This, from The Poke (via Matthew Cobb) is said to be from Harvard’s Museum of Natural History. Of course I am investigating the backstory, and will report when I find out.
Could it have been this one?
Museum sign of the week
January 11, 2013 • 1:59 pm
I’m going to print that sentence and tape it to the back of my chair at work so that it can be seen if I’m not sitting in the chair.
You should shortly be able to buy the t-shirt, courtesy of my daughter, Bethan.
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I knew a Bethan at school once. North Welsh connection?
No; just a name my wife liked. My contribution was “Jade”.
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Actually, based solely on the description, I think it might have been this one.
Cheers,
b&
Fuck yeah, that’s terrifying!!
I tried to think of something worse, but had no luck. Maybe somebody else can do better….
b&
How about this one?
Do those two things represent a single phylum?
Or this!
Just kidding.
Crazy crazy eyes.
I know! What gives with the *clip-on* earrings?! 😛
Well if I had to choose an expression for an exhibit this wouldn’t be the first one to spring to mind nor the one I would finally choose, but it doesn’t look terrifying to me, or improbable either really. Unless he’s meant to be raising his eyes to the heavens in prayer, that would be silly.
It’s a satirical site, kind of like The Onion, so the sign might not be real (awesome if it is, though).
😉
Looks like George Bush!
Or Ken Ham.
He’s saying” “Jesus H. Christ! You’re charging me WHAT for this haircut?!!!”
LOL!
http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/events/2011/9/14/this-object-has-been-removed.html
Here endeth the thread. Good work.
Well, this one was definitely the best sign of the bunch.
Which reminds me of the signs Twycross Zoo put up in April a few years ago. These were in exactly the same format and of the same quality as the ones describing the animals in the compounds, but instead described extinct relatives; e.g., mammoths in the elephant compound. My kids loved it, too.
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In the greenhouse @ Wm&Mary, they predictably had a lot of signs with taxonomic ID’s of the various plants. And then beside an artificial flower someone put up a sign that included Order: Plasticae, Family: Woolworthales… Wish I could remember the rest since Woolworthales probably won’t compute for half of you.
Heh, heh, computes for me, sigh.
But family should be Woolworthaceae,no?
Now were that a picture of a Denisovan that looked like that liar of liars, Duane Gish, why,it would be even more terrifying than I without my dentures!
WEIT, can you provide better pictures of Denisovans, Neandertals and Florensis than I have ever seen of the second, so that we can really tell the difference amongst the first two and us?
Of course, that liar and others don’t accept the evidence from just our own lineage for evolution.
Separated at speciation?
That is Jerry, right?
PDSA, btw, is People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals of the poor. It’s provides charitable care to animals – since they aren’t covered by the NHS.