# That poor Velociraptor. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259 "2011-08-27T02:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/21 "2011-08-30T15:35:29Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > They didn’t ASK to be created. Won’t somebody think of their avian/amphibian civil rights? > > (You wouldn’t have an issue if they were Fuzzy Wuzzy Care Bears. ) I think my posting history makes it clear that, if a mass grave filled with the corpses of a clan of fuzzy wuzzy cave bears is ever found, I will be a prime suspect. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/22 "2011-08-30T15:41:46Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I think my posting history makes it clear that, if a mass grave filled with the corpses of a clan of fuzzy wuzzy cave bears is ever found, I will be a prime suspect. I would think that your posting history makes clear that if a mass grave filled with the corpses of pretty much anything, up to and including Athenian Acolytes, is ever found you will be a prime suspect. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/23 "2011-08-30T15:43:21Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Tim was all right, but the little girl should have been left with the goat for the Rex to gobble out. She added nothing! He got his last laugh on her, He became a much more successful programmer - sorry, _hacker_ - in _The Social Network_ as Dustin Moskovitz. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/24 "2011-08-30T15:57:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Or she could take off the doll’s head and pour the kerosene under the door. [del]Chefs[/del] Raptors do that. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Oh, wait. Different movie. LMAO, Now I’ve got this Geena Davis - Raptor amalgam floating in my brain. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/25 "2011-08-30T16:08:42Z")
> [@Chopper9760](#): > > LMAO, Now I’ve got this Geena Davis - Raptor amalgam floating in my brain. Geena Davis/T.Rex amalgam…it’s why it was running after the jeep with Malcolm in the back… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/26 "2011-08-30T16:17:15Z")
Well. At least they didn’t shooooooooot her!!! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/27 "2011-08-30T17:16:35Z")
> [@](#): > > I officially do not give a damn how genetically engineered monsters which have been feasting on living humans die, so long as the means are not “choking on the flesh of a human being.” Even if someone had come up with a completely safe means of freeing the beastie, I’d vote for leaving it to die. Doesn’t that depend on _which_ humans? ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/28 "2011-08-30T17:34:44Z")
Last I knew the whole warm-blooded/cold-blooded dinosaurs was still up for debate, but if the raptor was cold-blooded, it would be a pretty humane death. Metabolism would just slow down and it would pass out. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/29 "2011-08-30T17:38:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Doesn’t that depend on _which_ humans? My villain hat is off. No, not really. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/30 "2011-08-30T17:40:01Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Last I knew the whole warm-blooded/cold-blooded dinosaurs was still up for debate, but if the raptor was cold-blooded, it would be a pretty humane death. Metabolism would just slow down and it would pass out. I simply cannot believe that the “velociraptors” shown in Jurassic Park are cold-blooded. They’re way too fast and agile. Likewise the hadrosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/31 "2011-08-30T17:48:40Z")
Did we see hadrosaurs in Jurassic Park? I thought we saw them from a distance, but the ones we saw running really fast were Gallimumus…es. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/32 "2011-08-30T17:53:15Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Did we see hadrosaurs in Jurassic Park? I thought we saw them from a distance, but the ones we saw running really fast were Gallimumus…es. I think there was a hadrosaur in JP II, but I could be wrong. Also, as I think on that movie, it occurs to me that there was an exception to my “no sympathy for human-eating predators” rule. The asshole hunter who took the electric prod to the compys clearly brought his fate on himself. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/33 "2011-08-30T17:58:06Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I think there was a hadrosaur in JP II, but I could be wrong. > > Also, as I think on that movie, it occurs to me that there was an exception to my “no sympathy for human-eating predators” rule. The asshole hunter who took the electric prod to the compys clearly brought his fate on himself. Oh yeah, that’s the one they bring down at the beginning. I always watch hoping that this time Nick Van Owen will get brutally eaten, actually. He’s responsible for more deaths than anyone in that whole movie! ETA: Well arguably Hammond’s responsible for it all because he created them… ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/34 "2011-08-30T18:03:46Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Oh yeah, that’s the one they bring down at the beginning. > > I always watch hoping that this time Nick Van Owen will get brutally eaten, actually. He’s responsible for more deaths than anyone in that whole movie! > > ETA: Well arguably Hammond’s responsible for it all because he created them… I **was** going to opine that Nick Van Owen’s recklessness is an intervening act. But then I remembered that Hammond sent him there to do just what he did. Nick is inarguably the real villain here. I mean, for Athena’s sake – he stole the ammunition of the anti-T-Rex gun after one of his own guys got ripped to pieces by a pair of 'em. I am of the firm opinion that the reason Nick is absent from the third act is that when Sarah and Malcolm discover that he stole the ammo, they pushed him out of the helicopter. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/35 "2011-08-30T18:28:45Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I think my posting history makes it clear that, if a mass grave filled with the corpses of a clan of fuzzy wuzzy cave bears is ever found, I will be a prime suspect. It was just a crush before, but now I am officially in love. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/36 "2011-08-30T18:32:52Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I **was** going to opine that Nick Van Owen’s recklessness is an intervening act. But then I remembered that Hammond sent him there to do just what he did. Nick is inarguably the real villain here. I mean, for Athena’s sake – he stole the ammunition of the anti-T-Rex gun after one of his own guys got ripped to pieces by a pair of 'em. > > I am of the firm opinion that the reason Nick is absent from the third act is that when Sarah and Malcolm discover that he stole the ammo, they pushed him out of the helicopter. I like to think so, too. But Sarah Harding is a fruitcake herself. This is the woman who yelled at Nick for smoking a cigarette because anything they brought into this world could impact the dinosaurs they were observing. This not five minutes after she nearly got herself killed petting a baby stegosaur. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/37 "2011-08-30T18:32:52Z")
When watching Jurassic Park the thought that ought to go through your head is “poor Velociraptors. Some rotten bastards plucked all their feathers away !” ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/38 "2011-08-30T18:35:46Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > And build a crude suspension bridge to Venezuela, where it will take on a series of odd jobs under the name Mr. Pilkington… …but perhaps you’ve said too much. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/39 "2011-08-30T18:38:41Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > When watching Jurassic Park the thought that ought to go through your head is “poor Velociraptors. Some rotten bastards plucked all their feathers away !” But he spared no expense in doing so! ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/40 "2011-08-30T18:42:58Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I like to think so, too. But Sarah Harding is a fruitcake herself. This is the woman who yelled at Nick for smoking a cigarette because anything they brought into this world could impact the dinosaurs they were observing. This not five minutes after she nearly got herself killed petting a baby stegosaur. That’s just incompetence. I can forgive it as a momentary lapse based on the awesomeness of baby stegosaurs, and also because she was played by Julianne Mooore, who is of course a goddess. What was I talking about Right, Nick. He’s just evil. And I mean that in the bad way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259.md?page=3)