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10 October 2006

What theory? Am I just dense? Is there something to "get" here? Because I'm not getting it. Hope me, MeChatters, you're my only help!

post by: tentacle at: 14:36 | 21 comments

I swear I hadn't seen the preceding Walk the Dinosaur post before posting this!

posted by tentacle 10 October | 14:45

What I want to know is why they bother setting the CSS attributes for the font, when there is no text!?

(Hi, tentacle. Welcome.)

posted by danostuporstar 10 October | 14:48

What Walk the Dinosaur post?

I was going to mess with you and post something about not believing that you had never heard of the tiny dinosaur theory, but you're new (hullo!) and I didn't want to miff you or scare you away. So let me join you in being mystified by it. I saw it linked at del.icio.us and no one there knew what it was either, yet they kept linking to it! Someone trying to start a meme, probably...

posted by iconomy 10 October | 14:50

Oh the one right after this one.... :P We don't subtract points for posts that have the same subject as other posts...hehe. Unless the subject is elephants! Then we penalize.

posted by iconomy 10 October | 14:50

PENAL-IZE THE ELEPHANTS!!!

After, before ... details, details.

(And don't think I didn't notice when you said dobbs' foursome was a comment on metachat but then you linked to metatalk. No wonder dersins is confused.)

posted by danostuporstar 10 October | 14:54

Thanks for going easy on me! I've actually been hanging around MeFi for a while, but am new to MeCha. I was DEFINITELY not going to reveal my Tiny Dinosaur Ignorance on MeFi or AskMe... my dainty ego is too easily bruised for that...

posted by tentacle 10 October | 14:56

"PENAL-IZE THE ELEPHANTS!!!"

Hee.

dano, you are way too observant for your own good. Or my own good?

tentacle, good idea not revealing your possible ignorance on Mefi. You should come HERE and reveal your ignorance. That's what we do. Or, that's how we roll, as the cool kids say.

posted by iconomy 10 October | 14:59

You'll find all the answers you need about the Tiny Dinosaur site at thepurification.org.

I swear.

posted by item 10 October | 15:10

I believe the theory being espoused is that dinosaurs were actually tiny, not big.

posted by jrossi4r 10 October | 15:13

item: I was just about to post a comment stating that it's probably just another ARG. But even if it isn't, then surely we can turn it into one?

posted by Daniel Charms 10 October | 15:14

Hmm. This appears to be her(?) first post on this site... Oh fishy fishy fishy fish, it went whereever I would go.

posted by Daniel Charms 10 October | 15:18

Dinosaur Comics

Welcome, tentacle!

posted by initapplette 10 October | 15:19

But I need to get some sleep now, so I'll let someone else do the detective work :p

posted by Daniel Charms 10 October | 15:22

I thought it was more: yay tiny dinosaurs! boo big dinosaurs!

posted by gaspode 10 October | 15:23

Daniel Charms, you going to sleep again!? You just woke up! It's tentacle from metafilter. Not some random self-linker person. *shakes Daniel Charms and pokes at him with a sharp stick* Wake up! You sleepin'?? Huh? You sleepin'??

posted by iconomy 10 October | 15:29

tentacle is a she. Thanks for defending my honor, iconomy.

item, could you be a bit more specific about thepurification.org? You know, like, is it saying that the Tiny Dinosaurs bones will be found in Bitter Spring, AZ? Did Mr. Magichal reveal all?

posted by tentacle 10 October | 15:32

Besides, the tentacled and the ichthyosaurs were mortal enemies.

posted by danostuporstar 10 October | 15:38

Tiny dinosaurs ARE cool, gaspode. My kid just rattled off a bunch of the "smaller" dinosaurs, but I didn't catch half of them and probably couldn't spell them anyway.

posted by jrossi4r 10 October | 15:40

dano, please don't confuse me with someone else! I'd rather link arms and sing a happy song than engage in mortal combat.

posted by tentacle 10 October | 16:00

You're not one of them ichthyosaur appeasers, are you? Or, as I like to call them, Uncle Tomtacles.

posted by danostuporstar 10 October | 21:21

iconomy: I was merely trying to construct an alternative reality where tentacle actually was a random self-linker. But my tiny world seems to have collapsed the moment I left.

I would also like to apologize for living in the wrong time zone and going to bed at the wrong time.

posted by Daniel Charms 11 October | 01:04

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