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To: fishtank

It’s not a Stegosaurus.

There is no Thangomizer attached to the tail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer


8 posted on 06/23/2014 9:36:59 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian
It’s not a Stegosaurus. There is no Thangomizer attached to the tail.

ROTFL!


13 posted on 06/23/2014 9:46:06 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Conan the Librarian

The explanation is funny:

“The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; the term Thagomizer was coined in 1982 by cartoonist Gary Larson in his The Far Side comic strip, and thereafter became gradually adopted as an informal term within scientific circles, research, and education.”


22 posted on 06/23/2014 10:45:17 AM PDT by Disambiguator (#cornedbeef)
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To: Conan the Librarian

From the picture, it seems to me that one could argue that the tail is not completely drawn, especially the part where the thagomizer would be located.


25 posted on 06/23/2014 11:30:21 AM PDT by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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