Comment of the Day: So Many Years: @korybing: "Sometimes I sit around and think about how mammoths went extinct AFTER the pyramids were built...
...We lived closer to Tyrannosaurus than tyrannosaurus lives to stegosaurus. Betty White is older than factory-sliced bread. Oxford University is older than the founding of the Aztec Capitol of Tenochtitlán....
Minivet: When you use a celebrity's name as metonym for a point in history, it feels like a cheat to be referring to their birthdate when the career they're known for started much later. Technically true, but that's all....
Moby Hick: oth Oxford and Tenochtitlán produced many people who didn't like Spaniards.
Peep: But Chomper and Spike were friends.
Robert Halford: The Mammoth thing is kind of nonsense. I think he's talking about the tiny survivor populations of mammoths that lived on Wrangel Island or St. Paul Island. Feels like cheating. Sure there were a few mammoths existing in the world but it's not like there were herds moving down La Brea Ave when the pyramids were being built. I tell my kid the stegosaurus/T.Rex thing all the time, to the point where my daughter pulled an "everyone KNOWS that ALREADY" the last time we were at the natural history museum....
Peep: "But it's not like there were herds moving down La Brea Ave when the pyramids were being built" Even then there were traffic jams in LA....
Pee;: My stepdaughter is making me correct 10. Chomper did not appear in the original Land Before Time movie. His first appearance was in the sequel The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure....
Peep: Anyway, 6 is wrong. The Egyptians used the mammoths to carry the stones for the pyramids. When the Hebrews escaped they rode on the mammoths across the Red Sea. But then the mammoths died during the 40 years in the desert, and that's why they are extinct....
Moby Hick: "Blanche dates an Oxford don"?
Robert Halford: "Blanche dates a Stegosaurus"
Academic Lurker: Can anyone name the last dinosaur to get an Oxford degree?....
Essear Niall Ferguson?
