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DinoBus
The DinoBus is coming, and everybody's jumping... | |
I stood, lonely and surrounded by a small crowd of
commuters, swaddled against the bitter wind, waiting.
The muffled roar of a diesel engine, straining against
the
low gears of city commuting, filtered through the
remnants
of the fog of my morning, caffeine struggling to dispel
the
wisps
and banks of sleep and exhaustion.
When it arrived I realised I was looking at one of the
new
city buses... a massive Triceratops, with rubber horns
and
roughly dimpled hide, its jaws gaping wide to receive
another influx of passengers.
Several people exited beneath the behemoth's raised tail
while I swiped my travel card and made my way to a seat
just behind the massive front knee.
The morning was looking up. This was my first ride on
one
of the new T Line vehicles. Maybe tomorrow I'd get a
Tyrannosaur or a Titanosaur!
Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
CatBus
http://www.higashik...s/magicnekoride.jpg
Barely-related whimsy [Alterother, Apr 23 2012]
Drive faster!
http://www.hiphopsi...Zoo_Bus.preview.jpg
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 24 2012]
baked as a car!
http://commons.wiki...inosaur_vehicle.jpg
[xandram, Apr 24 2012]
[link]
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The initial rollout would cause problems with those that only commute at night, but otherwise YES.
I want a velociraptor taxi. |
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Lewis Carroll:
He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk
Descending from the bus:
He looked again, and found it was
A Hippopotamus |
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Great! Straight from Jurrasic Parks to Rosa Parks... |
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Dr Ian Malcolm, in a rush to get to work, approaches
the bus driver: |
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Does it feature a half-eaten goat? |
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[xandram]! I was at Bestival 2010, and I saw that dino! |
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Triceratops was a vegesaurus, [Alter]. However, the
driver of the T. rex models has a goat tethered to his
seat. Does that help? |
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Sure, why not. Goats are helpful in many scenarios. They
aren't nearly as helpful as rhinoceroses, but that's a very
difficult standard to equal. |
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It was probably the T. Rex taxi I was thinking of when I
posted that anno anyway. I don't really remember. I'm on
some post-op pain meds and have subsequently had even
less contact with reality than usual. Oh, look, I posted a
link, too! |
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Lack of contact with reality is no real impediment to
halfbaking. |
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[theleopard] so cool that you went there!! (now we know how [UB] gets his ideas)!! haha |
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but is halfbaking an impediment to contact with reality ? |
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Only if performed while observing the correct safety
procedures. Oh, look, I posted a link, too! |
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"My Friend Totoro"? One of them Studio Ghibli ones.. |
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Got it in one. Not my favorite of Miazaki's (that would be
'Porco Russo'), but they're all good. |
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//is halfbaking an impediment to contact with
reality ?// I bloody hope so. |
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>Not my favorite of Miazaki's |
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I preferred his Wagner's Ring Cycle, the one with talking cats and 20 ft clowns. Notices the Laudanum bottle is nearly empty. |
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If only Kafka had a chance to do a rewrite of LOTR,
while I'm thinking of it. |
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I'd prefer a Douglas Adams rewrite. 'The Hobbit's Guide to the Middle Galaxy' or somesuch. |
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I'd cry heresy*, but that actually sounds pretty interesting. |
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* The 42nd Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Fuck Around
With Important Literature. |
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LOTR is "serious literature"? You're fucking kidding,
right? |
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No, I'm not. It's not right at the top of my 'most important
fiction of all time' list, but it's on it. If you don't
understand, go read it again. If you read it again and still
don't understand, A) you don't understand the significance
of language and mythology in modern literature, and 3) I'll
happily argue over it until the hobbits come home. |
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Hey! Hey now... put down the, put it down. Just put it...
Don't ma... just d... |
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Can we all agree that LOTR rings was a serious work of art?
Can we do that? |
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Anyway, [Alterother] said '"important" not "serious" and
there is a difference. |
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There is. Lord of the Rings is both. |
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I think I tackled it when I was 12 or 13... all the names that began with "G" (ie: most of them) ran together. |
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Yeah, yeah, it has too many characters with
unpronouncable names, it has too many endings, too many
subplots, etc. I've heard all the complaints... |
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Read it again. If you do not find in it a profound and
timeless message intertwined with a beautiful work of
fiction that is simply enjoyable in its own right, the likes of
which will never, _can_ never be written again, then there
is nothing I nor modern medicine can do to cure your
condition, and you have my sympathies. |
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Didn't say I didn't enjoy it, and I've read it at least 4-5 times over the years. |
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Sorry. My back hurts and I'm irritable. I should never anno
when I'm in a pissy mood. |
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Anyway, I was probably talking to [UnaBubba]. At this
distance, it's hard to tell which one of you I'm looking at.
Curvature of the Earth, and all that. |
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not like I couldn't have said "the *first* time I tackled it" or anything... sleep cycle's off. |
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It's a large chunk of fiction rather well thought out and detailed which I haven't read in at least a couple decades, but I'm currently 5 books behind, including a biography of Glenn Gould and memoirs of a WWII Lancaster bombardier. |
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^jealous. I've run out of unread books (of the readable
variety). |
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