# 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:** 4
**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 13, 2006, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/61 "2006-07-13T04:45:48Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Nitpick time: > > \*Open the door > get on the floor > everybody \*_walk \*\* the dinosaur._ Not to speak for **nameless** , but I’d guess he probably knew that and was just riffing on the thread title. > [@](#): > > And just to be cursed more by \*\*MrSquishy \*\* and **Roland Orzabal** ’s: 😉 > > Music on the floor! And the link too: > [http://walkthedino.ytmnd.com/](http://walkthedino.ytmnd.com/) Gee…thanks. 😛 ---
**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 13, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/62 "2006-07-13T06:36:28Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hey, no worries, **duffer**. If the sun ever did accidentally shut itself off, it could relight its pilot from the moon. Well, that’s all cute and cuddly in your world. But if the sun ever turns off, it won’t have the energy to relight itself. Jeez, I thought this was a site with smart people. Doesn’t anyone think things through? How does the sun generate the power to relight itself?!!? We really are doomed. DOOMED! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/63 "2006-07-13T08:06:44Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Jeez, I thought this was a site with smart people. Doesn’t anyone think things through? How does the sun generate the power to relight itself?!!? Solar panels, duh. Ever heard of a perpetual machine? Well, this isn’t one, but it’s close (if by close, you mean “still not one, but let’s pretend.”) 🆒 ---
**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, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/64 "2006-07-13T11:09:39Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Like **Squink** , the vibe I’'m getting is for an even more infamous loony whose name should not be mentioned. > > It can be mentioned only softly and with a break in his name so as to not call him via vanity searches: I get a \*\*See-thru-art \*\* vibe from this current loony. 🙂 > > I’m not saying \*\*TheFonz \*\* is him, only that he is coming from the same mold that makes crackpots of that kind. [/QUOTE] That’s precisely why I’d like to keep him. Tiny giant fake alien spaceships photographed on the moon that time we never went there. Those were the days. ---
**Author:** ![nameless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/779978/32.png) [@nameless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nameless)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/65 "2006-07-13T12:14:46Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Not to speak for **nameless** , but I’d guess he probably knew that and was just riffing on the thread title. You are correct, sir! ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/66 "2006-07-13T12:37:14Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Well, that’s all cute and cuddly in your world. But if the sun ever turns off, it won’t have the energy to relight itself. > > Jeez, I thought this was a site with smart people. Doesn’t anyone think things through? How does the sun generate the power to relight itself?!!? > > We really are doomed. DOOMED! NASA had the foresight to use one of the Mariner flights to plant jumper cables on Mercury for just such an emergency. So stop worrying. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/67 "2006-07-13T12:47:51Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hey, no worries, **duffer**. If the sun ever did accidentally shut itself off, it could relight its pilot from the moon. What? You don’t light the _pilot_! If he or she is distracted by being, you know, _on fire_, he or she wouldn’t be able to steer the sun properly and it may well crash into something! Like the moon! ---
**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 13, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/68 "2006-07-13T18:35:49Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > NASA had the foresight to use one of the Mariner flights to plant jumper cables on Mercury for just such an emergency. So stop worrying. Oh thank Og! I feel my stress level decreasing as I type. Unless, oh no! Who the hell owns Mercury? And if it was built by Yugo we’re all still pretty much fucked. :smack: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/69 "2006-07-13T19:02:28Z")
No, no, no, Mercury is owned by _Ford_. Not that that’s much of a consolation. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/70 "2006-07-13T19:18:44Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > [Ya think?](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2816170310000735275pkkzZo) [hijack] That one’s okay, but I have to say that [this](http://community.webshots.com/photo/549922534/2269697800000735275kGUNto) is about the cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time–and I have an orange kitty too! Awwwww! [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/71 "2006-07-13T20:24:43Z")
But mercury is a liquid! What are they going to clamp the cables to?! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/72 "2006-07-13T21:14:30Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > But mercury is a liquid! well, maybe by [now](http://www.queenmania.net/images/fotografie/freddie_mercury/freddie_mercury_102.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/73 "2006-07-13T22:06:11Z")
> [@wring](#): > > well, maybe by [now](http://www.queenmania.net/images/fotografie/freddie_mercury/freddie_mercury_102.jpg) Actually, if it were that Mercury, I think the question of where to attach the clamps would be answered. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/74 "2006-07-13T22:15:17Z")
:d ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/75 "2006-07-13T23:13:56Z")
I’m quite astonished to see that this fuckwit’s thread on electric stars is still alive. People. _People_. I know ya wanna fight ignorance and all, but this guys a fucking nuisance, and should have been dispatched on his first day. Y’all are actually trying to reason with him. Why? I can’t state explicitly what it is that you’re doing, but you’re doing it, and it doesn’t help. It just, uh, sustains a certain obnoxious form of behavior. Fuck the little pissant and move on, will ya? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/76 "2006-07-13T23:19:18Z")
Um, near as I can figure, we stopped trying to reason w/the fuckwit quite some time ago. Chill, have a beer. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/77 "2006-07-13T23:48:26Z")
Um. If you insist! \ ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/78 "2006-07-13T23:56:35Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Um. If you insist! \ Has it ever occurred to you, if we could harness all the eruptions from beer drinkers, bean eaters, etc., we wouldn’t have to import all that natural gas from other countries? Energy independence, a full belly, and a good buzz! What’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/79 "2006-07-14T00:18:55Z")
Are you talking about electric farts? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134/80 "2006-07-14T02:08:10Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I agree 100%. 😃 I enjoy an occasional harmless loon. Really? YMMV, but I can’t see what’s so entertaining. You get the same behavior time after time: Insults, question-ducking, and paranoid self-important rambling. And it’s all the same too: Crackpot physics, creationism, conspiracy theory. With three threads the Fonz covers the bases. I predict his fourth thread will be some medical/dietary nonsense. “Miracle Magnetized water extends life span, but The Man doesn’t want you to know!” After awhile it seems they’re all cutting and pasting each other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thefonz-jumps-the-dinosaur/364134.md?page=5)