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My dingo wants a koala.

fark the cranberry sauce, I want some pate.

For some reason, I read that as "Giant Cheese". I should not be working today.

In the style of the freakish holiday feast Turducken.

You could cram a hog inside a cow and then stuff them into one of these geese and make a Goosowig.

John Madden would die eating it.

jam a sherpa into a pig, into a cow.. then the cow into this goose and have a
sherpicogoose
the important thing is:
can we bring this animal back to life?

i wonder what animals we have actually brought back to life but never told anyone?
where is the real Jurrasic Park?

I'm with you leathermidget,...

Now, that's some good eatin'

The reporter that wrote this story is worthless. The most obvious question that arises about the discovery is, "why are these birds considered geese?" Is that question answered? No.

It went extinct about 30,000 years ago?

Sounds like the aborigines ate them all. I'll bet they were tasty. And just imagine the omelette you could make from one of the eggs.

Giant geese worth a gander

August 14, 2002 Posted: 10:19 PM EDT (0219 GMT)

So old it's new again!

BTW, If Canada geese do the number they do on cars and golf courses, I'd hate to have seen the DMB tourbus turd shower this thing left behind.

How long did this link take to get greenlighted? The date on the article is August 14, 2002.

I submitted this article with a better dateline.

You know what's sad sad sad? I think MOST people refer to "the dingo ate my baby" from SEINFELD.

sad sad sad.

/fta.

duck...

duck...

... duck...

... .... duck...

duck...

GOOSE!

Dingo?

CLONE IT! feed the neighborhood. First feed it one of the neighbors.

N-Word Jim,

A cry in the dark.

Hell, that monster's got nothing on this. Oooooooh yeah...

I was prepared for the "see, if giant geese can be found in Australia, then surely there can be bigfoot/UFO Base/Secret Government Installation" posts, but when I read the article, I see it's just fossils. Not exactly a coelacanth.

jcarlyle:
"The reporter that wrote this story is worthless. The most obvious question that arises about the discovery is, "why are these birds considered geese?" Is that question answered? No."

There are very few answers in that field. Animals are classified according to appearances, sometimes very esoteric details. For instance, the only relative to the elephant is a mouse, based on similarities of the foot structure. Some classifications make even less sense!

random_fool the source of the quote is from an actual event, which begat a movie, which begat a line in a sitcom.

In 1980 a family were camping at Ayres Rock, their baby was asleep in a tent and a dingo dragged it off and munched it. The mother was accused of murder and it took years for her to clear her name.

Chasing these things would be so much more fun than chasing around bush turkeys.

leathermidget
For some reason, I read that as "Giant Cheese". I should not be working today.
You're not the only one mate.

7' tall carniverous duck remains have been found all over the place. Koala's and shiat all used to be 4 or 5 times their current size - Kangaroo's were monsterous.

Australia's a farked up country for wildlife. the 11 most venemous snakes onthe planet, something like 60% of spider species in the world etc.

There was a special on the Discovery Channel about prehistoric animals our ancestors encounted. The bird in the CNN article looks awfully like the Moa, which was a HUGE farkin bird that lived in New Zealand. According to the documentary, these birds only went extinct about *700* years ago.

Murray said the latest archeological dig at the site had revealed larger numbers of the smaller species of birds, but they had yet to find a skull.

No heads? I reckon those birds were dressed and ready for the table. They're digging up a prehistoric supermarket!

Wheres a picture of Veruca Salt? I was hoping to see her first of all things. :)

From the headline, I was under the impression these beasties were still alive and well, not extinct.

I must've stayed up too late last night. I read that headline three times trying to figure out how a chunk of giant CHEESE ended up in the Outback(!)

Before clicking the link, I was trying to figure it out. Did an "artiste" drag it out there to make a social commentary? Or is cheese like mushrooms and can grow, fungus-like, in the wilds? Yes, that second thought actually went through my head. And yes, I pictured a giant squishy cheese growing on the underside of rocks....

No more drugs. Heh.

Was I the only one that thought they found a gaggle of LIVE large geese and not REMAINS of one?

/TGIF

OH DAMN it all...

Whark!

That's a honking big bird!

I quite like the way he's tried to make 500kg sound like 'more than half a ton'.

yah know how in Manifold: Space. the gaijin bring back all these old animal spieces, and its like the giant kangaroos and such. THATS WHAT I THOUGHT OF!!!


/nerd

In a related story a dog digs up some bones.

/thrilled

They're still around- they're called Swans. once we went
to a winery in Cave Junction,Oregon, and this giant brown
swan (protecting its young at the time) chased both of us
back to the car. then it attacked the car.had to have been
at least three feet tall with a six or seven foot wingspan.

we had geese at our college, which lived in a pond by
the dorms, and loved attacking anyone and everyone as they
went by. the solution? brave a goose nip or two, position
your foot under its breast, and slo-mo punt the offending
fowl back into its pond. they wound up dying en masse when
they sprayed the grass with insecticide.

So I assume the call of these things was something like, "SQUAWK! Damnit!!!"

--h

Temple-ar
I quite like the way he's tried to make 500kg sound like 'more than half a ton'.

AFAIK 500 Kilos is one tonne (new school) which is more than a ton (old school).


PM Of Montreal
yah know how in Manifold: Space. the gaijin bring back all these old animal spieces, and its like the giant kangaroos and such. THATS WHAT I THOUGHT OF!!!
/nerd

Too many Malenfant(sp?) adventures for you sonny jim. ;)

1000kg's = 2200 lbs = 1 ton (new skool)
909.09kgs's = 2000 lbs = 1 tonne (old school)

500kgs > 1/2 tonne (old school), exactly 1/2 ton (new skool)

that's one scary goose story.