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Security
Posted on July 15, 2016 by David M Willis

406 thoughts on “Security”

  1. Ana Chronistic

    “Dimetrodon?”

    *Ethan gets slowly devoured by a swarm of Dromaeosaurus albertensis*

    1. magicallady

      he couldve also chosen lophostropheus

      1. butts

        Or Paranthropus. What’s your point?

        1. Bicycle Bill

          At least he didn’t say Brontosaurus.

          Yes, I know there is a school of thought which holds that Brontosaurus is in fact a separate genus and not a mis-identified Apatosaurus, but until there is incontrovertible evidence of this I think Brontosaurus is dead to Dina.

        2. maarvarq

          Brontosaurus will live on in my heart.

        3. Cerberus

          Brontosaurus would definitely be okay to her, especially since he provided the required question mark:
          http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/walkingwithdina/

        4. begbert2

          Even if brontosaurus is the “wrong name” for the creature, it is still most definitely *a* name for the creature, and the creature is most definitely a dinosaur. While Dina might reflexively inform him of the naming dispute, she should still accept the answer, just the same way she should accept “I’m this, the long-necked think in this here picture.”

        5. Justjosh

          I always hated that Brontosaurus was very commonly referred to and a poster child for sauropods from media popularity. This article revives the legitimacy of Brontosaurus, although to my dismay.
          http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/

        6. Daibhid C

          I have to admit, I have some sympathy with the Science of Discworld viewpoint, which is that Thunder Lizard is a much cooler name than Deceptive Lizard, and even if they had been the same creature, they should have gone with that name.

          (Don’t get them started on the eohippus mess.)

        7. Clif

          You know if the augmented reality thing had been hunting dinosaurs instead of pokimen, I would have been in.

        8. Bagge

          Give it a few months…

          …Or better yet, team up with some palaeontologists and app developers and INVENT THAT SHIT

        9. DSL

          Brontosaurus will always be a planet to me! — Oh wait, sorry, wrong label-based shiny object.

        10. Fergus Maximus

          This. This makes me happy. I always knew I wasn’t alone believing Brontosaurus is a planet.

        11. N0083rP00F

          But wasn’t the theory always that they were thin at one end, fat in the middle and thin at the other end?

        12. Roborat

          Darn, someone beat me to this joke.

    2. JA

      Not a dinosaur either.

    3. foamy

      I would’ve gone with albertosaurus. Like a T-Rex, only better ’cause it’s local to me. 😀

      1. Disloyal Subject

        I’d liken it more to allosaurus, but Dina’s right about T. rex being bland at this point.

    4. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      Even Montanaspinus would have been better.

    5. Chief_of_Staves

      Therizinosaurus all the way! An herbivore the size of a bus with claws as long as your arm, and a theropod (two legged walker like T. Rex or the raptors. Or birds) at that!

      …I used to volunteer at a natural history museum. That claw cast and the real coprolite were my two greatest joys in the Dino exhibit hall.

    6. Roborat

      At least he didn’t say Barney.

  2. AnvilPro

    Mike’s a Sassasaurus

    1. butts

      More like “Assasaurus.”

      1. magicallady

        assasaurus michaeli

        1. butts

          Amber is, of course, the dreaded Assasaurus rex.

          i like big butts and i cannot lieeeee

        2. magicallady

          ~you other brothers cant deny~

        3. Woobie

          That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist

        4. ShowMeYourWarFace

          And a round thing in your face you GET SPRUNG.

        5. AndroidDreams

          You wanna pull up top, hmmhm butt shes stuffed, deep in the jeans shes wearing, im hooked and i cant stop staring

        6. magicallady

          cause you notice that butt was stuffed

        7. Falling Star

          Deep in the jeans she’s wearin’
          I’m hooked and I can’t stop starin’

    2. blackaeon

      I hate to be Debbie Downer, but it’s “pull up tough”. Which I imagine is coming in hard. Seems what that’s like.

  3. Mr. Mendo

    People still have printers?

    1. Doctor_Who

      In college they can be necessary. There’s always some Luddite teacher who wants a big stack of assignments in hardcopy so they can do the traditional red marker thing.

      1. Regalli

        Or even just “this class doesn’t use Canvas for whatever reason (usually because the teacher can’t figure out Canvas) and paper copies guarantee they’re in and prepared before class.”

        1. A Scientist

          As a teacher, what even is Canvas? Our university has its own site with a dropbox built in, and that’s what I’ve always used. The students, on the other hand, don’t understand how to follow comments in Word or on PDFs, so all my work in writing them is for naught.

        2. Mr. Mendo

          We use Blackboard here at VCU…

        3. Geneseepaws

          Blackboard: doesn’t everybody? I mean they bought Moodle,… Amiright? So there is no Real competition?

        4. Yumi

          D2L at MSU.

        5. Betty Anne

          UWS also uses D2L, or at least they did when I was there. I don’t suspect anything’s changed, because they’re constantly cutting budget instead of adding new stuff.

        6. A Scientist

          D2L is mine, as well.

        7. Julia

          ayy vcu represent

        8. Mr. Mendo

          Havoc!

      2. user 18

        Or you just learn better by using hard copies. Whenever possible, I print out slides for class ahead of time and annotate the slides in class.

      3. Needfuldoer

        Don’t forget those who print then immediately scan the printouts so they can make a .PDF to submit online, instead of just using a virtual PDF printer. (I’m so happy Windows finally comes with one built in. Users still need to be shown what it does but at least they don’t have to install anything.)

        1. N0083rP00F

          Oh god the print then scan thing is still done by professor and management types who can’t be [censored] to learn to do it right.
          Then again these are the same people who format their documents using paragraph and tabs exclusively. Page Breaks and tables? Too complicated.
          [rant continues for six more volumes]

    2. Cattleprod

      Are you suggesting Dina doesn’t have hard copies at all times?

      1. Reltzik

        She distributes them like a soapbox preacher distributes pages of Bible sayings.

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          So she leaves them in the laundry room and in toilet stalls?

        2. butting

          Behind doors, mostly.

          So if she isn’t there, you’ll at least know she was.

        3. Disloyal Subject

          These are college students. What’s one more sheet of paper lying in their rooms?
          I mean, they haven’t reverted to using floordrobes yet, but they can’t ALL be tidy.

    3. Jay

      She had it printed in advance on one of the library printers.

    4. Plasma Mongoose

      I do, I use it to print out the various console commands when I play Skyrim.

    5. robertskitch

      I have a small black and white laser printer that I get out of the cupboard whenever I need to print something. It comes in handy enough.

    6. Willoughby chase

      To print off papercraft patterns? I maybe an exception though.

    7. Sam

      In college? Good for printing out essays and stuff so you can do a final correction run through. And for printing it out for teachers who insist on getting a hard copy even if they also get a digital copy.

      1. KHNO

        I posted a rant about difference between paper and screen and compared advantages/disadvantages of the one and the other, then remembered that people would then maybe like a link as a proof, then that I’m a luddite myself and can’t link to hard copy books.

    8. Schol-R-LEA

      Actually, she’s got a 3D printer. The ‘paper’ is actually a very, very thin sheet of extruded plastic. Do You Believe That?™

    9. Christine

      Aren’t you still expected to bring a hard copy of your resume to interviews? (Not that I ever once needed the backup copy – they had always printed out a copy themselves, but showing that you knew what was expected and all that…)

      1. Betty Anne

        It’s never really benefited me to do so. Employers have never wanted it, and I have always gone home with my copy, even when I offered to leave it with them.

        Then again, I never got a job, either, so… :/

    10. begbert2

      Wait, there are people who don’t have printers? How do you print stuff out?

      People really trust ALL their persistent knowledge to a device that stops working when the battery dies?

  4. Rutee

    Dina, it’s not fair of you to redefine things. Though they /can/ probably stand to go home.

    1. begbert2

      Also, I don’t care if it’s a boring answer, it’s also a CORRECT answer, so you should have let him in.

      “What is one plus one?”
      “Two.”
      “That’s answer’s boring. Come up with something else.”
      “Err…”

  5. JetstreamGW

    Quick, Mike, say you’re a Pachycephalosaurus and headbut the door off its hinges.

    1. butts

      Say you’re an ankylosaur and pull out a mace.

      1. AGV

        That’s more Carla’s thing

  6. Cephalo the Pod

    Panel 4 just may be the most expressive Dina’s ever been.

    1. otusasio451

      Dinosaurs bring it out of her, as we’ve seen.

      1. Reltzik

        If I might take a flight of fancy into pun-land, it’s plane that they really put the wings on her fossilage.

        …….

        I am shame.

        1. inqntrol

          Careful not to choose a flight with an old pilot. They are usually more turbulent.

  7. ceec

    lol dina rolleyes. i’ve seen it all now.

  8. CapedLuigisYoshi

    And here I figured that pterodactyls not being dinosaurs was commonly known at this point.

    1. brionl

      If it’s not a dino-bot I don’t think Ethan would know.

      http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-a-pterosaur-is-not-a-dinosaur-87082921/?no-ist

      1. Sambo

        Thanks for the link!

    2. Sam

      I didn’t know that honestly.

    3. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      Also, Pterodactylus only refers to one species, a rather boring one at that. The group is called pterosaurs, and includes 5m tall, 10m wingspan murderstorks and frog-faced fluffballs. And all of then had a covering of fur (with the same origin as feathers (and as a result, making it most likely that dinosaurs had feathers from the get-go)), with that latter creature being notable for having fluffy wings as well.

    4. Willoughby Chase

      Dinosaurology was never my thing.

  9. crono3453

    Ankylosaurus, the best dinosaur.

    1. Chonos

      ^ winner

      1. bryy

        Second place would be Irritator.

        Yes that’s an actual dinosaur name.

        1. otusasio451

          As is Bambiraptor.

        2. Roborat

          My visual picture of this is a deer with saberteeth.

    2. otusasio451

      I dunno…when it comes to ankylosaurs, I prefer Euoplocephalus. And when it comes to thyreophorans, I’ve aways been more of a Stegosaurus kinda-guy. Boring, maybe, but I love me a goood thagonizer when I see it.

      1. Mollyscribbles

        Stegosaurus lovers unite! I’ve adored them from a young age. Seriously, first day of school the teacher asked us each to name our favorite animal. I said stegosaurus. In retrospect, I think she desperately wished that either she knew what the heck that was or that I preferred cats.

        1. Reltzik

          Look at the bright side. You won’t be bringing a cat in for show and tell.

        2. Mollyscribbles

          True! Also to clarify this was a problem for the teacher because she was asking our favorite animals as part of an exercise where she wrote down the name of the animal and we’d draw it.

        3. Dean

          Your teacher couldn’t spell ‘stegosaurus’? That’s… disheartening.

        4. Mollyscribbles

          *shrug* It was Primary. She was used to dealing with kids who had yet to master reading polysyllabic words.

      2. Bicycle Bill

        It’s actually called a Thagomizer, otusasio.

        Interesting bit of trivia about it — Gary Larson coined the word when he drew the cartoon back in the 1980s, and scientists started using the word as a kind of inside joke.  Thing is, with more and more use it has actually become an accepted term — to the point that spellcheck doesn’t even bat an eye at it!

        1. otusasio451

          Typo on my part. But, yeah, I knew that about Gary Larson. I love The Far Side. He also has a mite named after him that only lives in the feathers of owls.

      3. Roborat

        Yay, a Larson reference. You just became a favourite person of mine.

        1. otusasio451

          Awww, thanks. Also, the tail of stegosaurs are actually called thagomizers by paleontologists, inspired by the Gary Larson comic. See Bicycle Bill’s comment for more details.

    3. miados

      that and triceritops were my fave. although part of that might be because of the blue power ranger and blue being my fave color

  10. Doctor_Who

    “Ooh, I know! Dragonzord!”

    Ethan is then let in, only to be tied up and undergo tortures that would make Ramsay Bolton retch.

    1. inqntrol

      Tortured by Dina while Amber watches? That would give her some ideas for her next fanfiction.

      1. TrueVCU

        Pretty sure Amber would be giving Dina tips

      2. Needfuldoer

        Her next fanfiction?

        Where do you think Dina would get her ideas from?

  11. TrueVCU

    At least he didn’t say Brontosaurus, Dina would’ve proceeded straight to removing Ethan’s face

    1. John

      I think Brontosaurus is a thing again? I dunno, they keep changing it on me.

      1. Kamino Neko

        Yeah, it looks like the general consensus is that B. excelsis is a different genus than A. ajax, now.

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Other fun things about sauropods: diplodocids were apparently capable of whipping their tails back and forth at supersonic speeds, with one simulation finding 540 meters/second as the maximum speed for the tail of an Apatosaurus. And apatosaurines had specially reinforced necks, which may have been useful in neck-bashing competitions similar to those of giraffes.

        2. gwalla

          I whip my tail back and forth, I whip my tail back and forth…

        3. Kamino Neko

          Oh, for an upvote system….

        4. Roborat

          Might also have been useful in fighting off predators.

        5. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          The neck thing probably wouldn’t have been much use in fighting, since regardless of reinforcement, sharp teeth are still a rather bad thing to expose places filled with important blood vessels to.

      2. Tacos

        It is indeed a thing again.

      3. David

        Brontosaurus is not just a thing. There are entirely exciting theories about it as well.

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      So we get a whole ‘nother round of sneering at people for getting it wrong?

      1. Reltzik

        Depends. Did the last round end?

        1. Emperor Norton II

          Hear ye, hear ye!

          Your imperial highness is decreeing that the last round of sneering has officially ended. Therefore, we can now get on with the new round of sneering!

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          But what city gets the Sneerlympics this time around?

        3. Reltzik

          Obviously, hit has to be a city/nation with an abysmal human rights record and terrible public infrastructure unsuited to supporting the Sneerlympics. So we can sneer at them.

          …. no, I’m not basing this on the real world analogue, no, not at all.

        4. tyersome

          So … Boston then?

        5. Emperor Norton II

          It will be an important decision not to be taken lightly. We shall have to consider the different locations based on their willingness to bribe me commit themselves fully to the level of sneering that the Sneerlympic games deserves. It really is about briberyMany, many different factors will come into play to ensure that only the city that bribes me the most best and sneeringest city will be chosen.

    3. carms

      brontosarus was always a thing! it only ever wasn’t a thing cos of bureaucratic nomenclature regulations applied counterintuitively! Brontosaurus is the best thing!

      1. brionl

        Yes, yes it is.

        1. Woobie

          Bronto burgers are back! Or were never gone!

        2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          I have a theory about the Brontosaurus.

        3. Roborat

          Does it involve a lot of throat clearing?

        4. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          It’s mine.

      2. DSL

        It’ll always be a planet to me.

        1. John

          Ceres will always be a planet to me.

      3. Willoughby Chase

        Barney Rubble rides again!!

  12. magicallady

    ethan shouldve gone with brachiosaurus

  13. March

    I kind of want to see a Mike vs Dina argument. I think she might be the only capable of besting him, and she wouldn’t even notice.

    1. Clif

      Yeah, that might be epic.

  14. Yotomoe

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSY_rB928c

    Tyranosaurus, Try Gigantosaurus. Same Genus, Bigger Forarms. Less Sporklike.

    1. Dara

      Less Porklike

      brb lulzing

      1. Dara

        dammit i can’t type “spork” after drinking, apparently XD

      2. John

        Tyrannosaurus, the other other white meat?

    2. Rukduk

      You win this round Gigantosaurus. You win this round.

    3. 3oranges

      Bigger forearms, less bite. Everything that ever lived had less bite. A dinosaur that would pull the heads off triceratopses is not boring just because it’s popular.

      I’d always thought Dina loved all the dinosaurs because she gives attention even to obscure ones. Maybe it’s as people say, though, and she’s just being a hipster.

      1. AGV

        Because there are even more awesome dinosar than good ol’ T. Rex, like Yi qi (quite literaly a pigeon wyvern)
        Also, now there’s Purussaurus, a big-ass alligator that might beat T. Rex on biteforce (I dunno what did that thing eat, but it was HARD)

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Nor a dinosaur though. And anyway, when it comes to crocodilians, Dakosaurus andiensis is better. Orca croc!

        2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          *andiniensis

    4. AGV

      Same genus?

    5. Bagge

      That’s awesome! Thanks for sharing.

  15. Yossarianduck

    Parasaurolophus or GTFO.

    1. magicallady

      …..that looks like jar jar binks

      1. Yossarianduck

        Parasaurolophus ruined my childhood!!!!
        JK, Parasaurolophus was my childhood.

        1. magicallady

          rip yoss’s childhood

  16. Helen Destroy

    Therizinosaurus is best dino.

    1. Chief_of_Staves

      YES! Therizinosaurus high five me!

      1. Helen Destroy

        https://www.ihighfive.com/

  17. buddy

    dina is my soulmate

  18. Cholma

    Triceratops!

    1. Undrave

      BORING too :p

      1. Leorale

        I think Dina automatically disqualifies any dinosaur who is a major character in A Land Before Time

        1. SgtWadeyWilson

          That’s easy to fix, just swap tri with proto or penta. They are similar enough in name and appearance to remember as a triceratops fan, and non-mainstream enough as to be an interesting answer.

          Bur be warned: if you go into the lesser-known relatives, Dinotopia fans may remember 25 painful things.

        2. SgtWadeyWilson

          Ah, frell! *But be warned:

        3. Disloyal Subject

          My sleep-deprived brain is reasonably sure that The Land Before Time has a few Protoceratops in it. I can’t be certain, but I watched those A LOT way back when.

        4. SgtWadeyWilson

          Your sleep-deprived brain is right according to The Land Before Time’s Wiki’s list of included species. (Once in a too large size as an imaginary friend and once in a cameo on the TV series)

          Pentaceratops, however, isn’t listed for any appearance whatsoever. So I was half right.

          I wish I wasn’t so stubborn. Then I wouldn’t do things like read parts of The Land Before Time’s Wiki.

  19. Some1

    at some point Amber/Amazi-Girl will kidnap Ethan. Leading Danny on an epic boss rush to get him back, including:

    Mike: Because he feels like being a jerk

    Dina: This will be the puzzle section

    Sales Posse: Sal has to make sure he’s ready to face Amazi-Girl

    Amber herself: the epic final battle

    1. Reltzik

      Surprise twist! THAT ISN’T AMBER’S FINAL FORM!

    2. a snow ʍousɐ

      holy shit YES

      (I’d only be able to do the Dina part, though)

      1. Some1

        After Amber has been defeated, a man steps out of the shadows and tosses her away.

        Mysterious evil guy: worthless…

        Danny: it can’t be!

        Mysterious man is revealed to be Blaine

        Blaine: You may have thought you killed me, but I have returned…as Mecha Blaine!

        The true final battle begins.

  20. Dave

    He’s a chicken. A giant chicken!

  21. Jay Eff

    *reads alt text*

    SWOOP: “Me, Swoop, sad that UK not let me in! Just like Chris Brown.”

    1. inqntrol

      I don’t think Swoop assaulted any celebrity. Do some of the Decepticons count as celebrities?

  22. John

    I’m reminded of a text adventure in which you have to beat a kid in a dinosaur-naming contest.

    I won with the obviouslyfakeosaurus.

  23. otusasio451

    Personally, I’m going for Masiakiasaurus knopfleri.

    1. magicallady

      thats a cool dinosaur

      1. otusasio451

        Hell YEAH, it’s a cool dinosaur. Awesome name AND awesome skull!

        1. magicallady

          are they related to raptors?

        2. Kamino Neko

          Not closely (T. rex is closer to the raptors), but they’re both Theropods.

  24. JessWitt

    Dina the dino-hipster.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      T-Rexes and Raptors are so mainstream, Helicoprions where it’s at.

      1. AGV

        That ting isn’t a dino to begin with XD

        1. Plasma Mongoose

          It’s a giant shark with a circular saw in its mouth, that’s easily as cool as a dinosaur.

  25. chromacandi

    kind of surprised, but i guess I thought Walky’s intrusion, physically knocking over Dina and his all around resemblance to his sister would’ve triggered Amber into doing something dramatic.

    1. whispl

      Hadnt thought about this, but I agree now that you bring it up

      1. Ana Chronistic

        too busy killing spiders

    2. Dean

      She is angrily writing a Force Awakens/Avengers crossover slashfic.

    3. Silamy

      My best guess is either that Walky looks different enough from Sal (AG has talked to him before with no problems) that she just read it as an intruder and is startled and disturbed, but not freaking out; that she’s already changed and out the window; or that she wants to check on Dina -if she hasn’t run after Walky to make sure Dorothy’s okay.

      1. chromacandi

        It was Walky and AG’s conversation where she said “There’s something about you that sets the corners of my brain on fire”, implying his resemblance to Sal.

        I figured that might play in here. It be a great set-up for an arch rivalry if Sal were to learn the person she saved beat up her brother.

      2. Spencer

        Sal can’t have a brother because that would be too humanizing for Amber’s perception of Sal as a concept to overcome.

    4. Disloyal Subject

      I still don’t think he physically knocked her over so much as the combination of Indominus bullshit and a lunge startled her into falling down and he jumped over. Knocking her down seems out of character for him, and would provoke Amber.

      1. chromacandi

        that would seem to fit the narrative best so I accept that.

  26. AgentKeen

    Deinonychus. It’s fun to say and it has a funky toe claw. I also had a (non-feathered) Smithsonian toy as a kid.

    1. magicallady

      isnt that a pokemon?

      1. AgentKeen

        It should be!

        1. Woobie

          Right there with Charsaurus.

    2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      Utahraptor is cooler. I mean, it’s a bulky bulldog version of a normal raptor, and it’s freaking huge as well.

  27. C.

    Swoop is just a down payment on the Beast Era.

  28. Rukduk

    Allosaurus. Not as cliche as T-Rex, not as ill-informed as velociraptor, and not to hard to remember the spelling for. These reasons make it one of the top easy answers for “What dinosaur are you?”

    1. Reltzik

      “Allosaurusarebelongtous! Wait, no-”

      *SLAM*

      “”Dammit I choked!”

      1. Sam

        Hahahahaha

    2. Kamino Neko

      Bah. All the best Theropods are Maniraptors. Dromaeasaurids! Troodontids! Therezinosaurs! Birds!

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        Bah, Deinocheirus, DUCK SATAN, frowns at your grievous mistake.

        1. Kamino Neko

          I actually though Ornithomimisaurs were Maniraptors proper, until checking and seeing they’re just Maniraptoriformes.

          So, I’ll move one step back on the clade list.

  29. Tacos

    Shoulda said Cryolophasaurus.

  30. Nono

    So if only real dinosaurs are allowed in there, what does that make Amber?

    1. Ana Chronistic

      already inside?

      (Dina is only *answering the door* for real dinosaurs)

  31. Cerberus

    A) Dina is the best.

    B) Slight concern surrounding the fact that Dina is feeling she owes Amber/AG to an extent where she’s serving as a barrier to Amber/AG getting much needed emotional support, especially as her mental health is not in a very good place at the moment.

    C) Still really nervous to see what the Amber alter feels about everything that happened.

    1. butts

      Dina’s not really capable of recognizing that Amber’s acting unhealthily based on visual and verbal cues alone, though, and like she said, Amber hasn’t given her an actual reason to doubt her judgment.

      1. Regalli

        Dina’s reacting understandably, yeah (see point A,) but that doesn’t change the fact that she’s still serving as a barrier to the rest of the world like this and that she feels like she has to do this for all possible guests.

        1. Reltzik

          Well, it’s her dorm as well, and given what just happened it’s reasonable for her to tighten security on that basis alone.

          ….

          On second thought, no, I am NOT describing what she’s doing as “reasonable”.

      2. Cerberus

        Totally agree on all of that.

        Like it makes 90 billion percent sense that Dina would be protecting Amber in this way. It’s just unfortunate for Amber because she desperately needs her support network right now. But it can be really hard to actually do the thing that’s emotionally best for yourself when you need to, especially when there’s louder voices arguing against it.

        But yeah, unless Amber recognizes she needs help and asks Dina to let people in, I see no reason why Dina would feel a need to do so.

        1. Bagge

          Awesome people doing their best but their best not being enough because of their limitations DOES seem to be a reoccurring theme (see for example Joyce trying to help Becky and Ethan)

          On the other hand, so is the same people reaching over their limitations and helping each other to be better (see for example everyone coming together to save Becky).

          So far NO ONE has been even close to be able to give Amber the help she need, but a lot of people are trying

        2. Spencer

          Yep. Danny, Ethan and Dina can throw themselves to the wolves for Amber, but none of it will really get anywhere unless Amber recognizes that she needs help.

          Amber is fortunate that when she does start to heal she’ll already have a support network of people she can work with.

        3. Historyman68

          The last person who tried to get into Amber’s room because they were trying to “help” her…

        4. Cerberus

          And that’s a big reason for why she needs to be the one to independently notice that things are in a bad place. Because people trying to help her from the outside are going to likely trigger those experiences, especially if the people are disagreeing with her interpretation of events.

  32. butts

    Something about Dina in this strip is putting me off, and I’m not sure what it is. Something about the facial expressions? And the looking out a half-open door? And…

    oh dear satan she’s reminding me of MARY

    1. Bagge

      Oh dear….

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      “It’s a dangerous business, going out your door.”

      1. Clif

        The hall goes ever on.

        1. Emperor Norton II

          Down from the dorm, where it began
          Now to the camp the road has gone
          And I must follow if I can
          For teachers will give lectures long
          But still I must endure it all
          For if I fail the Finals week
          Then I will be here still next fall

    3. inqntrol

      Does that make them door sister?

    4. Cerberus

      Oh Dina, when we said to learn from the faces, we didn’t mean her.

  33. otusasio451

    Surprised that he didn’t go with GRIMLOCK!

  34. (((Mkvenner)))

    I completely agree t. rexes are boring.

    1. Plasma Mongoose

      T-Rexs are also terrible at card games like Snap.

      1. magicallady

        and they dont make very good henchmen, especially for dudes named goob

      2. StClair

        and at making beds.

        1. magicallady

          can t. rexes do anything? or are they the daffy duck of dinosaurs?

        2. Leorale

          All they ever wanted was to play piano. Their tale is full of tragedy. (Also their arms are full of tragedy.)

        3. user 18

          You can fit more tragedy in the tail than the arms though.

        4. foamy

          Ukulele, surely. Haven’t you ever played Jurassic Heart?

        5. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Eat stuff and have sex (that’s what those small overpowerd arms are for!).

      3. Tacos

        and also at giving hugs.

  35. nobodybasically

    See, Ken would know what to do here. As a Power Rangers fan, he’d be familiar with all the complaints that only two of the six Dinozords are actually dinosaurs.

  36. motorfirebox

    Switching to DSP. Repeat, Dinosaur Security Protocol is in effect.

  37. Plasma Mongoose

    Does anyone know what kind of dinosaur penguins were descended from?

    1. inqntrol

      The ancestor of the penguins was Waimanu, which lived during the Early Paleocene.

      1. Plasma Mongoose

        Sounds Japanese.

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Prinnies, Dood!

    2. Reltzik

      Just say penguins, and then prepare for the debate about whether birds count as dinosaurs.

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        Modern birds are by definition dinosaurs. On the other hand, birds themselves are badly defined, so you can use anything from just modern birds to dinosaurs + pterosaurs as the definition of “birds”.

      2. John

        Looking at the hoodie Dina’s wearing, I’m pretty sure she is totally down with birds being dinosaurs.

    3. Kamino Neko

      Birds are maniraptoran theropods. Their closest relatives are Troodintids and Dromaeasaurids – Velociraptor and the like.

  38. ICSM

    I went ahead and read the pterodactyl article. I don’t get why would she slam the door and then shove the article under the door. The thing actually exists, and whereas pterodactyl is a genus, since there is only one species in that genus, it is obvious which exact species he is talking about.

    So, what was that about? What did I miss?

    1. Regalli

      Pterodactyls are flying prehistoric reptiles, but they are not actually DINOSAURS. Same reason Mosasaur and Pleisiosaurus don’t count, because while they are prehistoric reptiles they are distinctly different from dinosaurs. Neither do crocodylians.

    2. Boltizar

      Because they’re not technically dinosaurs.

    3. carms

      it’s not a dinosaur.
      I mean ‘dinosaur’ is a messy polycladistic group designation anyway, but pterasaurs are quite definitely of a different lineage. They’re as much dinosaurs as were ichthysaurs.
      ‘saur’ suffix notwithstanding.

      1. 3oranges

        Dinosaurs aren’t messy at all, they’re a single clade if you include birds. I wonder what she would have said if Ethan picked a puffin.

    4. Mollyscribbles

      Wrong Order to strictly qualify as a dinosaur, I believe.

    5. 3oranges

      Plus, you know, it’s properly “Pterodactylus”. Ethan is using an informal name for something that is only a dinosaur in the most informal sense.

    6. Kamino Neko

      Pterosaurs are Archosaurs, but not Dinosaurs. They’re closer than crocodiles, but ‘close’ isn’t ‘same’.

  39. Regalli

    I like Compsognathus and Lesothosaurus! Also Iguanodon. Wendiceratops is super cute, too.

  40. Reltzik

    “Brontosaurus.” “DENIED.”

    1. Reltzik

      And someone already made that joke…

  41. Jay Eff

    It was at that very moment that Mike grabbed hold of Ethan, preparing to use the latter as a makeshift battering ram. He thrust his new weapon toward his goal.

    “Thesaurus!” shouted Mike, his voice dripping with the usual amount of contempt for all things, living or otherwise.

    1. StClair

      also with derision, dislike, and scorn.

    2. Emperor Norton II

      You just made Mike more likeable and deep than he’s been for pretty much the entire DoA run. As such, this is now imperial headcanon.

  42. Tacos

    Can I just say that I love how the comments section is turning into a “Name Your Favorite Dinosaur” sorta thing right now.

    1. magicallady

      yeah!

  43. Welp

    The right answer was Pachycephalosaurus.

    That’s ALWAYS the answer.

    1. Reltzik

      Really, what other answer could there be to this question right here?

    2. Leorale

      That was my favourite dinosaur as a kid! I liked running around and bashing things with my head. Hmm.

      1. inqntrol

        Mine was the ankylosaurus, because it was practically a mobile fortress covered with plates, except for it’s belly. But trying flip a 6 tonnes armored creature with a tail club it’s suicide.

        1. Speedball

          Yes, the ankylosaurus is awesome-looking! That thing was a living tank with a giant mace for a tail.

        2. Tacos

          Mine was Amargasaurus. A sauropod with twin sets of spikes growing out of its neck.

        3. Silamy

          It was basically my mental image of a knight but as a dinosaur. For a brief time, I wanted to be one when I grew up.

      2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        I had a bigger is better phase for a while, with whatever huge titanosaur I had recently found out about being my favorite, then I went back and forth between Deinocheirus and Therizinosaurus.

  44. magicallady

    ive never heard of even half the dinosaurs people are listing tonight

    1. Reltzik

      Well that’s only understandable. No offense, but I bet they never even heard of you either.

      1. magicallady

        tbf theyre dead

        1. Woobie

          Our great-grandparent kilt ’em all.

        2. magicallady

          those blasted great grandparent

        3. Schol-R-LEA

          So they were Scots?

        4. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Nae TRUE dinosaur…

        5. Dean

          Noah and his family ate ’em all during the Flood and threw the bones into the water, cos that’s where fossils come from.

  45. Mollyscribbles

    Wait, she asked what dinosaur ARE you. I was thinking in terms of what dinosaur is my favorite but I don’t know if it would be my . . . dinosona?

    Hmm. Troodon, perhaps? Small nocturnal omnivore describes me decently, and the feathers would get me on Dina’s side.

    1. Leorale

      I am also curious about this. I imagine Ethan is something big and understated and stalwart.

      1. Mollyscribbles

        Iguanodon for Ethan, perhaps? It’s fairly well-known but since it didn’t appear in Jurassic Park it wouldn’t be overly obvious for Dina’s tastes.

  46. kiki78

    Brontosaurus.

  47. StClair

    “None. I’m an East African Plains Ape.”

  48. modulusshift

    Wow, no one said Dromiceiomimus? It’s easily one of the most fun ones to say, and it means “emu mimicker”. And Aussies know how fierce emus can be. That’s a scary dinosaur.

    1. a snow ʍousɐ

      Too associated with T-rex 😛

  49. WAhydrohead

    I can’t imagine Dina being to into this: http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson2878.html

  50. toy only character

    clearly he should have picked a ceratasuar you just cant beat a horned t rex whos 1 letter away from having cerate in his name

  51. Sageress

    MOOOOD WHIPLAAAAAAAAAAASH

  52. toy only character

    i dont get it what about mood whiplash explain ceratasuar pal

  53. Undrave

    Mine’s the Achillobator. I just like the non-conventional name and the origin of the name.

    Though my favorite ‘Dinozord’ is PLEZUON!

    ZUON! ON ON ON ON ON!

  54. Reltzik

    …..

    Grav Roulette, we need to talk.

    …. I’m serious. A serious talk.

    Now I know, I know, that you tried hard to give me a good fit last night. And yes, Jocelyne was (and is) awesome. Well done. Tremendous effort.

    It’s not your fault that I didn’t stay with her. And she took it pretty well when I explained things to her. Very understanding. But most importantly, it wasn’t your fault.

    And my saying goodbye to her, that doesn’t reflect on you. That was in no way a judgement upon you, or a rejection of your service to date. You have performed admirably, until tonight. Which is what makes this temper tantrum of yours so…. disappointing.

    That’s it. I’m not angry. I’m not hurt. I’m not shocked or offended.

    Just… disappointed.

    You know that I am an outspoken atheist and that Mary is… Mary. You know that I try to be a compassionate person and an ally to minorities as best I can and that Mary is… Mary. You…

    … well, you know all of that.

    Grav Roulette, we are going to start from scratch tomorrow. Tabla Rasa. No grudges, no vendettas, no cycles of revenge, no anger. Complete reset. And we shall continue on as if this whole… disappointment… never happened.

    1. magicallady

      just now noticed the roulette spat out mary for your icon tonight

      sorry that happened to ya, buddy *pat pat*

      1. Clif

        How terrible you must feel.

    2. Some1

      maybe this is a lesson, on how you should stop trying to change yourself and just be happy with who you are.

      1. Reltzik

        I am not trying to change myself. I am who I am. I am trying to change the face I am forced to present to the world so that it reflects who I am.

    3. Rutee

      Why are you still spinning the wheel. Just set a grav!

      1. Clif

        Don’t take the fun out of it. Let him discover for himself that Mike has set it so that the one gravitar he wants is the one that’s almost impossible to get.

        1. a snow ʍousɐ

          What does he want?

        2. a snow ʍousɐ

          (assuming Clif knows Reltzik’s gender)

    4. Cerberus

      Didn’t this begin in the first place because you were trying to get away from the Mary gravatar?

      1. Reltzik

        Yes. Yes it did. And the Grav Roulette knows this.

    5. Random832

      How do you do this anyway? I’ve had Joe ever since… well, since the last time he updated them. Are you changing your email address around?

      1. Random832

        For some reason it had never occurred to me that the email address attached to posts isn’t important.

        1. Random832

          Though I guess it’s important enough that changing it puts your comments in moderation. So I say again, how are you doing this “grav roulette” thing?

        2. Kamino Neko

          He’s keeping the same email address, which keeps it out of the ‘new poster’ bin, but changing the capitalization, which changes the hash created for determining the avatar.

        3. Reltzik

          Exactly. I get Mary when my email has no caps, and now also when only the tenth letter is capitalized.

        4. a snow ʍousɐ

          Ooh! I wonder what other gravs I can get

        5. a snow ʍousɐ

          interesting…

        6. a snow ʍousɐ

          This could go on forever, so I guess this is the last one

        7. Thejeff

          It is kind of an interesting experiment

        8. thejeff

          Woops, wrong capital

        9. thejeff

          Nope, nope, nope

        10. thejeff

          Much better, remember that one
          MD
          DU

        11. thejeff

          One more try and it’ll be enough for now
          MM

  55. Alaric

    Corvus brachyrhynchos!

    …You didn’t specify non-avian…

  56. toy only character

    ON ON ON ON ON ON ON

    1. Undrave

      PLEZU-OH!

  57. SgtWadeyWilson

    I was always a fan of Archaeopteryx, but I had to lgo ook the adorable thing up because I couldn’t remember if they still thought it was a dinosaur. Seems like they do, which is awesome, because he’s got all the cool traits of birds and dinos!

    1. SgtWadeyWilson

      *to go look

      Argh! That’s the bit I specifically went back to and fixed.

    2. Kamino Neko

      I don’t think there’s been any controversy about whether Archaeopteryx was a dinosaur…the question is whether it’s a BIRD. (That there’s a fuzzily defined word…I prefer to use it to mean the smallest group that includes all modern birds, but some people extend it to include all dinosaurs and pterosaurs. By my preferred definition, Archaeopteryx would not be a bird…by the latter it sure would be.)

      1. SgtWadeyWilson

        When I was a kid, the first book I read about it in said it was a hoax, the second said it was the first bird (and somehow therefore not a dinosaur) and the third said it was a legitimate transitional fossil that should count as both dinosaur and bird. It was all very confusing, and I didn’t have the patience to find out which was right at that age.

        1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          I only remember creationists claiming Archeopteryx was a hoax. On the other hand, if anyone ever claims Protoavis exists, that’s a pretty good indicator of them being a liar, since Protoavis is a ridiculous chimera that includes, amongst other things, drepanosaur (think lizard lemur) bones.

        2. SgtWadeyWilson

          Well that must’ve been the source for the first book then, honestly, at that age, dinosaur books were more about the pictures. When I wanted to read, it was usually fantasy novels at that time. Actual dinosaur research was a later phase.

  58. Kernanator

    Dina, are you being a dino-hipster? Stop being a dino-hipster. All dinosaurs are wonderful!

    The disgust at the pterodactyl SNAFU, however, is right and proper.

    1. Reltzik

      She’s not a dino-hipster. To be a dino-hipster she would have to have been into dinosaurs before they were cool, and that would have been before she was born.

    2. gwalla

      She’s just practicing security through obscurity.

  59. newllend(henryvolt)

    I choose to be a Ankylosaurus.

    1. Schol-R-LEA

      “Anklyclub! I choose you!”

  60. Showler

    Everyone is so focused on the dinosaur thing that no one has commented on Carla continuing to pick up advice from Ethan about Ruth.

    1. newllend(henryvolt)

      Think Eathen is the last person to take advice from considering his poor choices.

      1. thejeff

        Except it’s good advice this time. “Check again. Make sure she knows someone cares.”

  61. Bagge

    Ethan is being such a fake dinosaur geek.

    Dina is being such a dinosaur snob.

    Amber is desperately scrambling to put on pants

    1. Jhon

      I scrambled to put on pants today. Maintenance wanted to install a new water heater…

  62. Agemegos

    The situation is putting Dina under undue strain.

  63. Woobie

    “Dina, I’m just really worried about Amber.”

    1. Cerberus

      Ethan’s not really good under pressure.

      1. Spencer

        Plus that would require acknowledging that Amber is unwell, and Ethan can’t do that.

  64. Bagge

    Awww, come one Dina. Ask him WHY T.rex is his favorite.

    “Because I had a T.rex hat when me and Danny first came out to each other.”

    Dina: “JUST LIKE ME AND BECKY!!!!! YOU MAY PASS!”

  65. Heavensrun

    If he really wanted to win points, he could rattle off the name of his favorite bird.

  66. BenRG

    Correct answer: “Dina, I hate to burst your bubble but I’m not a dinosaur and neither are you. Traumatic news, I know but you needed to have someone tell you this. Now, could you please ask Amber to come out and talk to me and Mike?”

    1. Tan

      http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/05-saturdays-all-right-for-slighting/challenged/

    2. Reltzik

      “…….. BLOOD SHALL STAIN THESE WALLS!”

  67. Wyze

    I love that Dina’s line of questioning makes complete sense to her.

  68. Raibean

    Dinosaurs aren’t as cool as prehistoric marine megafauna.

  69. A Scientist

    Well, I’ve searched more dinosaur names tonight than I pretty much ever have. Thanks guys.

    (I’m a not-dinosaurs sort of scientist.)

    1. Bagge

      See, this comic is EDUCATIONAL!!!!

      (For the record, the best dinosaur is Styracosaurus. Source: This really cool five year old I know)

      1. Philip

        Styracosaurus: the punk rocker of the ceratopsian dinosaurs.

  70. EvolutionistX

    I, too, am disappointed by Ethan’s ignorance. 🙁

  71. nobodybasically

    So does Dina just have print-outs of that article on hand because it’s such a common misconception, or did Ethan wait for her to print one out?

    1. Bagge

      Both seem equally likely

  72. Darkoneko

    Dina is angry to have had Walky pass her without problem, and would likely have closed the door no matter the answer.

  73. John

    Oh, and for my dinosaur, I think I’ve got to go with raven.

    1. Daibhid C

      The super-advanced flying stealth dinosaur!

    2. thejeff

      I was thinking Crow, but ravens are cool too.

  74. Daibhid C

    Supersaurus? Are they still a thing or did someone notice the name sounds completely made up?

    Actually, I always liked Diplodocus, because I had a book about them when I was a kid, and also because of Dippy at the Natural History Museum.

  75. Tualha

    “Are you a good dinosaur or a bad dinosaur?” “Why, I’m not a dinosaur at all.”

  76. Joey245

    I have never seen Dina roll her eyes before.

    It is beautiful.

  77. toy only character

    who would win in a fight between an army of ceratasuar with cyber enhancements or all of the dinobots from all continuitys

    1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

      Depends on what kind of cyborg implants you give the ceratosaurs.

  78. Zaxares

    Well, it’s a good thing Ethan didn’t answer with “Brontosaurus”. I think that might have given poor Dina an aneurysm.

  79. Angel H.

    Am I the only one who noticed Dina used a contraction? Or is that just too insignificant?

    1. J. A. J.

      Yep, it seems like when Dina gets snippy, her usual style of speech takes a back seat. If this slightly OOC moment was intentional on Willis’s part, then I’m impressed by his attention to detail.

  80. Falling Star

    Say ‘Brontosaurus’ and watch her explode.

  81. Hoop

    Ethan eyeballs the Predacon symbol and says the first thing that comes to mind, yesssss.

  82. Emperor Norton II

    Hello! We, the Emperor of the Internet has returned after vacation!

    So, what has been going on since last time I checked in?

    Amber/Amazi-Girl is doing everything but the one important thing: Aknowledging that they could actually be in the wrong vis-a-vis Danny. The comment field explodes in joy about butt plugs. Cerberus explains about the advantages of glass dildos.

    Hank is taking some seriously big steps into becoming a Good Person, and even better, a Good Dad. We also see that Carol is not a lone wolf, but instead a perfect member of her congregation. Says a lot about her congregation.

    In the comment field, people still try to excuse Carol for being a shithead, because they don’t understand exactly how crappy that stuff is. Such people get schooled so hard, they run away in fear of knowledge that does not agree with their worldview. Some people also still blame Becky for ramping up the drama, when in fact it is always Carol who starts it, with Becky only responding.

    Responding perfectly, at that. 😀

    People also still comment that Hank is finally a portrayal of a decent Christian. At this point, it is impossible to know if they are serious or not. If they are, then they have the attention span of a dog*.

    Carla is once again being as Carla as she can be, which is great! We learn just the extent of how fricking supportive her parents are. True, they also had the resources, but they did what they did as a show of real parental support. Dorothy is being the letdown here, as she could have paid enough attention to Carla’s argument to see just how important it is to have someone, anyone loving her for who she is. Carla’s argument is anything but stupid, Dorothy!

    In the comment field, people are shipping Ultra Car with Monkey Master. I think. I was sort of skimming it at this point.

    And then, glory of glories, Carla realising that Ruth is not “merely” upset about having to ditch her girlfriend, she is genuinely depressed! And that brings us to today’s strip, where we see Carla walking away knowing that she now has to deal with this properly, and she’ll not like it one bit. But she’ll do it anyway, because she’s Carla.

    In the comment field, people are discussing dinosaurs. All is well.

    So yeah, I think that is it. Did I miss anything?

    *Contrary to claims, goldfish has fairly decent attention spans, and can certainly remember things for more than a few seconds. Dogs, on the other hand, are pretty horrible at it; which is why you must correct a dog (and yes, that is correcting it, not punishing it) immediately when it does a bad thing.

    1. Bagge

      Masterful recap, your majesty, and welcome back 🙂

      1. Emperor Norton II

        Thank you. I went to Norway, by the way.

        Next time maybe I should tell you in advance, then you can come to Norway too and we can meet, and I will make you my trusted lieutenant, but of course you will betray me and throw me to the sharks, but I will somehow survive by being eaten alive by a whale shark, and then I will return at the exact moment you are getting married to your sweetheart, and your wedding will be ruined as my new army of land-dwelling whale sharks will stomp on all the guests. After this, thunder will start as the climactic battle ensues, in which my imperial saber will cut your arm off, but you will in the end be victorious by gagging me with the wedding dress.

        Man, that would be awesome, would it not?

        1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

          Are there many fires in Norway?

          (25:54)

        2. Emperor Norton II

          Nahh, all the storms and snow keep the fires at bay.

    2. Reltzik

      If my dog has a short attention span then why does it take two hours to get her to stop barking at the squirrel that briefly ran across the deck and out of our lives forever?

      1. Bagge

        Because it doesn’t remember the SQUIRREL – it remembers it’s LAST BARK and keeps barking because obviously it had some reason, even it it has forgotten it.

        (Full disclosure: this comment is complete bullshit)

      2. Emperor Norton II

        Disclosure that this comment also may be full of bullshit:

        Barking is something dogs often do as a way to get attention. It started barking to get your attention vis-a-vis the squirrel, and until you stop it, it will keep seeking that attention. Yes, the squirrel was gone. Your dog still wanted attention about it. Remember, if you’d been a dog yourself, you would have been able to smell that the squirrel was there. It’s not your dog’s fault you have a vastly inferior nose.

        1. Reltzik

          Except coming over to pet her and try to calm her doesn’t work, so it’s not about attention. And every time I let her out on the deck for the next three days, she went right over to where she saw the squirrel (not everywhere the squirrel was, just where it was when she saw it) to sniff.

    3. Cerberus

      I’m tickled pink that my off-hand comment about glass dildos was deemed important enough for the recap.

      Here’s all these major events in comic, comment thread drama, and oh yeah, some girl talking about transparent fuck sticks. Clearly all of equal import.

      😀

      1. Bagge

        I can’t imagine someone who looks like your gravatar talking about sex toys being important in any way…

      2. Emperor Norton II

        What can I say, I am easily distracted by sex, especially positive and educational discussions about sex.

    4. Jhon

      You are truly the Emperor we deserve!

      1. Emperor Norton II

        But are We the Emperor you need?

  83. Urukak

    So you want to know what dinosaur I am, huh? Just reverse the letters in my name.

    1. Schol-R-LEA

      Reversed, and not upside-down? :p That would make Ethan a NaleNahte, which would make him an American filmmaker, instead of an Australian dinosaur.

  84. David

    So, Ethan. Prove yourself. Hump the illustration.

  85. Vest Man!

    BEAST WARS WALL STICKERS!!!!

  86. Sam

    realdinosaursayswhat

  87. Schol-R-LEA

    wonders what Dina’s reaction would be if I mentioned that I am more interested in the phyletic relationships of Problematica such as H. sparsa and T. gregarium… no, wait, hallucigenids are probably onychophorans… maybe odontogriphids would be a better example, they’re still unsure about them, right?… Oh, never mind.

    1. Schol-R-LEA

      Wait, Tully’s Monster is now conclusively identified as cordate, and probably a vertebrate? Meh, it’s too recent a claim, chances are it will get challenged later.

      1. Gamaran Sepudomyn

        http://yourfaveisproblematica.tumblr.com/
        Here, have some help.

        1. Schol-R-LEA

          Thank you!

  88. Willoughby Chase

    The nearest I got to Dinosaurs was The Flintstones and a Dinosaur at the Natural History Museum.

  89. AspieCrow

    Parasaurolophus or Triceratops, for me.

  90. Tenchan

    Oh come on Ethan! Next thing you’ll be telling us that you’re a Triceratops.

  91. Stairmasternem

    I wanna bet that Ethan said T-Rex due to liking Grimlock.

    Still, Ethan you have chosen poorly. Twice.

  92. Lan

    I think I’m safe in saying that my favorite dinosaur is Dinobot. Mostly because I didn’t give two shits about dinosaurs growing up outside of Beast Wars or Power Rangers. I was born in 93 so sue me.

  93. Bagge

    Of course, no list of best dinosaurs is complete without Compsognathus.

    If you eat Peter Stormare you are all right in my book.

  94. Antonio

    As it is doubtful they have a printer in room (though I went to college in Dark Ages when printers were huge), I like the idea of Dina having printouts of the pterodactyl article ready for just such an occasion.

    1. Regalli

      They take up a fair bit of space, but I graduated just over a year ago and had one in my room all four years, because a lot of professors still require printouts and such.

      1. BeckyHop

        In the amount of time between her slamming the door and Ethan’s comment, though, I doubt she would’ve had time to print one out. Besides, it’s very Dina of her to have some on hand.

    2. Bicycle Bill

      My printer — which is actually an all-in-one (printer/copier/fax, if I had it hooked up to a phone line) has a footprint of only 12 inches by 17 inches.  That’s not very much space at all.

      1. Bicycle Bill

        Oh – and it’s also a scanner, too.

  95. Makkabee

    Ankylosaurus. Ankylosauri look like death-turtles.

    Though I think Ethan should have said “parakeet. Birds are modern dinosaurs,” just to see how Dina would react to that.

    1. BeckyHop

      “…proceed.”

  96. Pod

    Plesiosaur?

    1. David M Willis

      Dina’s gonna be shoving a Wikipedia article under the door for you, too.

      1. Reltzik

        What about Barney? She DID play his theme-song.

        1. David M Willis

          he’s a t. rex and his last name is literally dinosaur

          a plesiosaur is not a dinosaur

          this is fairly simple

        2. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          Please, he’s clearly a Montanaspinus.

          And if you get the joke, it’s clear evidence you are too nerdy, but you probably knew that already.

        3. Reltzik

          There is no such thing as too nerdy.

        4. Gamaran Sepudomyn

          I am proof that there is most definitely such a thing.

        5. Bicycle Bill

          so talk nerdy to me.

  97. burntnorris

    Wow, Dina. He named a real dino. Just because it’s boring doesn’t mean he didn’t pass your security check. Jeez!

    1. ninja_jesus

      I would’ve said, “You gave me a question, I gave you an answer: Tyrannosaurus Rex.”

    2. DJ_Professor_K

      I thought so too, turns out a ptereodactyl is technically a winged reptile, not a dinosaur

      *the more you know =*

      1. Amazi-Stool

        Point is that Ethan gave Tyrannosaurus Rex rex first, but Dina is too hipster to accept that correct answer!

  98. wakeangel2001

    the same way that not every mammal that lives today is a rodent not every reptile that lived during the paleozoic was necessarily a dinosaur. Of course since the fossils from that era are so old we have to rely on morphology and can’t analyze their genetic material to find more subtle relations between the various species. Imagine if paleontologists 60 million years from now discovered fossils of domestic dogs. They’d be hard pressed to believe that a chihuahua and a great dane are the same species, they’d probably figure out they’re both canines but unless they knew about our selective breeding practices they would easily think they were as different as tigers and bobcats.

  99. AustSakuraKyzor

    Thanks to a technicality, Ethan could have said ANY bird and it would’ve counted since they’re all in the dinosaur clade

  100. Justin Yates

    I would have said Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

  101. toy only character

    help i just reaised there was a ceratasuar in the jurassic world line but its to old to be in stores anymore and i couldnt find it on ebay or amazon ö

  102. toy only character

    oops forgot the l in realised sorry all of you

  103. weedleplop

    I WANTED SWOOP

  104. Havtorn

    Pachycephalosaurus? That one is still real, right? The one that looks a little like it has a monk haircut?

  105. leafirebender

    I hope Carla and Ethan have a serious conversation sometime soon

  106. EvilWriter

    “What dinosaur are you!”

    “A sparrow.”

    “… You are now the person I like third best.”

  107. A Bizzare Fellow

    Question: I get by this point that Mike’s a dick because he’s Mike, but… are we gonna get a backstory about why? I get it, in Willis’ other comics he’s traditionally been a massive wanker, but as Willis has attested, this is a separate universe. Maybe we’ll actually get a backstory for him now, a la Amber’s DOA backstory? …Or maybe he’ll just continue being Mike. Really, I’m fine either way.

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