Cos there’s a lot of them? I guess the wordplay’s okay, but just barely.
I thought “plethora” worked pretty well as a “sauropod” descriptor, but the thing that puzzled me was why a family of herbivores would pick an apparent tyranosaur as photographer.
“Can you all just lean in a bit?!”
I thought is was just that the can’t all fit in due to their long necks.
But now I think it is wordplay except…
…. but…. there’s no such thing a plethorasaur…
Or… is that the joke? Like, the caveman saying about a dinosaur “That must be a Thesaurus” which made my sister burst out laughing but was (and still is) incomprehensible to me.
I thought maybe they were all TOO CLOSELY related ’cause they all looked the same, except for the variation in the color green. I missed the ‘pletherora’saurus part. Or, they all came out of the same Mold-A-Rama.
@ woozy – In Harvard Lampoon’s parody “Bored of the Rings“, the monster that attacks at the entrance to the mines is called “Thesaurus”, and rattles off synonyms for “delectable” and “food” as it gobbles down the party’s wooly steeds.
P.S. Yes, that is all of the joke that there is in this comic: plethorasaurii are always found in monstrous groups.
Hes got the little arms to work the camera.
I thought it was that they can all fit in because of their long necks. Normally in a big group it’s hard to get everyone in the picture, but for these guys, it’s easy.
It would be a pun if there were a dinosaur called “plethorasaurus,” or at least one with a name that sounds like that. As it is, there’s no double meaning. I don’t think it can be a true pun with just a single meaning.
Funny to see the camera (on a tripod, no less) has an old-fashioned manual shutter release cable. What a “dinosaur” of a camera.
I wish my digital camera had a manual shutter release socket. (Through an adapter I can use my old 35mm-camera lenses, however).
Our plethorasaurus friends here could have had some fun during the photo had they been using the right kind of camera:
In the days of film photographing large gatherings often involved the use of mechanically-driven panoramic cameras (i.e. “Cirkut”), and the mechanism moved slowly enough for some pranksters to run from the end the frame to the other and be immortalized twice. Apparently that’s now known as the “pizza run”.
Mark has the pun. I thought it was funny. True, Plesiosaurs are aquatic, but it was close enough to make me laugh. (And I’m pretty sure there’s a Thesaurus in Xanth, as well. If not, he’d certainly fit in.)
Grawlix – My dad was in WW2 (well,sort of – he was in a brain trust like program and after training in the south lived at home while attending and they sent him to Fordham U, and then the war ended before his training did) and while he was in basic training and had a photo of the unit taken with the rolling camera that made a panoramic photo of the entire unit – and he showed us the 2 guys who were at the start and ran and were in the end again. I can see the photo now.
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Cos there’s a lot of them? I guess the wordplay’s okay, but just barely.
I thought “plethora” worked pretty well as a “sauropod” descriptor, but the thing that puzzled me was why a family of herbivores would pick an apparent tyranosaur as photographer.
“Can you all just lean in a bit?!”
I thought is was just that the can’t all fit in due to their long necks.
But now I think it is wordplay except…
…. but…. there’s no such thing a plethorasaur…
Or… is that the joke? Like, the caveman saying about a dinosaur “That must be a Thesaurus” which made my sister burst out laughing but was (and still is) incomprehensible to me.
I thought maybe they were all TOO CLOSELY related ’cause they all looked the same, except for the variation in the color green. I missed the ‘pletherora’saurus part. Or, they all came out of the same Mold-A-Rama.
@ woozy – In Harvard Lampoon’s parody “Bored of the Rings“, the monster that attacks at the entrance to the mines is called “Thesaurus”, and rattles off synonyms for “delectable” and “food” as it gobbles down the party’s wooly steeds.
P.S. Yes, that is all of the joke that there is in this comic: plethorasaurii are always found in monstrous groups.
Hes got the little arms to work the camera.
I thought it was that they can all fit in because of their long necks. Normally in a big group it’s hard to get everyone in the picture, but for these guys, it’s easy.
It would be a pun if there were a dinosaur called “plethorasaurus,” or at least one with a name that sounds like that. As it is, there’s no double meaning. I don’t think it can be a true pun with just a single meaning.
Funny to see the camera (on a tripod, no less) has an old-fashioned manual shutter release cable. What a “dinosaur” of a camera.
I wish my digital camera had a manual shutter release socket. (Through an adapter I can use my old 35mm-camera lenses, however).
Our plethorasaurus friends here could have had some fun during the photo had they been using the right kind of camera:
In the days of film photographing large gatherings often involved the use of mechanically-driven panoramic cameras (i.e. “Cirkut”), and the mechanism moved slowly enough for some pranksters to run from the end the frame to the other and be immortalized twice. Apparently that’s now known as the “pizza run”.
There is a Plesiosaurus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiosaurus So that must be the pun.
Mark has the pun. I thought it was funny. True, Plesiosaurs are aquatic, but it was close enough to make me laugh. (And I’m pretty sure there’s a Thesaurus in Xanth, as well. If not, he’d certainly fit in.)
Grawlix – My dad was in WW2 (well,sort of – he was in a brain trust like program and after training in the south lived at home while attending and they sent him to Fordham U, and then the war ended before his training did) and while he was in basic training and had a photo of the unit taken with the rolling camera that made a panoramic photo of the entire unit – and he showed us the 2 guys who were at the start and ran and were in the end again. I can see the photo now.