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Vid no worky for mobiles.. But at least she lives again.

So.. I was a wonderin' what everyone has been up to?
Since getting evicted I read lord of the rings four and a bit times (only books I thought to save ) and listened to far too much radio.. Like sixteen hours of radio four a day. Was bored and lonesome is my excuse, not that the former needs one but the latter.. Well it beats listening to neighbours through the walls or ceiling.
But enough about the king, how about you?
What adventures were had, what lays have ye?

Ten qi points for naming the movie quote too

Well you can't all have done sod all..
Generally speaking also, I think it'd be quite interesting to read some anecdotes. Regardless of the time-scale like...

I'll end up talking about myself again and nobody wants that.
an anecdote: I got into a fair amount of trouble in school (though was never technically expelled) one particular instance I had not yet finished my first week at another new school; I went to see the head and asked to be excluded, adding a few decidedly immature but effective words I got my wish for one week.. After that though I didn't go back until a week or so later when a teacher came to my home and offered to take me to school and back for individual lessons. Did this for maybe another week then just refused to go at all again. Eventually a last from the young offenders team was dispatched and offered services (I wasn't in trouble with the law, just they had funding available) she took me for a curry and to see the matrix reloaded at the cinema, unlike the young offenders I could choose what to do see?
For a reason I can't rightly remember I refused to engage with this too..
Then rather fortuitously I was referred to a youth charity, where I made my first recording and became their pet project for a while.. Also where I learned to play ska from am old hand...
Anyways I could go on all week.. Not that others should follow that example at all, but it's amazing what one can get away with and how even very silly choices can lead to unique opportunities. K, I'll stop for now.
There's always more though, so for the greater good somebody else should tell us a tale.

Not sure this really belongs in this thread, but you might find it interesting anyway.

Recently (in the last few months) I got a new full-time job as a welder / fabricator making truck bodies, I passed my driving test first time, I spent Christmas with MONKEY and her family, and I've been put on Citalopram by my GP for an anxiety disorder. I also went to see a psychiatrist and have been officially described as likely having AS ("officially" meaning it's been documented permanently in my medical records). Yet still no official diagnosis....

Also I've developed the mother of all interests in Dinosaurs again, especially Parasaurolophi!

Erm.... not much else to add really.

It's a shame you can't watch the video. It's good, basically it describes and plays the reconstruction of a Parasaurolophus call, and mentions how the air travelled through the inner tubes in the head crest, and the resulting resonance. It also says about how Parasaurolophi had a remarkable auditory cortex, and that they would have often used infrasound to communicate with other members of the herd (as to not attract predators - much more covert that way).

There is also evidence in Corythosaurus of very slender stapes, which is a type of reptilian ear bone located in the middle ear, which along with a large space for the eardrum indicates a very highly sensitive sense of hearing. Corythosaurus, along with pretty much all hadrosaurs (which Parasaurolophus is a member of), have a similar head and ear structure, meaning Parasaurolophus would have at least the same hearing capabilities as Corythosaurus, although it's more likely it would have actually had an even more sensitive and complex hearing process as it had a larger auditory cortex. In fact Parasaurolophus had the largest brain of all herbivores, and it's EQ (brain size compared with body size) was the highest of all the hadrosaurs.

In other words, Parasaurolophus was a reasonably intelligent animal with a quite advanced method of communication. As each crest for each Parasaurolophus was different, and the inner tubes differed too (some would compare this to the same sort of differences found with fingerprints or snowflakes - no two are the same), each Para had it's own distict "accent" which distinguished it from any other Parasaurolophus, so herd members would know exactly who they are talking to from many miles away without even having to see their friend.

Infrasound could also have been used as a deterrent to predators if the need arose. When multiple Paras grouped together, the sound from so many low frequencies would have given the predator an uneasy feeling, perhaps even a feeling of nausia, just like how some people feel sick when experiencing loud low bass sounds with music. Not exactly the "brown sound", but close enough.

Anyway, paras are immense.

Here's some more info if you want it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasaurolophus

Yay! Thanks muchly Usagi
It is indeed interesting to me and the paras will have to be read in-depth again.
Also the only criteria for this thread is that You find it quite interesting so almost everything is very welcome plus I did ask just today what others have been doing lol
Haven't got the full Dino bug since I was little.. First cinema trip I remember was actually jurassic park, though it gave my sadistic subconscious nightmare ammo for years afterwards lol was only 5 iirc
Bonus points for you and now the others have hopefully more encouragement, other than stopping fudo.

Glad to know I've pleased fudo and Fudo.
I'll be taking my absence from WP now for a little while, I'm at MONKEY's house and I think I'm boring her by being on here.

Anyway, last little factoid before I go:

Baby hadrosaurs had the same facial characteristics as baby humans, that is, they had big heads in proportion to their bodies, and big round eyes. This is believed to have evoked the same maternal instincts in hadrosaur mothers that human mothers experience.

I think the most noticeable evidence for this is found in Maiasaura specimens. (Maiasaura roughly being translated as "good mother lizard").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiasaura

fudo's definitely pleased Fudo was rather unmoved, shockingly
well you've impressed more than enough for one night.
Sayonara Usagi-mimi, say "hello me old China"from fudo

Fudo, I was chanting the words in your sig at Aikido a few weeks ago. I guess we must have been imploring you to cleanse the dojo with fire

Quite interesting for me to see them here.

When you point at something for a dog, they'll never look at the line of the finger, they'll just look at the finger.

I'm Stephen Fry, goodnight.

How awesome he's said to be patron of martial arts, in some literature anyway there are a few Fudo-ryu about afaik
But yea the mantra calls on him as the great pervading vajra or destroyer iirc
Ahh I'm just happy to see o fudo sama get a mention, made me smile may he purify and protect all who ask it

He has indeed said such a thing, correcting Alan as far as I remember.. But then he also has said "my bottom is a treasure house"

Purple rhymes with Hurple...The sort of sprained ankle limp Zombies are usually associated with.

This fact has probably been mentioned, but I can't be asked to trawl through 66 pages worth of Quite Interesting facts.

Hurple Paze all in my brain

Pretty sure the whole episode Is here somewhere..

and the origin of the word purple.
Still, nice to see the thread pick up.thanks
Btw, no trivia from the pilot to the end of series h is unknown to fudo any longer.. But it's all stored in a barliman butterbur-esque lumber room.