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New Zealand Girl Sends Prime Minister $5 'Bribe' To Fund Dragon Research
NPR ^ | May 14, 2019 | Vanessa Romo

Posted on 05/14/2019 1:33:55 PM PDT by Innovative

Bazillions of adult Game of Thrones fans may currently be preoccupied with dragons, and the mother of dragons and that giant dragon-killing-dart machine — but one girl in New Zealand is trying to get serious about the real-life study of dragons.

So much so that the 11-year-old recently tried to tempt Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern into launching a dragon research program, with a little bit of telekinesis studies on the side.

Unfortunately, the prime minister could not be bought. She said it was a no-go.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dragon; dragonresearch; newzealand; research
That's just what NZ needs, a study on dragons.
1 posted on 05/14/2019 1:33:55 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

That wasn’t a bribe, that was a donation.

If you repair the heart valves in crocodiles, they grow into dragons.


2 posted on 05/14/2019 1:36:12 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Innovative
"Am I a joke to you?" ~ Smaug


3 posted on 05/14/2019 1:37:00 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Innovative

Five dollars, please.
4 posted on 05/14/2019 1:41:33 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: Innovative

New Zealand needs to sink into the ocean, never to be seen again.


5 posted on 05/14/2019 1:43:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Innovative

Ripe for a takeover by people who take their religion seriously. Oh hang on. That’s already happening


6 posted on 05/14/2019 1:45:37 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: rightwingcrazy

Loch Ness monster just wants tree fitty.


7 posted on 05/14/2019 1:46:24 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Innovative
Make it a study of "gender identity of dragons and their effect on climate change" and watch the funding pour in.

8 posted on 05/14/2019 1:49:30 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Innovative

NPR calls this news?


9 posted on 05/14/2019 1:50:17 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Larry Lucido

: )


10 posted on 05/14/2019 1:53:53 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Zathras

npr is a disgrace to honesty, reality and reason . It is pathetic that these LIB lunatics get one penny of taxpayers’ money.


11 posted on 05/14/2019 1:55:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Larry Lucido

My moneys on the premier ever crazy ever relevant down wit it big ass biscut lovin’... c’mon give it up folks... can I get a hell yeah?... GIVE IT UP for my home monster Nessieeeee Loco!!


12 posted on 05/14/2019 2:06:11 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Innovative

what about the impact on global warming


13 posted on 05/14/2019 2:08:15 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Innovative

Whoever can control the dragons will have world dominance.


14 posted on 05/14/2019 2:08:24 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Innovative

I was just going to say, the girl has been watching a bit too much Game of Thrones.


15 posted on 05/14/2019 2:09:28 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (Trump: MAGA Biden: MAMA)
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I wonder if the Prime Minister would like to do a little research on a dungaree dragon? That’d be worth 5 NZD.


16 posted on 05/14/2019 2:25:28 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Innovative
At least the little girl has learned that politicians have to be bought.

She just has to understand how much she has to pay.

17 posted on 05/14/2019 3:06:38 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Innovative
Dragons are quite mysterious.


18 posted on 05/14/2019 3:18:47 PM PDT by CtBigPat (Qanon - Please be real...)
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I was just going to say, the girl has been watching a bit too much Game of Thrones.

And I have not even watched one infinitesimal second of Game of Thrones and if their commercials start I zip through them or change the channel.

19 posted on 05/14/2019 3:35:03 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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