Althouse: "How to eat a Triceratops."

October 25, 2012

"How to eat a Triceratops."

"Step one: get a good grip on the neck frill."

24 comments:

MadisonMan said...: This is important to know, I guess, in case I get transported back in time.; 10/25/12, 11:54 AM
Methadras said...: Don't worry about it. Backwards time travel is impossible. Under any circumstance.; 10/25/12, 11:55 AM
Unknown said...: I heard a paleontologist say once that tricerotops could eat logs and drink mud and prosper. I wish I had a herd of them. I bet they were tasty.; 10/25/12, 11:55 AM
Original Mike said...: First, find a Triceratops, ...; 10/25/12, 11:56 AM
Original Mike said...: Eustance: You are what you eat. I bet they were not tasty.; 10/25/12, 11:57 AM
Unknown said...: I like chicken. I do not like what a chicken eats. I'd eat a triceratops. By myself. Faster than Fred Flintstone.; 10/25/12, 12:00 PM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: Inventiveness was required back in those days because no one had yet invented the Triceratops opener.; 10/25/12, 12:03 PM
Original Mike said...: I think the proper tool for eating a Triceratops is the chain saw.; 10/25/12, 12:10 PM
SteveR said...: Same way you eat an elephant-one bite at a time; 10/25/12, 12:12 PM
Methadras said...: Eustace Chilke said...

I heard a paleontologist say once that tricerotops could eat logs and drink mud and prosper. I wish I had a herd of them. I bet they were tasty.

Are you kidding? If I had a herd of triceratops I'd use them to clear whole swaths of fields with logs and mud. They were the goats of their time.; 10/25/12, 12:12 PM
Mary Beth said...: Don't worry about it. Backwards time travel is impossible. Under any circumstance.

I'm sorry to hear that. I've done such an excellent job of mastering forward time travel I was hoping that someday I would have the other way figured out.; 10/25/12, 12:21 PM
Unknown said...: Then along would come a tyranosaur and kill one every now and then. You could chase the t rex off and have lunch. It's a win/win.; 10/25/12, 12:21 PM
YoungHegelian said...: Of course, the real argument was over whether Triceratops meat was best smoked with hickory or mesquite.; 10/25/12, 12:39 PM
Wince said...: I wonder if Jesus, riding by on a dinosaur 2,000 years ago, ever stopped to bring a triceratops back to life?; 10/25/12, 12:44 PM
wyo sis said...: Mitchell wins the thread.; 10/25/12, 12:49 PM
Methadras said...: Mary Beth said...

Don't worry about it. Backwards time travel is impossible. Under any circumstance.

I'm sorry to hear that. I've done such an excellent job of mastering forward time travel I was hoping that someday I would have the other way figured out

Yeah, I hate to be a debbie downer. I'd love for backwards time travel to be true too. Oh well.; 10/25/12, 1:08 PM
Dr Weevil said...: So that stuff about dinosaurs and birds being basically the same thing is just nonsense? Because 'neck meat' is not the best part of a chicken, in quality or (especially) in quantity. You take the heads off chickens to kill them, or to liven up a rock concert, but not to get at the neck meat.; 10/25/12, 1:16 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: MadisonMan said...
This is important to know, I guess, in case I get transported back in time.

Methadras said...
Don't worry about it. Backwards time travel is impossible. Under any circumstance.

What you really need to worry about is if any of the triceratops figured out forward time travel. If so, you'd better be prepared to eat one.; 10/25/12, 1:21 PM
Unknown said...: Triceratops were pretty dim I think. The best chance to see one time travelling forward might be if a tyranosaur brought some along for provisions.; 10/25/12, 1:37 PM
Wince said...: More importantly, have they found any evidence that the way to kill a T-Rex is to spread its jaws until either the upper or lower pallet cracks, like King Kong did?; 10/25/12, 1:46 PM
traditionalguy said...: The first thing is to get the Triceratops drunk on wine. That reduces its natural fear of the Rex's smile.

Then he whispers in her ear about how much he loves her figure.

After that she will let him kiss her...then he gives that great Rex roar as he devours her.

Oh... you meant actually eating her.; 10/25/12, 2:01 PM
Rusty said...: Methadras said...
Don't worry about it. Backwards time travel is impossible. Under any circumstance.

Oh. With enough acid you can travel to just about anyplace.; 10/25/12, 2:12 PM
sakredkow said...: First, find a Triceratops, ...

Check in the tops of the trees.; 10/25/12, 2:24 PM
Clyde said...: I think I'll stick to the bronto-burgers.; 10/25/12, 6:42 PM