" dino freaks out net morons **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922 "2014-07-12T10:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/41 "2014-07-13T07:28:01Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Now that I think of it, I’ve never seen any photos of Spielberg with a living dinosaur. And he did blow up that shark in Jaws, right? And let’s not even talk about Schindler’s list! ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/42 "2014-07-13T12:49:41Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Now that I think of it, I’ve never seen any photos of Spielberg with a living dinosaur. And he did blow up that shark in Jaws, right? Some sharks just need killing. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/43 "2014-07-13T13:46:34Z")
Meh, I’ve never met a Triceratop I’ve liked. Kill them all, I say! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/44 "2014-07-13T21:13:40Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > There are plenty of people who have no idea dinosaurs are extinct. I have taught several of them. > > We here on the dope are creatures of privilege. I have no idea that dinosaurs are extinct. I ate one for dinner, and I’m fairly sure it wasn’t the last of its species. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/45 "2014-07-14T00:04:27Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I have no idea that dinosaurs are extinct. I ate one for dinner, and I’m fairly sure it wasn’t the last of its species. Something that evolved from a dinosaur is not a dinosaur. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/46 "2014-07-14T00:09:10Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Something that evolved from a dinosaur is not a dinosaur. Birds are dinosaurs. > **[Birds and Dinosaurs](https://xkcd.com/1211/)** ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/47 "2014-07-14T00:11:28Z")
Or if you would prefer a more detailed justification: > **[Why are Birds Dinosaurs?](https://paleocave.sciencesortof.com/2013/06/why-are-birds-dinosaurs/)** > > Month after month, one of the most popular posts on the Paleocave blog is the How to Read a Cladogram post I did some time ago. I always intended to follow it up with more cladistic fun. So, hold o… ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/48 "2014-07-14T00:57:35Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I have no idea that dinosaurs are extinct. I ate one for dinner, and I’m fairly sure it wasn’t the last of its species. Call me when you succeed in getting that language change through to the average speaker. Meanwhile I’m going to keep using the phrase ‘dinosaurs are extinct’ in those contexts where it would take too long to say 'dinosaurs other than birds are extinct and oh by the way did you know birds are dinosaurs well yes let me explain you see there’s this thing called a clade…" etc etc. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/49 "2014-07-14T00:57:41Z")
Spielberg killed Little Foot’s mom too. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/50 "2014-07-14T00:59:07Z")
The more important point IMO is the fact that there are not just a few fringe weirdos but plenty of normal everyday people who would have no idea whether the dinosaur represented in the photo in the OP still roams the plain (or whatever) or not. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/51 "2014-07-14T03:21:06Z")
[This is a terrible lizard.](https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRagj3hGZaM-_ab6Ys5UGlzJoO4riPB8-GiPRtnlKKZCgKCBrpmiw) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/52 "2014-07-14T06:11:00Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > Call me when you succeed in getting that language change through to the average speaker. Meanwhile I’m going to keep using the phrase ‘dinosaurs are extinct’ in those contexts where it would take too long to say 'dinosaurs other than birds are extinct and oh by the way did you know birds are dinosaurs well yes let me explain you see there’s this thing called a clade…" etc etc. Not an unsensible approach, but that still doesn’t make post #44 wrong or post #45 correct. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/53 "2014-07-14T06:43:08Z")
Was that the female? Perhaps it was the male from the ark and the female is still out there … pregnant with who knows how many offspring … deep in the Colombian jungle … ready to mate with the rampaging hippos - the mind boggles! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/54 "2014-07-14T08:42:57Z")
A nice pair of ferocious [dinosaurs.](https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5043/5248004219_221dd7057a_z.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/55 "2014-07-14T08:45:16Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > [This is a terrible lizard.](https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRagj3hGZaM-_ab6Ys5UGlzJoO4riPB8-GiPRtnlKKZCgKCBrpmiw) I agree, for a lizard it’s pretty terrible. I doesn’t even have a prehensile tail or nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/56 "2014-07-14T08:45:54Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > A nice pair of ferocious [dinosaurs.](https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5043/5248004219_221dd7057a_z.jpg) I do like them perky. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/57 "2014-07-14T14:51:08Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I have no idea that dinosaurs are extinct. I ate one for dinner, and I’m fairly sure it wasn’t the last of its species. **Man** , you’ll eat anything, won’t you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/58 "2014-07-14T17:31:57Z")
“Huh, tastes like apatosaur.” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/59 "2014-07-14T22:04:10Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > **Man** , you’ll eat anything, won’t you? 🙂 Tastes like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922/60 "2014-07-14T22:24:39Z")
Try dinochicken from Asimov 's “A Statue for Father.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spielberg-pic-of-dead-dino-freaks-out-net-morons/692922.md?page=4)