# TheFonz jumps the dinosaur **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 12, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134 "2006-07-12T03:54:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/1 "2006-07-12T03:54:56Z")
The jump in progress: [Dinosaurs and Man?!? TOGETHER??? - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379277) After a lightning storm, the SDMB cable TV channels in my house got scrambled, it was a trip to see a Food Network show mixed with the Donner party on the History channel, but never mind that, I found a mix of TV land + Discovery Channel! Lets watch… \*\*\*TheFonz \*\* gets ready to jump over the GD forum without any armor! _Richie_: A Shamosaurus? That is the _stupidest_ thing I have ever heard! _ **TheFonz** _: Stupid, yes. Also dumb. But it is something I’ve gotta do. _Richie_: **TheFonz** , you’re not jumping over garbage cans on a bike. You’re jumping over a Shamosaurus. On nothing! On a couple of little skis! One little slip and chomp! Chomp! Chomp! _ **TheFonz** _: Thanks a lot for your support. Look, I saw _ **Land before time** _!\* these things are not carnivorous, I gotta jump. (Indeed, a Shamosaurus is a kind of Ankylosaurus: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ecran\_ankylosaurus.jpg](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ecran_ankylosaurus.jpg)) So, easy money thought **TheFonz** , I will show all the old farts how I can jump all over a critter like that with no problem. The jump was on! **TheFonz** climbed the ramp at high speed with no problem, it was clearing the critter’s pit when suddenly the last \*\*TheFonz \*\* saw was the boulder like tail of the dinosaur coming at him even faster… CLOMP! (Well, no Chomp! Chomp! But lots of Stomp! Stomp! It mercifully ended quickly… ) And that is how _TheFonz_ found too late that not everything you see on TV or [the web](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7569126&postcount=9) can be considered good evidence… \* I turned the TV off then… Cripes, that effort was so unrealistic and pathetic, Really bad graphics, I think \*\*TheFonz \*\* passed his peak and now it will be branded as one of the lamest dopers. Dang, I think I will never pay \*\*TheFonz \*\* any attention after this episode. I think they call that Jump the… shit, I don’t remember now, but it is a phrase that although is wearing its welcome it is perfect in this case! Oh well, at least this new cable system looks interesting, I only hope \*\*TheFonz \*\* gets into directing or something, because acting that way in GD will never get him anywhere. \*[I swear I typed that before Loopydude posted it on the GD thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7569239&postcount=11). ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/2 "2006-07-12T04:12:44Z")
Well, he could be a troll, but if he is, he’s entertaining. Let’s face it, this board needs a good, old-fashioned kook every once in a while. Someone with no grasp of logical or critical thinking. Someone ready to dismiss mainstream science as mindless conformity, while parrotting whatever kook they’re drawing their theory from. Someone who seems to think that the world operates how they think it should, rather than how it is observed to work. It lets us sharpen our claws, gives us a break from what can become rather tedious partisan back and forth in GD, and lets better posters demonstrate basic concepts of scientific resoning and debate to any lurkers in the audience. I hope his inevitable ban is held off as long as possible. ---
**Author:** ![nameless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/779978/32.png) [@nameless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nameless)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/3 "2006-07-12T04:14:23Z")
Open the door. Get on the floor. Everybody jump the dinosaur. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/4 "2006-07-12T04:16:55Z")
Oh, and I was about to pit him myself, but I would have titled the thread TheFonz: Sit on It. Which is a bit less cliched. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/5 "2006-07-12T04:26:05Z")
Wow. That was incredibly painful. He thinks people are taking him seriously, doesn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/6 "2006-07-12T04:32:34Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > Wow. That was incredibly painful. He thinks people are taking him seriously, doesn’t he? Dude, if you like that, check out the electric sun thread in Great Debates. I’m learning a lot about how the sun is powered by electricity, and the implications for ancient life on Mars and UFOs at the Crucifixion. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/7 "2006-07-12T04:37:42Z")
It’s a nice change from the normal GD material. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/8 "2006-07-12T04:44:50Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > TheFonz jumps the dinosaur What’s his take on building anti-asteroid defense bases on Phobos and Diemos, the moons of Mars? Does he have a stand on those photos of alien spacecraft and cities on the moon? What about Lemuria? Does **TheFonz** truly know whether the Cubans discovered conclusive evidence of it last year off their southwest coast? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/9 "2006-07-12T05:26:44Z")
I enjoy a good loonie every now and then. As long as they’re not jerks, confining their insanity to their own threads, they can be a lot of fun. I especially enjoy people like The Fonz who defend their particular brand of delusion with passionate intensity. I mean, he really BELIEVES that we’re all mindless sheep for buying into that patently false fusion-powered-sun theory! You can’t buy entertainment like this. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/10 "2006-07-12T05:49:03Z")
Strikes me as a blatant, but not particularly bright, troll. First guy to patent a working twit filter for the internet will become a jillionaire. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/11 "2006-07-12T06:31:42Z")
“…and now this thread in which you are using the images taken\* (without attributiion) from a Creationist web site and posing them as examples of “depictions of dinosaurs” even though neither you nor the site from which you have “borrowed” them have demonstrated actual provenance showing that the pictures are what you (and they) claim.” (From the linked thread, part of a post by tomndebb.) That reminds me more’n faintly of … lying. More specifically, lest anyone accuse me of accusing tomndebb of lying, it looks to me as though TheFonz has engaged in mendacity. Where’s 'luci to go his whole balderdash routine, now? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/12 "2006-07-12T07:07:12Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > First guy to patent a working twit filter for the internet will become a jillionaire. No doubt. But will it be from selling licenses to people who want to use it, or by threatening to sell such licenses if his blackmail demands aren’t paid off? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/13 "2006-07-12T08:32:34Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > You can’t buy entertainment like this. Sure you can! All you gotta do is pony up the money for his subscription! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/14 "2006-07-12T08:54:05Z")
And now he’s [upped the ante:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=379277) > [@](#): > > TheFonz loves a good debate. He also loves rustling the feathers of the tired old parrots these days who love to repeat everything the mainstream tells them. Uh huh. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/15 "2006-07-12T08:59:31Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Strikes me as a blatant, but not particularly bright, troll. First guy to patent a working twit filter for the internet will become a jillionaire. It would probably be cheaper to just grant a subscription in lieu of the gas price to travel to…oh wait. We can’t do that, can we? Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/16 "2006-07-12T09:01:17Z")
> [@](#): > > TheFonz loves a good debate. He also loves rustling the feathers of the tired old parrots these days who love to repeat everything the mainstream tells them. Have you noticed the company he keeps? Says more than anything we can. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/17 "2006-07-12T10:50:13Z")
> [@nameless](#): > > Open the door. > > Get on the floor. > > Everybody jump the dinosaur. Damn you. Damn you to all to hell. Now, not only will that song get stuck in my head for a period not less than one week, but I will also inevitably picture the cast of Happy Days dancing around to a choreographed musical number… _Boom, boom, ackalackalacka boom! Boom, boom, ackalacka boom boom!_ ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/18 "2006-07-12T12:06:18Z")
I’m just waiting for him to announce that he is actually a Kryptonian with electrical powers. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/19 "2006-07-12T12:26:48Z")
He has been very Trollish so far. He copied pictures from a Genesis site, [Genisis Park](http://www.genesispark.com/genpark/ancient/ancient.htm) to hide the origin of them and then basically lied in his GD Op. I hope his stay is a short one. I think we have evolved beyond his level of stupidity. You would think he would have at least had the intelligence to rename the pictures. I guess he does not understand about Google searches. It took me less than 3 minutes to catch his deception. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/20 "2006-07-12T12:40:10Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I’m just waiting for him to announce that he is actually a Kryptonian with electrical powers. [Like this?](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v309/anubis0/ElectricSupermanBlue.png) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134.md?page=2)