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Paleontologist unveils African dinosaur

news.com.au — A PALEONTOLOGIST has unveiled a 110-million-year-old African dinosaur with a weird anatomy, including a mouth that powered through greenery like a vacuum

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  • acidbass, on 11/18/2007, -8/+67FTA, The name of the new Dinosaur: "Nigersaurus taqueti"

    Count down to poorly written racist jokes in 3, 2, .....
    • ChaosProfessor, on 11/18/2007, -27/+3ha that sounds like the N-WORD is N word Hyphonated?
      • badjoke, on 11/18/2007, -1/+4I don't know, but random words in the middle of sentences aren't capitalized.
      • identifiedlogo, on 11/18/2007, -7/+1Wikipedia has it hyphonated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/***** ; but the media usually uses "N" Word ,with double quotation
      • Swift2, on 11/18/2007, -0/+9Dopes. Ever heard of the country of Niger? Where the yellowcake uranium WASN'T sold to Saddam?
    • cl1tcommander, on 11/18/2007, -21/+70FTA -"It's diet consisted mostly of watermelon, collard greens, and grape drink. It is believed to have gone instinct during the ice age, when ice formation on it's huge lips prevented it from lifting it's head in order to eat or drink."
      Digg me up you racist bastards.
      • geno24, on 11/18/2007, -26/+3wow i honestly havent laughed that hard at text for a while, you actually made me LOG in to digg u up.

        if you digg it down ur a ***** rofl. GLINCOD4
      • EvilDr.X, on 11/18/2007, -1/+14Gone instinct?
      • vinecrawler, on 11/18/2007, -1/+14you mean purple drink?
        • cl1tcommander, on 11/18/2007, -1/+4purple drink hadn't evolved yet
      • rmeddy, on 11/18/2007, -0/+4What the ***** is juice?
    • krunchy, on 11/18/2007, -13/+19Also FTA: "Its cause of extinction is thought to be the fossilized nooses found around each of their necks."
      • atomofconsumpti, on 11/18/2007, -9/+2what the hell is "FTA"????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    • over90000, on 11/18/2007, -12/+6Why are black people so tall?

      Because their knee grows.
    • WaltDismal, on 11/18/2007, -3/+9In latest news, the NBA is seeking scientists who can time-travel...
    • BearinG, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1The Nigersaurus was often considered a rich Prince that needed a bank account to deposit millions of dollars.. all they asked from the other species was for them to give them their account number and they would receive 20% of his wealth..
  • mishaco, on 11/18/2007, -34/+6another prop sent to test our faith . jesus christ doesn't care about african PALEONTOLOGISTs .
    • platypibri, on 11/18/2007, -2/+3Brother... don't try and help. Ok?
    • superrod, on 11/19/2007, -0/+0I'm pretty sure He doesn't really care about you either.
  • bonds, on 11/18/2007, -18/+16A white guy, an asian guy, and a dinosaur walk into a bar...
    • threethirty, on 11/18/2007, -4/+6this is the only decent joke in these comments, ty for at least keeping it tasteful.
      • bonds, on 11/18/2007, -1/+2And I still got dug down for it, loller
  • Laodicea, on 11/18/2007, -52/+15lmao...nigersaurus....

    I wonder what made this thing extinct? AIDS?
    • superrod, on 11/19/2007, -0/+0Wrong African country, you idiot.
    • platypibri, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1I'm not going around digging down the bad college humor. But I don't think AIDS is ever funny. The racist jokes are in bad taste, but what you did... just really not funny. Even if you ARE a racist, if you're human, you don't want anyone to die that way.
  • Hoxie, on 11/18/2007, -3/+36The accompanying picture is probably the most retarded thing I've seen all week.
    • tangofish, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1After most of the comments on this page.
  • duke, on 11/18/2007, -6/+1A frickin dinosaur???
    • dillyhoo, on 11/18/2007, -1/+2What else did you think the paleontologist was going to unveil?
      • fantasticFlan, on 11/18/2007, -0/+1A giant amphibian.
      • duke, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1I think you missed the pun: African ---> A frican ----> A frickin
  • theghoul, on 11/18/2007, -16/+4Alright, who named this thing?!!?!
    I betcha if it was called "crackerraptor" there would be a big stink.
    • dillyhoo, on 11/18/2007, -0/+8It was found in Niger, and before you jump on that it's pronounced "Nee-jair"
      • EvilDr.X, on 11/18/2007, -1/+4And Uranus is pronounced "Yur-uh-nus", but that hasn't stopped the jokes, now has it?
        • Sornos, on 11/18/2007, -0/+3Actually, both pronunciations are accepted. It's not like "Yur-ay-nus" was made up by English speaking jokers.
    • Scheissen, on 11/18/2007, -10/+2aww you're black
    • nailer, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1I think a Crackerraptor would be awesome.
  • coffee200am, on 11/18/2007, -8/+2Something is tickling me...I don't know what it is but I'm giggling...
    • penguinomint, on 11/18/2007, -0/+7gerbel get stuck in your ass again?
  • judicar, on 11/18/2007, -4/+27Strangely the spinners and gold leaf paint were still intact.
  • identifiedlogo, on 11/18/2007, -1/+19That dinosaur would kill those scientists who constructed its model. here is the actual picture of its skull http://news.my.msn.com/topstories/article.aspx?cp- ...
    • fantasticFlan, on 11/18/2007, -0/+5Holy crap. The side-view does not do this thing justice.
    • ShagratOfMordor, on 11/18/2007, -1/+4Wooo! Look at the grille on that Nigersaurus.
  • dottedline, on 11/18/2007, -9/+7hahahahaahhah nigersaurus is the best thing highly educated men can come up with? thats amazing.
  • JaggedHairball, on 11/18/2007, -0/+4"The vertebrae are so paper-thin that it is difficult to imagine them coping with the stresses of everyday use, but we know that they did."

    What the hell?
    • RobotCitizen, on 11/18/2007, -4/+6The dinosaur's backbone had to be at least strong enough for Jesus to sit on.
  • coffee200am, on 11/18/2007, -8/+9Al Sharpton needs to be called immediately!
    • ShagratOfMordor, on 11/18/2007, -0/+3Scientists of limited means make poor marks for a shakedown.
  • LuxFX, on 11/18/2007, -1/+3Weird image of Paul Sereno (consider, he was one of People magazines 50 Most Beautiful People in 1997). The guy is really cool, though. I met him once when I was at the University of Chicago. He had just gotten back from an African expedition and the only spot big enough to unload and unpack his findings was in the same science building I happened to do tech support in. We threw a welcome back party and he set up a few of the fossils he had just taken out of their plaster jackets, including the Carcharodontosaurus skull he found. He was handing around some of the smaller items, like a Carcharodontosaurus claw, and a sauropod (can't remember which, if it had even been named then) tarsal, which he handed me himself. One of the coolest days of my life.
  • Racerx52, on 11/18/2007, -5/+10Immediately after reading the article title, i thought of a T-Rex with an afro and a leisure suit.
    Dyno-mite!
  • Coy0te, on 11/18/2007, -5/+39niggasaurus please
  • luet, on 11/18/2007, -3/+7...nigersaurus... honestly? I don't think I've heard of any canadasaurus or americasaurus.
  • platypibri, on 11/18/2007, -1/+7I remember getting sent to the office the day I learned to pronounce Nigh-Jer the hard way.

    • bonds, on 11/18/2007, -4/+3Then your school was run by a bunch of busterass tricks. Gettin sent to the office for pronouncing a word the way it's spelled. What in the ***** is the matter with this country? Buncha markass bustas.
  • chrisinsocalif, on 11/18/2007, -1/+3Paleontologists are good examining plants and fossils, no so much with the names.
  • threemagic, on 11/18/2007, -1/+10Did it wear a big purple hat with an Archaeopteryx feather in it?
  • diversionmary, on 11/18/2007, -0/+7All of these comments, I'm dying of laughter and my wife thinks I'm crazy!
  • ChooseReality, on 11/18/2007, -1/+4Just wait til Al Sharpton gets wind of this one!
  • foxyfox, on 11/18/2007, -1/+9Lmao! Nigersaurus.
    I'm sure conservative Christians believe humans rode that dinosaur as well.
    • bonds, on 11/18/2007, -1/+6Fox News: "This newest dinosaur discovered on the so-called Dark Continent, Africa, has been aptly named Nigersaurus. It is believed that it was an indentured servant, and adorned itself in shiny plant materials."
  • jizzlies, on 11/18/2007, -0/+3Dinosaurs are awesome. Maybe they can put this one in a new Walking with Dinosaurs show;
  • aschocobo, on 11/18/2007, -4/+2ahh. now i understand why...most "reddit"ers hate the digg populace...
    • grungemusic3001, on 11/18/2007, -1/+1because we do it for the lulz?
  • Swift2, on 11/18/2007, -7/+6Very cool, stupid little boys. Why, you're making fratboy racist jokes... idiotic.
  • Swift2, on 11/18/2007, -1/+6http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Niger
    Click the button for the pronunciation. "N-AI-jer." Of course, it is Latin for "black," but it was a French colony, and therefore the people who live there call it "Nee-ZHAIR," so it doesn't sound like your stupid jokes at all. Of course, nobody's noticing the one thing that is funny: he looks like JarJar Binks.
  • KingBunny, on 11/18/2007, -1/+2Okay, so "Niger" is Latin for "black", and it is the base word for.. another word. I can't believe they actually named it this.

    ...also, that pic looks ridiculous. More pics would be nice.
  • wwwluckyro, on 11/18/2007, -2/+6You're live on Techcrunch! :P
    http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/17/could-a-niger ...
    • 2pence, on 11/18/2007, -0/+6amazing what they find news worthy these days.
      • thelastcivilian, on 11/18/2007, -2/+1Hmmm... one of the Top 100 websites on the internet letting its users behave in horribly racist fashion... for a website that tracks web companies, this might be news. Just because they're "jokes" doesn't magically excuse them.
  • blueboxed, on 11/18/2007, -1/+2JARJARBINKS?
  • zawadi70, on 11/18/2007, -0/+3I would love to see how the admin here handles this thread,
    • ShagratOfMordor, on 11/18/2007, -0/+2Reparations?
    • platypibri, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1I think this is the kind you just let go away on their own. Luckily, while the racist joke pond is broad, it isn't very deep. The jokes are repeating themselves already.
  • Yowza, on 11/18/2007, -1/+2http://digg.com/tech_news/Could_A_Nigersaurus_Get_ ...
  • kelly, on 11/18/2007, -2/+8110-million-year-old...

    burying solely on this loaded statement

    The earth is only approximately 6,000 years old.
    • gentk, on 11/18/2007, -0/+2o.O
      This might be a slow moment, but I still can't tell if that's sarcasm or what.
    • ridd1e, on 11/18/2007, -1/+1that was good ;) :D
    • tangofish, on 11/19/2007, -1/+1At last a reason to smile in one wholly depressing thread.
    • platypibri, on 11/19/2007, -0/+3Straw man. Very few Christians actually think the Earth is 6000 years old. Jewish scholars pretty much agree there are large gaps in the various genealogies used to calculate this number.
  • stevepoland, on 11/18/2007, -0/+7Let me ask you a question. When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front that said Dead Nigersaurus?
  • comedianX, on 11/18/2007, -0/+2"a mouth that powered through greenery like a vacuum"

    I guess it was a Hoover-vore. Milton Berle's 102 Party Jokes, thank you.
  • superrod, on 11/19/2007, -2/+0If they found a new dinosaur in eastern europe, studies would show that it prostituted itself for meat.
  • bredren, on 11/19/2007, -0/+1You're live on RapSpace.TV: http://rapspace.tv/niggasaurus-please

    Hip hop's answer to TechCrunch!
  • JadoJodo, on 11/19/2007, -0/+0Don't Be A Menace To South Africa While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood.
  • yugimoto2005, on 11/28/2007, -0/+0first time i saw it , all i remembered was cannibus-nigganometry lolz. i thought i twas a parody of thesaurus. but i stand corrected.
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