# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/61 "2011-09-01T18:58:24Z")
Nope. In fact, the OP is severely wierded out that his Apple tree is full of wasps and wants to _kill them with fire_. But from a distance, on TV, I think awwww. I wouldn’t wanna freeze OR starve OR asphyxiate in there. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/62 "2011-09-01T19:01:42Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > A question: is the OP in fact the Vince Vaughn character from JP2? Ha! I’ve been watching the Lost World and I keep screaming at Roland Tembo to take out Vince Vaughn. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/63 "2011-09-01T21:39:41Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Ha! I’ve been watching the Lost World and I keep screaming at Roland Tembo to take out Vince Vaughn. Tangent! With some rumors of a JP4 being mulled over (again) I would vote to ditch Sam Neill and crew and make Roland the main protagonist…I thought he was an interesting character and can imagine him being lured back to the island for some reason or another a lot easier than I can imagine any of the others coming back. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/64 "2011-09-01T21:55:00Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Tangent! With some rumors of a JP4 being mulled over (again) I would vote to ditch Sam Neill and crew and make Roland the main protagonist…I thought he was an interesting character and can imagine him being lured back to the island for some reason or another a lot easier than I can imagine any of the others coming back. Sadly, Pete Postlewaite, who played Roland, [died a few years back.](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2011/01/oscar-nominee-pete-postlethwaite-dies-in-london.html) Ordinarily I’d make a wisecrack here, but I like him too much to do anything but :(. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/65 "2011-09-01T22:21:25Z")
Velociraptor locked in freezer: “Lexi, baby… I think you hurt my head _reeeeal_ bad. I’m dizzy… I think I need a doctor…” ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/66 "2011-09-01T23:08:43Z")
> [@Cuckoorex](#): > > Tangent! With some rumors of a JP4 being mulled over (again) … OMG JP4??? You just made me so very happy! There can never be enough dinosaurs in my world! 😃 ---
**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:** [September 1, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/67 "2011-09-01T23:19:53Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Sadly, Pete Postlewaite, who played Roland, [died a few years back.](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2011/01/oscar-nominee-pete-postlethwaite-dies-in-london.html) > > Ordinarily I’d make a wisecrack here, but I like him too much to do anything but :(. Only a few months ago, you mean? It was 2011. But yeah, I was sad, too. Roland would have been such a great protagonist. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/68 "2011-09-01T23:57:01Z")
> [@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… IT STINKS! 😃 ignore this. stupid allcaps auto undoing… ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/69 "2011-09-02T03:47:25Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > OMG JP4??? You just made me so very happy! There can never be enough dinosaurs in my world! 😃 [Yup.](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20082166-10391715.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/70 "2011-09-02T04:00:15Z")
Didn’t they say in the second movie that they napalmed the entire island? If so, it’s dead no matter what. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/71 "2011-09-02T05:16:11Z")
Not a problem. After all, Malcolm died, got buried, and got his grave (and the entire rest of _that_ island) napalmed in the first book, and it didn’t slow him down any. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/72 "2011-09-02T18:18:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Not a problem. After all, Malcolm died, got buried, and got his grave (and the entire rest of _that_ island) napalmed in the first book, and it didn’t slow him down any. No one cares about Malcolm. The important thing is that no harm come to Ellie Satler; she’s too pretty to die. I suppose Grant must be spared as well to spare her grief. And obviously I can’t countenance hurting little kids. But you can kill Malcolm as often as you want and I’m okay with it. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/73 "2011-09-02T19:13:53Z")
Ya know, the _biological_ flaws of Jurassic Park have their very own wiki page, not the least of which is that velociraptors were about the size of turkeys, so the freezer has a certain poetic justice, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/74 "2011-09-03T02:43:23Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Ya know, the _biological_ flaws of Jurassic Park have their very own wiki page, not the least of which is that velociraptors were about the size of turkeys, so the freezer has a certain poetic justice, IMHO. They also had feathers. So they were pretty. Or divas. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/75 "2011-09-03T08:53:09Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Only a few months ago, you mean? It was 2011. But yeah, I was sad, too. Roland would have been such a great protagonist. I’d like to imagine that they’d have opened the film with Roland blowing Van Owen’s body from there to Johannesburg. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/76 "2011-09-03T12:20:45Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > They also had feathers. So they were pretty. Or divas. Divas with _six inch knives on their feet!_..wha? Oh… Two inch knives. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2011, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259/77 "2011-09-03T14:27:21Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Only a few months ago, you mean? It was 2011. But yeah, I was sad, too. Roland would have been such a great protagonist. Obviously my memory was in error. I didn’t have the heart to read the linked article. Stoopid feelings. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-poor-velociraptor/594259.md?page=3)