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Charles Phipps
Dina, are you familiar with Utahraptors? They are actually named after Jurassic Park veliocraptors scientifically because it turns out they mostly resemble the ones in the film due to being the size of horses.
Alaric
It’s true that Utahraptor is more like the Jurassic Park Velociraptors than actual Velociraptors were, but the part about the scientific name isn’t true. The name Utahraptor ostrommaysi has nothing to do with Jurassic Park (though interestingly enough Utahraptor was officially named and described the same month Jurassic Park came out). It’s true that they had considered naming it Utahraptor spielbergi, but that was because Spielberg had been talking about funding paleontological digs in exchange for having a dinosaur named after him, and that deal fell through before the name became official (note that that would have been before the movie came out).
showler
So…instead of being named after Spielberg it was named after Oscar Mayer?
Clif
Yes, it’s seldom used full name is Utahrapter. weineri.
I mean she’s aware they’re not real dinosaurs. They state. in the movie itself. they’re amalagums of 5+ different creatures to create something resembling what people thougth dinos were.
its like dino, frog, kimodo dragon? something and something.
so i think only them refering it to dinosaurs and not “dinosaurs” would be the only bother for her
Clif
Since DNA in amberized mosquitoes is out, our best bet now is back-evolving dinosaurs from chickens. Most of the genes are still there and for the rest we have genetic engineering.
It was actually very accurate at the time. They put some of their funding into advancing the scientific community’s understanding of how dinosaurs would have worked. The T-Rex in particular was as close to reality as they could get it with what they knew.
The movie isn’t all scientifically accurate, but it DID portray realistic animal behavior. They made a sincere effort, and they contributed to actual knowledge. It’s also fun to watch. Most paleonerds at least acknowledge all of that.
The rest of the movies got decreasingly accurate as things went on, but the first one was really just good. Aside from the amber thing- DNA degrades too fast, you couldn’t get it out of amber.
thejeff
And the velociraptors themselves, where they basically took a cool sounding name and applied it to a different dinosaur.
And the abuse of chaos theory.
It wasn’t really that bad as movies go, but it wasn’t all that either.
JBento
The dilophosaurus is also sized wrong and it didn’t have the neckfrill, which are are also wrong in the book. Ironically, the velociraptor thing is the one people always point out but is actually accurate in the book – Spielberg changed it for the movie.
3oranges
I thought the Dilophosaurus was supposed to be a juvenile. In any case, the neck frill and venom were added on the assumption that at least one of the dinosaurs should have features we didn’t know about.
Which seems fair to me – not everything fossilizes. We didn’t know about things like boneless crests on hadrosaurs, dorsal spines on sauropods, or quills on ceratopsians until recently. I mean, how certain are you that Dilophosaurus didn’t have had a neck frill when they were young?
Mopey
I mean, kinda. It’s not like we used to think Velociraptors were the size of ponies or that the Dilophosaurus spit poison back in the 90s either. Spielberg, quite reasonably, let accuracy take a back seat whenever it suited the story and/or he wanted to make a cool scene.
JBento
The Dilophosaurus is on Crichton, not Spielberg – HE’s responsible for the Velociraptor size.
I know it’s not geometrically perfect, but I always figured the old “Overly Attached Girlfriend” meme was basically what her smile would look like in real life.
I have now an instant love of Dina. Been see sawing for a long while, but it has triumphed over my dislike of her It’s Walky incarnation. I have never been happier. Get ‘er Dina.
This was the first iteration of Dina I saw. When I got to see her It’s Walky version, I found myself strongly disappointed in her there. Her DoA incarnation is *way* better, indeed.
I’m… conflicted? Like yes it’s Dina and Robin and it’s pretty much a comedy scene and so I’m on the side of Dina for that, but publicly threatening someone with violence to change their political beliefs is… Hm.
I’m not a fan of threatening people with violence either, but this is less changing her political beliefs and more honoring the implicit promise she’s made to all the new progressives voters she’s courting.
My exact thoughts on this issue too. I appreciate what Dina is trying to do for Becky but… this is the equivalent of walking into your partner’s workplace and threatening their boss with a knife to give them a raise. Police would be called, and poor Dina would be stuck with a criminal record.
I don’t know that this is meant to be interpreted as a genuine threat. Partly because murder and cannibalism would be an extreme act of violence, entirely inappropriate to the situation.
Hey, don’t blame Dina too much. She was wearing her attracting a mate attire (not linking because you already know exactly which strip I’m talking about); and as shown three strips prior, it was clearly working. Again.
Well, what’s most important? Scientifically accurat depiction of dinosaurs, or getting laid?
Well, Dina? What’s your answer? We are waiting.
Screwball
*With her new intrest in hormone based activities, Dina finds it harder and harder to answer that question, especially since the Jurassic Park/World Raptors aren’t scientifically accurate…*
Yes, I pinched that off Daniel the Human before he could post. I won fair and Square…
Icalasari
It’s an advanced form of camouflage. Who expects the predator to look like an herbivore?
In this case Dina is like the boss from the Dinosaurs tv show. That guy was a triceratops, but he also was a carnivore by choice. That made him look evil and like some cannibalistic demon.
I speculated way back in the kidnapping arc that the lesson Dina took from not being able to bring Ross down in the woods was NOT that perhaps jumping an armed man three times your size was not the best thing to do, but that she needed to compensate for her lack of tooth and claws – in other words, arm herself.
250 thoughts on “5-foot turkey”
Ana Chronistic
ok badass mothereffin’ girlfriend
Schpoonman
I can’t decide if I like “mothertrucker” or “monstertrucker” more.
Doctor_Who
Never presume a woman does not have inaccurately portrayed velociraptors at her disposal.
Cholma
[Ninja Rick hangs up his sword, knowing he has been defeated for all time]
Cholma
This might make for a good new wallpaper: Becky in Galasso’s role, and Dina in Nick’s. “Never presume a woman does not have raptors at her command.”
Ed Rhodes
There’s a question. Would Dina even like “Jurassic Park,” given its inaccurate depiction of velociraptors? (And T. Rex, for that matter.)
Khyrin
“While I enjoy Jurassic Park superficially as a cornerstone of mainstream dinosaur themed entertainment, I cannot endorse it fully due to several paleontological errors.”
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Charles Phipps
Dina, are you familiar with Utahraptors? They are actually named after Jurassic Park veliocraptors scientifically because it turns out they mostly resemble the ones in the film due to being the size of horses.
Alaric
It’s true that Utahraptor is more like the Jurassic Park Velociraptors than actual Velociraptors were, but the part about the scientific name isn’t true. The name Utahraptor ostrommaysi has nothing to do with Jurassic Park (though interestingly enough Utahraptor was officially named and described the same month Jurassic Park came out). It’s true that they had considered naming it Utahraptor spielbergi, but that was because Spielberg had been talking about funding paleontological digs in exchange for having a dinosaur named after him, and that deal fell through before the name became official (note that that would have been before the movie came out).
showler
So…instead of being named after Spielberg it was named after Oscar Mayer?
Clif
Yes, it’s seldom used full name is Utahrapter. weineri.
Zellgato
I mean she’s aware they’re not real dinosaurs. They state. in the movie itself. they’re amalagums of 5+ different creatures to create something resembling what people thougth dinos were.
its like dino, frog, kimodo dragon? something and something.
so i think only them refering it to dinosaurs and not “dinosaurs” would be the only bother for her
Clif
Since DNA in amberized mosquitoes is out, our best bet now is back-evolving dinosaurs from chickens. Most of the genes are still there and for the rest we have genetic engineering.
S.R.
It was actually very accurate at the time. They put some of their funding into advancing the scientific community’s understanding of how dinosaurs would have worked. The T-Rex in particular was as close to reality as they could get it with what they knew.
The movie isn’t all scientifically accurate, but it DID portray realistic animal behavior. They made a sincere effort, and they contributed to actual knowledge. It’s also fun to watch. Most paleonerds at least acknowledge all of that.
The rest of the movies got decreasingly accurate as things went on, but the first one was really just good. Aside from the amber thing- DNA degrades too fast, you couldn’t get it out of amber.
thejeff
And the velociraptors themselves, where they basically took a cool sounding name and applied it to a different dinosaur.
And the abuse of chaos theory.
It wasn’t really that bad as movies go, but it wasn’t all that either.
JBento
The dilophosaurus is also sized wrong and it didn’t have the neckfrill, which are are also wrong in the book. Ironically, the velociraptor thing is the one people always point out but is actually accurate in the book – Spielberg changed it for the movie.
3oranges
I thought the Dilophosaurus was supposed to be a juvenile. In any case, the neck frill and venom were added on the assumption that at least one of the dinosaurs should have features we didn’t know about.
Which seems fair to me – not everything fossilizes. We didn’t know about things like boneless crests on hadrosaurs, dorsal spines on sauropods, or quills on ceratopsians until recently. I mean, how certain are you that Dilophosaurus didn’t have had a neck frill when they were young?
Mopey
I mean, kinda. It’s not like we used to think Velociraptors were the size of ponies or that the Dilophosaurus spit poison back in the 90s either. Spielberg, quite reasonably, let accuracy take a back seat whenever it suited the story and/or he wanted to make a cool scene.
JBento
The Dilophosaurus is on Crichton, not Spielberg – HE’s responsible for the Velociraptor size.
Mopey
Right, I keep forgetting there’s a novel.
foamy
My real question is if that’s an actual raptor claw. The real ones were, what, two and a half inches? That one looks a little large.
Charles Phipps
It’s either a replica or a utahraptor claw.
Ragnarok101
So it is actually possible for a human being to make a triangle smile.
Doctor_Who
Like Joyce’s?
I know it’s not geometrically perfect, but I always figured the old “Overly Attached Girlfriend” meme was basically what her smile would look like in real life.
For you youngins’.
Schpoonman
Different kind of crazy eyes.
Diane
I have now an instant love of Dina. Been see sawing for a long while, but it has triumphed over my dislike of her It’s Walky incarnation. I have never been happier. Get ‘er Dina.
Chronos
This was the first iteration of Dina I saw. When I got to see her It’s Walky version, I found myself strongly disappointed in her there. Her DoA incarnation is *way* better, indeed.
Suet
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Problem now is, not everyone would, or could, kow-tow to Dina
AeromechanicalAce
Keep bein’ good to her Becky, She’s a keeper.
Deanatay
I mean, srsly, I wouldn’t feel safe breaking up with her, now.
HeatherJean
This is a new and disturbing side of Dina. I think I like it.
p!enapple
0_0 sooooo Dina!!! thank you!!!!
Nono
I’m… conflicted? Like yes it’s Dina and Robin and it’s pretty much a comedy scene and so I’m on the side of Dina for that, but publicly threatening someone with violence to change their political beliefs is… Hm.
SUGauthor
I’m not a fan of threatening people with violence either, but this is less changing her political beliefs and more honoring the implicit promise she’s made to all the new progressives voters she’s courting.
Jamie
Oh, yeah, IRL this would not be cool. But is comic, and genuinely funny, so I’m on board.
Meagan
I appreciate this point.
Zaxares
My exact thoughts on this issue too. I appreciate what Dina is trying to do for Becky but… this is the equivalent of walking into your partner’s workplace and threatening their boss with a knife to give them a raise. Police would be called, and poor Dina would be stuck with a criminal record.
LeslieBean4shizzle
More like threatening someone with a soup spoon. Fossilized raptor claws are pretty blunt these days.
Not that you couldn’t get arrested for threatening someone with a soup spoon – it would just be for the threat rather than for the “weapon”.
Zaxares
Threatening to dig out someone’s eyes with a soup spoon and eating them would definitely be arrestable material, I think. 😉
FacelessDeviant
I’ve heard it is more than possible in Britain.
I’m refering to the police of London posting a picture of seized weapons and in among all the knives there was a dinner spoon.
S.R.
I don’t know that this is meant to be interpreted as a genuine threat. Partly because murder and cannibalism would be an extreme act of violence, entirely inappropriate to the situation.
Charles Phipps
Oh, I totally believe Dina would eat Robin alive. Betrayal of her lover after she gets you elected is very bad news bears.
Cyntalan
Isn’t Dina in the Triceratop tho?
Bagge
Hey, that’s right. Triceratops don’t have velicioraptor claws.
Come on, Dina. You are better than this.
Bagge
It’s not even the first time she made this mistake.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/04-walking-with-dina/carnivore/
Emperor Norton II
Hey, don’t blame Dina too much. She was wearing her attracting a mate attire (not linking because you already know exactly which strip I’m talking about); and as shown three strips prior, it was clearly working. Again.
Bagge
Well, what’s most important? Scientifically accurat depiction of dinosaurs, or getting laid?
Well, Dina? What’s your answer? We are waiting.
Screwball
*With her new intrest in hormone based activities, Dina finds it harder and harder to answer that question, especially since the Jurassic Park/World Raptors aren’t scientifically accurate…*
Yes, I pinched that off Daniel the Human before he could post. I won fair and Square…
Icalasari
It’s an advanced form of camouflage. Who expects the predator to look like an herbivore?
abysswatcher1993
In this case Dina is like the boss from the Dinosaurs tv show. That guy was a triceratops, but he also was a carnivore by choice. That made him look evil and like some cannibalistic demon.
He Who Abides
God, I forgot that little nugget of Nightmare Fuel.
butts
oh i didn’t think it was possible for me to love dina any more than i already did but here we are
Stephen Bierce
We don’t know the meaning of Fear
We play every moment by ear… (Paul McCartney’s ripoff of Adam Ant)
Bagge
I speculated way back in the kidnapping arc that the lesson Dina took from not being able to bring Ross down in the woods was NOT that perhaps jumping an armed man three times your size was not the best thing to do, but that she needed to compensate for her lack of tooth and claws – in other words, arm herself.
I was not entirely comfortable with that notion.
Yikes – turns out I was right.
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-6/01-to-those-whod-ground-me/troopers/#comment-857747
Bagge
Good thing Dina is so adorable – otherwise she would be friggin’ terrifying.
Opus the Poet
She’s adorifying.
Meagan
Oh yes
Bagge
Truth
He Who Abides
Terridorable.
KaiserKris
Adorabloodthirsty.
Lokitsu
Dina’s terrific. She inspires terror.
MatthewTheLucky
People do say she’s nice, though.
Zee
I’m glad you made that reference so I didn’t have to
Keulen
Dina, you’re the best.
DarkoNeko
“I am told this is fear” lol
Schpoonman
“I do not feel it myself, so I cannot confirm whether the look you wear is it. Please confirm for me.”
Allandrel
I took it more as Dina having the common autistic difficulty in reading facial expressions.
FacelessDeviant
I dunno about this whole “threatening politicians with sharp objects to make them change policies” thing. Seems like it could go sideways real fast.
Meagan
Yep. Someone else pointed that out above.
Charles Phipps
Yes, never threaten. Strike first, without mercy, and have Becky take over the campaign in memorium.
…
What?
Agemegos
Little error in your Latin, that’s all. I’m sure Niccolò Machiavelli would endorse your political advice as sound.