Showing posts with label paleaontology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paleaontology. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Jokes: word fossils, real fossils

A linguistics team says it can predict which English words are likely to become extinct - citing "squeeze", "guts", "stick" and "bad" as probable first casualties.

That’s right, soon these words will be extinct, and no one will be able to understand any of the dialogue in today’s porn.


LOS ANGELES - Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near Los Angeles' famous La Brea Tar Pits.

Incredible. They found fossils. Right beside a famous deposit of fossils.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

sad lonely souls, and hot sweaty dinosars

PARIS - Finnish students came out on top of a worldwide education study on science performance. Canadian students were third, U.S. students 29th.

Americans wanted to criticize the study, but they couldn't quite comprehend the structure of the experiment.


WASHINGTON - A new ecological report states that divorce can be bad for the environment, because A married household actually uses resources more efficiently than a divorced household.

So hey, lonely people: don’t just feel sad and inadequate. Feel guilty.

To the polygamists: I know you’re feeling smug right about now, but having three wives is only more efficient if you don’t have a dozen kids.


The fossilized duckbilled hadrosaur is so well preserved that scientists have been able to calculate its muscle mass and learn that it was more muscular than thought, probably giving it the ability to outrun predators such as T. rex.

Wow. You know, I never really noticed how ripped that dinosaur mummy was. That, that is HOT.