What killed the dinosaurs?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: What killed the dinosaurs?

Or rather, what killed the dinosaurs, pterosaurs and whatever the hell kind of -saurs swam in the oceans but didn't kill the crocodilians? If you have an intelligent response, kindly put it in the form of a reply as you're unlikely to find anything intelligent in the responses I've composed below.:P

[Elidor]

1. Bad table manners

After a while, nobody would eat with them anymore, and they starved.

(I stole that from somebody, but I don't recall who.)

[unsavedtrash]

2. smoking

:hide:

[ironflange]

23. Like this?

One of my favorites. Someone has done a more realistic version:

[Rhiannon12866]

41. Priceless!!!

:rofl:

[gr8dane_daddy]

3. Neo-Conservatism.

It's killing us! }(

[tjwmason]

11. They were developing W.M.D.

and I've got an out-of-date doctoral thesis pulled off the internets, which I've sexed-up a bit, to prove it too. :eyes:

[electricmonk]

4. Either kudzu or

the Olive Garden. The science is still a little fuzzy.

[hfojvt]

47. are you sure it wasn't

pit bulls?

[Common Sense Party]

5. Karl Rove

and the dastardly BFEE.

LIHOP or MIHOP, I'm not sure.

[idgiehkt]

32. there you go

:rofl:

[Random_Australian]

6. Me. I ate them. So what - I was feeling peckish ok!

[bonito]

7. They just decided to go into oil

:shrug:

[yellowdogintexas]

66. oh that is so bad....nt

[Lilith Velkor]

8. Porn

They were too busy yankin' it to "Barely Evolved" to procreate.

[pinniped]

9. Cavemen, cavewomen, and cavekids.

.

[sarge43]

10. Junk food

Small mammals were too high in fats and refined sugar.

[Bassic]

12. I read on some other site that everyting bad is

Bill Clinton's fault. This is so sipmle, it'as gota be true, right?

[Kutjara]

13. Nothing.

They faked their own deaths and got off this smelly rock when they saw things were turning bad, climate-wise. One day, if humanity is lucky enough, we'll encounter the dinosaurs again...OUT THERE.

They will no doubt take one look at us and say, "Fucking great. Mammals."

[mainegreen]

14. Colonel Mustard, in the parlor, with the Deccan Traps?

:rofl:
That's great!

[Bossy Monkey]

33. Thanks very much! n/t

[underpants]

15. There was one?

I had to answer Pudding :rofl:

[Mutley]

16. The Clenis

Hasn't it already been established that Clinton's penis is the cause of Everything?

[NewWaveChick1981]

26. GMTA....see my post below...

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Orsino]

17. It was the network of gay staffers on Capitol Hill. n/t

[Haole Girl]

18. Probably lack of food due to something....

...cimate change, possible. Just a guess....I really didn't like it, in school, when they threw out the meteorite theory. I mean, fine, but where is the huge crater this would have caused...and, furthermore, why didn't everything die off? :shrug:

[Bossy Monkey]

34. In the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan peninsula

Also, per Wikiville there's another one from the right time in the Indian Ocean west of India. Some people think that one triggered the eruptions that formed the Deccan Traps, another possible trigger. I'm with you in being bewildered as to why only the great big dinosaury things died out but so many others didn't. The likelihood is that some of the dinosaurs didn't die out but evolved into birds, presumably in regions such as the tropics where the climate change or reduction in available food or whatever it was wasn't so extreme. Either that or it was the pudding.:)

[skygazer]

19. Stress

It's not as easy as it seems being a dinasaur.

[hunter]

20. Teleportation.

One of the social predators evolved the ability of teleportation. These predators ate most everything but small mammals living in underground burrows and dinosaurs that could fly. A few reptilian species evolved a short range ability to deflect this specific form of teleportation and thus survived extinction.

Eventually these teleporting dinosaurs achieved the ability to transport themselves across galactic distances and were declared a nuisance species by the Galactic Federation and exterminated. Human beings are on the watch list for possible extermination should we develop similar abilities. Historically planetary ecologies that evolve teleportation once are very likely to evolve it again.

[BarenakedLady]

21. I did

And I feel rather badly about it.

[wildhorses]

22. the gods wanted ice in their tea and so came the ice age

:yoiks:

[TheBaldyMan]

24. they became the Republican Party

Pea-size brain, think with their butt and take ages to adapt to new situations.

Vote small & furry on Nov 7th.

[NewWaveChick1981]

25. I thought Bill Clinton killed the dinosaurs.

:shrug: 'Pukes say that all the time...

[Left Is Write]

27. My son thinks he knows where they went.

We had this conversation last week while he was eating dinosaur-shaped crackers and thus had dinosaurs on his mind:

Mom," he asked, "Are dinosaurs in town?"

"No. Dinosaurs are all gone."

"Where'd they go? Florida?"

[dolo amber]

30. "Just the Jewish ones, sweetie"

:rofl:

[maveric]

28. Gays, Feminists and Latte Liberals.

And just think, Jesus loved those creatures too.

[regularguy]

29. Ran 'em down with their Volvos, I heard.....

[maveric]

31. And stomped them with their Birkenstocks after forcing them to have abortions.

Thats what I heard.

[otherlander]

35. Some people would tell you it was a single meteor...

but if you look at the impact mark left by this supposed meteor, it becomes obvious that this story isn't true. For something to create such a crater, it would have had to be coming from the completely opposite direction as this meteor would have struck from. There was a caveman shortly after the incident who was doing an investigation into this, but he was found dead the next day. The truth is out there, but they're hiding it. It's the only explanation for the fact that, to this day, the photographs of the original meteor still haven't been released.

And yes, I know I'm going to hell for this.

[MrCoffee]

36. i'm so tired of you "Single Meteor" shills...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

that is dy-no-MITE!!! well done!

[KamaAina]

54. At last! The "Magic Meteor" theory is debunked!

:tinfoilhat:

edit: header

[Downtown Hound]

37. Bush

They had oil in their bodies, and he wanted it.

[Crabby Appleton]

38. Other - second hand smoke nt

[NJ Democrats]

39. Didn't you know?

It's all Clinton's fault.

[sarge43]

40. Yes, but which Clinton? n/t

[El Fuego]

42. The dinosaurs are STILL HERE.

They're just a little smaller these days:

[Bossy Monkey]

43. Perhaps you'd like to vote for choice 4 on the poll then

since it's still shut out.:)

[El Fuego]

46. OK I voted! Because it's my civic duty to vote in dinosaur polls.

[two gun sid]

44. Pit Bulls.

[hfojvt]

48. the Brazillian joke

they heard it and they all died laughing.

[two gun sid]

53. They all moved to Chicago and, well,...

we all know what Chicago is like.


*disclaimer* This is a joke. I love Chicago and the people of Chicago.

[LeftyMom]

59. At least they can still vote Democratic.

:D

[Blue_Tires]

45. me touching myself at night!

:silly:

[Deep13]

49. Aggressive driving.

:-(

[The Sushi Bandit]

50. Hydrogen Sulfide eruptions from the ocean bed

causing a run-away greenhouse effect with ozone depletion combined with rapid polarity flipping of the magnetic pole..

or... tooth decay

[Random_Australian]

61. Ozone depletion? Goodness gracious, how could H2S catalyse such

a thing!

Unless it was released in stiochiometric quantities, of course.... :scared:

And what's with the pole flipping thing? I mean, if it was as weak as it is when it flips, it should have freak-all effect, right?

[The Sushi Bandit]

63. A new model for mass extinctions...

1. widespread volcanic activity (like the siberian traps) released CO2 and Methane.
2. gas causes global warming
3. warmer ocean absorbs less Oxygen from atmosphere
4. low oxygen destabilizes the chemo-cline, the division of where oxygenated (normal)water meets water permeated with H2S generated by bottom dwelling anaerobic bacteria
5. as H2S concentrations rise the chemo-cline rises to the ocean surface
6. Oxygen breathing ocean life suffocates
7. H2S diffuses into the air killing animals and plants on land
8. H2S rises to the troposphere and attacks Ozone layer
9. UV levels rise dramatically killing remaining life

As for the flipping of the magnetic field..

during the change of polarity the magnetosphere is greatly weakened. This lets in large amounts of charged solar wind particles directly to the surface of earth..

I would not want to be on earth while this is happening!

[Pavulon]

51. Second hand smoke...

[cemaphonic]

52. No Chuck Norris option?

So it's a bit tired - Still funny.

[KamaAina]

55. Barbara Bush hunted them all down with her slingshot

(that was even before the bow and arrow), then said, "This is working out rather nicely for them, isn't it?"

[TheCentepedeShoes]

56. My historical geology prof

in college. He made the class so dull they died of boredom.

[Fox Mulder]

57. I liked my historical geology professor.

He made the class fun and interesting. He was funny as hell too.

[yellowdogintexas]

67. Oh, you went to Kentucky Wesleyan too? nt

[rug]

58. Al Qaeda. It's been a long, long war.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

60. Unwillingness to evolve.

Of course, some of them did evolve; but they are no longer dinosaurs.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

62. Before I even opened the thread, I thought "Bill Clinton"

[Generator]

64. Cheney

Oh yes, his evil highness has been around a long long time-in many forms.

(shame on you that thought Clinton, if you don't know evil, you don't know dick :)

[ncrainbowgrrl]

65. video killed the radio star- which killed the dinosaur.

:evilgrin:

[spindrifter]

68. Ch*ney did it!