(February 19, 2018 at 4:56 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(February 18, 2018 at 5:33 pm)chimp3 Wrote: A thread for posting interesting facts and trivia.
Did you know that the 4 spikes on the tail of the Stegosaurus had no name. Then Gary Larsen named it the "Thagomizer" in a Far Side cartoon. (After the late Thag Simmons) "Thagomizer" is now the name for this feature and is used by scientists.
A similar thing happened with a not the nine o clock news sketch with "whoop" now being the name for a group of gorillas.
This is true, however the NTNON neologism is 'flange'. 'Whoop' is one of the official nouns, alongside 'band' and 'troop'.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
