I got home from work to find that my new blue budgie, Remy, had fallen off the high perch and died in the fall. Hardly more than a baby, and such a sweet little guy. I never even had time to take his photo.
you might remember the "hobbit" possibly a proponent of a race of smal homonoids living long time ago, far far away (on an Indonesian island to be a bit more precise). The hunted dwarved elephants. (The idea is that live on islands (small enough - isolated long enough) will miniturize life forms).
I've been told the flying ancient reptile we see joyfully fill our screens every week is not stricly a pterdactyl. (Someone on the Torchwood community seemed to be knowledgable at this area).
I am afraid, whether the creature goes by the name of pterodactyl (wich sounds like a metrum for a Greek poem, I think) or any other, that I would not realy have the accomodations for it.
I think, strictly speaking, it's a pteranodon (it has the head-crest), but pterodactyl is the generic name for the family of animals: it means 'wing-fingered', as their wings are skin flaps stretched between their finger-bones (like bats' wings).
I have no problem with calling it a pterodactyl because the show calls it a pterodactyl. Perhaps Captain Jack knows something about it that we don't. (A pterodon in disguise? A pterodon by any other name would smell as fishy?) Even if if looked like a blowfish, I see no point in calling it by a name that isn't used in the show.
I'm all for fictional realities.
(Of course, if this were a point of medieval history, I'd probably react quite differently.)
The tail would have to be longer to balance the crest, if the crest is longer. In the same way a budgie's tail-feathers are long, to balance the head and the body.
Something like that. Anyway, to say a pteranodon isn't a pterodactyl would be like saying that a budgie isn't a bird, when budgieness is a subset of birdness.
I'm sure if I ask Logan he'll inform me that a budgie is a bird - a bird of the very best type, and the best there is at what he does!
(If you aren't enough up on X-Men to know, that's a tag line for Wolverine, a.k.a. Logan - "He the best there is at what he does." Usually followed by a line about what it is he does, whatever that may be in any given story. Last one I read was "He the best there is at what he does, and what he does - isn't shopping!")
I too have heard it said. I looked up 'pterodactyl' and 'pterodon' in Wikipedia, decided that the distinction was a pedantry and that in common parlance - and ooh, what a silly phrase that is - 'pterodactyl' is a fine umbrella word for both.
It does sound like a Greek metre. I assume there's a similar word-root - finger/foot/digit, some meaning like that? I have wondered why 'foot' is the word for a syllable of poetry, and it just occurred to me (duh!) that it's probably because, to keep a beat, we tap our feet.
Or maybe that's one of those silly derivations and it's nothing like that at all.
The care and feeding of a pterodactyl must be tricky, though Jack and Ianto seem to have sorted it out - at least well enough to keep their alive.
Especially if it meant living in the Hub! Now, I have a nice little fountain that runs water with a pretty tinkly sound when I remember to fill it. The Hub has a whole bloody waterfall! And all those neat tunnels and odd spaces and white tiles. Nice central downtown location, too.
eh, it only works for stuff that breeds - for we need generations and generations before this happens. So if you want to take advantage of this you must make sure that your coffeemaker and hoover are sexually active after a month or so.
Or maybe there is only cross species sex in your house, that doesn't result in any offspring. To have at least a smithereen of change that the minitorisation breeding programm is succesfull you need at least two of everything.
(Like with many things, you make the problem worse before improvement comes)
The only thing I have successfully bred was budgies, and truthfully, I didn't have to do anything except put Simon and Wisdom in the same cage for a while. Then suddenly there were these hatching eggs.
The rest of the household furniture seems to be sterile.
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Date: 2006-12-13 12:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-12-13 12:53 pm (UTC)Or what about a pterodactyl? All the best people have them!
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Date: 2006-12-13 01:08 pm (UTC)I am afraid, whether the creature goes by the name of pterodactyl (wich sounds like a metrum for a Greek poem, I think) or any other, that I would not realy have the accomodations for it.
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Date: 2006-12-13 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 01:41 pm (UTC)I'm all for fictional realities.
(Of course, if this were a point of medieval history, I'd probably react quite differently.)
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Date: 2006-12-13 02:16 pm (UTC)(If you aren't enough up on X-Men to know, that's a tag line for Wolverine, a.k.a. Logan - "He the best there is at what he does." Usually followed by a line about what it is he does, whatever that may be in any given story. Last one I read was "He the best there is at what he does, and what he does - isn't shopping!")
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Date: 2006-12-13 01:51 pm (UTC)It does sound like a Greek metre. I assume there's a similar word-root - finger/foot/digit, some meaning like that? I have wondered why 'foot' is the word for a syllable of poetry, and it just occurred to me (duh!) that it's probably because, to keep a beat, we tap our feet.
Or maybe that's one of those silly derivations and it's nothing like that at all.
The care and feeding of a pterodactyl must be tricky, though Jack and Ianto seem to have sorted it out - at least well enough to keep their alive.
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Date: 2006-12-13 01:46 pm (UTC)I'd love one. Do you think my landlord would object? Damn, I wish Captain Jack could be my landlord!
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Date: 2006-12-13 02:18 pm (UTC)I wouldn't mind that in the least!
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Date: 2006-12-13 02:05 pm (UTC)The idea is that live on islands (small enough - isolated long enough) will miniturize life forms).
So why doesn't the same think work for urban apartments? I always have trouble fitting stuff in - !
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Date: 2006-12-13 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 08:20 pm (UTC)And here I'd been wasting my time lecturing them on safe sex!
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Date: 2006-12-13 08:26 pm (UTC)Or maybe there is only cross species sex in your house, that doesn't result in any offspring. To have at least a smithereen of change that the minitorisation breeding programm is succesfull you need at least two of everything.
(Like with many things, you make the problem worse before improvement comes)
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Date: 2006-12-13 08:28 pm (UTC)The rest of the household furniture seems to be sterile.