capfalc:

Can you believe that this is the first FinnRey fanart I’ve ever drawn?

(The original comic is right here!)


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#Star Wars #The Force Awakens #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #see also Catching Fire #(oh btw I’ve actually seen The Force Awakens now) #(Mom rented it to watch on Mother’s Day) #(bringing the number of Star Wars movies I have seen in their entirety up to two)

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #now available in quarantined format for your convenience #the more you know

anarcho-shindouism:

shazzbaa:

last night I was thinking about bees and how dumb it is that science hasn’t given us genetically modified pet bees yet

if you’re reading this, science, this is how big I want them to be

@fullbeecommunismnow


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#bees #bugs #adorable #art #awww #(…does that bee have eight legs?) #(maybe it’s just a side effect of the mad science) #((oh wait I think the top leg is coming from the right side)) #((so there are only three pairs)) #((okay then))

mezzotessitura:

I was looking up the possibility of getting a Janeway figure for my adventuresoftheminis blog and looked on Amazon but

Is this a joke


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#Star Trek #Voyager #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #there’s coffee in that nebula! #(I note that when I type ”there’s coffee”) #(Tumblr’s ”popular tags” suggests I finish with ”in that nebula”) #it took me a moment to get the joke but it eventually clicked

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angels-are-watching:

Can we please talk about how our history teacher sent a barbie to the smithsonian as proof of the presence of man two million years ago

 

bonequeer:

pleas,e for the love of God read the whole letter, there are tears streamign down my face rn

 

derinthemadscientist:

Can we please talk about how your history teacher has done this sort of thing enough times that he has his own specimen shelf in the Smithsonian

 

theverysarcasticscientist:

“yours in science” tho

 

sinesalvatorem:

“B. Clams don’t have teeth” is the part where I lost it.

 

stimmyabby:

@zozi-writes

 

coffiend-jackalope:

The letter says:

“Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled “211-D, layer seven, next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull.” We have gien this specimen a careful and detailed examination and regret to inform you that we disagree with you theory that it represents ‘conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Charleston County two million years ago.’ Rather, it appears that what you have found is the head of a Barbie doll, of the variety one of our staff, who has small children, believes to be the ‘Malibu Barbie’. It is evident that you have given a great deal of thought to the analysis of this specimen, and you may be quite certain that those of us who are familiar with your prior work in the field were loathe to come to contradiction with your findings. However, we do feel that there are a number of physical attributes of the specimen which might have tipped you off to it’s modern origin:

  1. The material is molded plastic. Ancient hominid remains are typically fossilized bone.
  2. The cranial capacity of the specimen is approximately 9 cubic centimeters, well below the threshold of even the earliest identified proto-hominids.
  3. The dentition patters evident on the ‘skull’ is more consistent with the common domesticated dog than it is with the ‘ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams’ you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time.This latter finding is certainly one of the most intriguing hypotheses you have submitted in your history with this institution, but the evidence seems to weigh rather heavily against it. Without going into too much detail, let us say that:
  • A) The specimen looks like the head of a Barbie doll that a dog has chewed on.
  • Clams don’t have teeth.

It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must deny your request to have the specimen carbon dated. This is partially due to the heavy load our lab must bear in it’s normal operation, and partly due to carbon dating’s notorious inaccuracy in fossils of recent geologic record. To the best of our knowledge, no Barbie dolls were produced prior to 1956 AD, and carbon dating is likely to produce wildly inaccurate results. Sadly , we must also deny your request that we approach the National Science Foundation’s Phylogeny Department with the concept of assigning your specimen the scientific name ‘Australopithecus spiff-arino.’ Speaking personally, I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.

However, we gladly accept your generous donation of this fascinating specimen to the museum. While it is undoubtedly not a hominid fossil, it is, nonetheless, yet another riveting example of the great body of work you seem to accumulate here so effortlessly. You should know that our Director has reserved a special shelf in his own office for the display of the specimens you have previously submitted to the Institution, and the entire staff speculates daily on what you will happen upon next in your digs at the site you have discovered in your back yard. We eagerly anticipate your trip to or nation’s capital that you proposed in you last letter, and several of us are pressing the Director to pay for it. We are particularly interested in hearing you expand on your theories surrounding the ‘trans-positating fillifitation of ferrous ions in a structural matrix’ that makes the excellent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex femur you recently discovered take on the deceptive appearance of a rusty 9-mm Sears Craftsman automotive crescent wrench.

Yours in Science,

Harvey Rowe

Curator, Antiquities”

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(sorry if there are misspellings or wrong wordings. this was long and i was reading it off my phone)

 

logic-and-art:

“I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.“

 

moonlitmoor:

@glumshoe

 

smithsonian:

We give a lot of credit to whoever wrote this, but we can say with certainty that we haven’t been given any Barbie doll heads for our paleoanthropology department. (@amhistorymuseum​ does have plenty of Barbies, all with bodies too.)

But we have been offered some interesting things over the years. A few examples: a corn flake in the shape of Illinois, a two-legged dog, and the world’s longest beard.

We took the beard.

Yours in science,

The Smithsonian


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#can’t say I’m surprised #but then this was never really about the literal truth value anyway #you’ve probably seen this before #Tumblr traditions #(pre-Tumblr traditions too) #(I looked it up and apparently this letter dates back to 1994) #oh look an update

ray-winters-sings:

That’s it. This is the funniest yak I’ve ever seen. The rest of you may go home.


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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(for my fellow Canadians: DiGiorno is American for Delissio) #(for those of you who are neither American nor Canadian: this joke depends on having seen an ad for a particular brand of frozen pizza) #(so it might not make much sense to you) #(maybe you can catch the next joke)


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