B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for January 29, 2015

sadly it should be Apatosaurus, a much crappier name.

I knew someone would point out that brontosaurus didn’t exist, apatosaurus misidentified.Thereby killing brontoburgers while nobody seems to want an apatoburger..We see above the benefit of developing trigonometry.

I love the expression on the dinosaur!

Since the animals themselves could not care less, and since the names are artificial anyway, I say we all decide to call them Brontosaurus and dump the apatosaurus name that nobody likes anyway.

I think they should have known to put Grog on the bottom to start with.

Did he just elevate Grog to ‘human’ status?

The T. rex is 5 and 1/2 humans tall.

That’s an Apatosaurus!

Reminds me of " The Twilight Zone " Dolls in a barrel…

I agree, its a brontosaurus.

Let’s agree to call them all dinosaurs. and get on with our lives.

I just like the “WTF? These humans are weird!” expression on its face, whatever you want to call it!

There are two main measuring systems on the planet metric and imperial which is still used in some backwater societies. In spite of this, people insist on coming up non-standard units. Some of them are humorous such as the Smoot which is the height of Oliver R. Smoot and is used to measure the Harvard Bridge (364.4 smoots). Look it up in Wikipedia for more details. The point being that the human body is often used as a non-standard unit of measure.

Other non-standard units are not contested at all such as a football field or Hiroshima-sized bomb.

I am proposing a new unit of measure: the debt-dollar (dd). A dollar is 6 inches long.1 dd = 6 inches or approximately the length of an adult human hand.10 dd = 60 inches or about the size of a 12-year-old child.100 dd = 50 feet or the width of a basketball court.1,000 dd = 500 feet or the distance from home plate to center field in Polo Grounds (longest ever in major league baseball).1,000,000 dd (million) = 189 miles or roughly a round trip from New York to Philadelphia and back.1,000,000,000 dd (billion) = 189,394 miles or 24 round-the-world trips.1,000,000,000,000 dd (trillion) = 2.04 AU (Astronomical Unit – distance from the earth to the sun). This is about as far out as the asteroid belt.18,000,000,000 dd (U.S. National debt) is 36.66 AU which is beyond Neptune and into the Kuiper Belt.

So when someone says the National Debt is astronomical, they are not exaggerating.

I will leave it to some other arithmo-nerd to figure out the speed of the debt-dollar and when it will overtake the voyager spacecraft and when it will exceed the speed of light.

“Godzilla is 1…”“Godzilla is 1…”“Godzilla is 1… Will you please stop eating the measuring units!”

Yes, the real reason dinosaurs went extinct. They were bored to death with stupid humans…

The expression on the “creature” in panel three is there because it just came face to face with Grog. And reading all of today’s comments has given me a headache! Guys, it is only a cartoon!!!!!! Geeezzzzzz!

Flintstones said it was a Bronto,,so Bronto it is!(everything I need to know in life was from cartoons..just kidding)

FROM NPR:“It was in the heat of this competition, in 1877, that Marsh discovered the partial skeleton of a long-necked, long-tailed, leaf-eating dinosaur he dubbed Apatosaurus. It was missing a skull, so in 1883 when Marsh published a reconstruction of his Apatosaurus, Lamanna says he used the head of another dinosaur — thought to be a Camarasaurus — to complete the skeleton..“Two years later,” Lamanna says, “his fossil collectors that were working out West sent him a second skeleton that he thought belonged to a different dinosaur that he named Brontosaurus.”.But it wasn’t a different dinosaur. It was simply a more complete Apatosaurus — one that Marsh, in his rush to one-up Cope, carelessly and quickly mistook for something new..Although the mistake was spotted by scientists by 1903, the Brontosaurus lived on, in movies, books and children’s imaginations."

It doesn’t matter dinosaurs were long extinct before the first humanoids even appeared or decided what to call them.

Yes, we know modern humans came long after dinosaurs left the planet! Good grief, everyone knows it was bigfoot that hung around with the dinos….Sheesh, do I have to explain everything!