Dinosaur

[The Thrill]

I was surprised that the unit of 'feet' was used, given that LRR's in the Land of Metric.

Though Canada is officially a metric country, imperial measures are often used. In construction everything is in imperial. You are far more likely to say that I am six foot one than say that your are 1.85 m. The dinosaur book could have been American but the newscast would have likely used metric.

I don't know about other parts of the country but in Kingston (in between Toronto and Ottawa) we use imperial for height, length and weight (feet, inches and pounds) but for distances and measuring liquids we use metric (km, cups, litres).

I'd like to note that in my experience metric is just about useless for tradespeople. It's so much easier to go by 1/16ths in inches instead of millimeters (or is it millimetres? I can never remember because some are one way and some are the other), and in my high school shop classes we used imperial measurements all but exclusively.

[JesterJ.]

millimeters

[The Happy Friar]

i'm the only geek who thought Paul looked like King Koopa from the Super Mario Bros movie?

[Lord Chrusher]

Either meter or metre is correct although meter is far more common in Canada.
Adding 17 mm to 23.6 cm is easier than adding 11/16'' to 9 9/32 ''.

[The Happy Friar]

Either meter or metre is correct although meter is far more common in Canada.
Adding 17 mm to 23.6 cm is easier than adding 11/16'' to 9 9/32 ''.

11/16+9 9/32 = 22/32 + 9 9/32 = 9 31/32

17mm + 23.6cm = 1.7cm + 23.6cm = 25.3cm

same # of steps for each. I find the fractions easer myself, but I'm so used to it i find it no big deal. Still gotta convert things though.

in schools in Canada they don't tell you to use metre vs meter? In the Us we're always told to use "armor" vs "armour", etc. (I prefer "armour", go figure!).

[NecroVale]

When I heard Paul say that he was a dinosaur, I had to go back and listen again to make sure I heard right. It was hillarious seeing Paul's picture under T-Rex.

[Lavos]

I was waiting for graham to say you are a retard the WHOLE TIME.

[Tapir12]

Ya, I kept expecting a different ending too. I thought Paul was going to pull out a birthday card which said he was now a dinosaur. Haha

But I think the fact that Graham took him so seriously was great, and the illustartions were awesome!!! And yes, the cop and detective in the background was the icing on the dino cake

[umbrellaless]

I'm left with so many question! Like, how did Paul become a dinosaur? Was he something before, or was he just born? If a T-Rex looks like Paul, then what does the dinosaur that used to be a T-Rex look like?!

[zombine]

I didn't even know that there were zombie dinosaurs. Did paul escape from Jurassic park?
Did someone leave my cake out in the rain while all the dinosaurs were running wild?

[eiopqrtuwy]

I'm not done watching it yet, I just thought to comment that I find it pretty funny that I can see Graham's reflection in the mirror when he supposedly went to look for dino food in the back.

Actually it was done just the way you would expect: there wasnt't actually a time lapse. In the reflections you can see Neil starting at the counter and walking towards the back about 10 steps before he pauses, realizes that dinosaur food is too broad of a search term, and then walks back to ask Paul.

I enjoyed the video, it was pretty funny.

And The dinosaur pages actualy had valid dinosaur information, impressive but that also means the T-rex page didnt actually describe Paul at all like Neil said it did. "(14-16.6ft) tail", oh well.

[Graham]

In the reflections you can see Neil starting at the counter and walking towards the back about 10 steps before he pauses, realizes that dinosaur food is too broad of a search term, and then walks back to ask Paul.

Yes, good. Go with that.

[anotherearth]

Great video!

(Graham, for the love of God -please practice screaming!)

[Tiger1313]

Very nice. I have no idea how Paul came up with this idea but it worked on so many levels.

I was expecting Paul to start shaking hands with Graham to thank him and then bite him not lunge over the counter.

The reason Steve Clark wasn't the reporter was because he was suspended for swearing on air so he had to be replaced. If the news would then have gone back to Hal Johnson with Paul wearing the same suit looking nervous it also would have been awesome.

[Matt]

in schools in Canada they don't tell you to use metre vs meter? In the Us we're always told to use "armor" vs "armour", etc. (I prefer "armour", go figure!).

lol, they say that because American English makes a point of spelling things the non-British (aka. the wrong) way. in Canada we speak and write in standard English, so we are actually taught the correct spellings (metre, litre, armour, etc.) but since we deal with americans far more often than people of other english speaking nationalities, and our word processors come from the states, most teachers typically let the american spellings (liter, meter, armor) fly. but aside from the states, every other english speaking nation on the planet spells things our way :p

11/16+9 9/32 = 22/32 + 9 9/32 = 9 31/32

17mm + 23.6cm = 1.7cm + 23.6cm = 25.3cm

same # of steps for each. I find the fractions easer myself, but I'm so used to it i find it no big deal. Still gotta convert things though.

if you hadn't learned on the fractions, you probably wouldn't find them easier to do. base 10 decimal calculations are far more efficient, simply because converting them requires no changes to the numbers themselves; which makes it faster and easier to do the calculations in your head. I'd put forward that most anyone trained on the decimals could do that calculation without even consciously making the conversion, which you couldn't do with the fractions.

but for distances and measuring liquids we use metric (km, cups, litres).

cups is an imperial measure, not a metric one. we only use the term as short hand, because one cup happens to correspond to 250mL.

-m

[Lord Chrusher]

I don't know about other parts of the country but in Kingston (in between Toronto and Ottawa) we use imperial for height, length and weight (feet, inches and pounds) but for distances and measuring liquids we use metric (km, cups, litres).

That is really smart. Use different units to measure the same dimension - height, length and distance are all the same and should be measured in meters.

I have to deal with everything every thing from ångströms (10^-10m) to parsecs (3.09*10^16m), electron volts (1.78*10-36kg) to solar masses (1.98*10^30kg) in physics and astronomy

[protospasm]

Were I to find out I were a dinosaur, I'd not only eat Graham but get a puppy to go... late night snack and all. Anyways, great work! I've been watching this site for awhile now, and only now did the subject of cannibalism lure me out (well, actually no - dinosaur and human are different I guess).

-edit: Upon rewatch, I conclude there are no puppies to be found in the store; therefore Paul MUST eat Graham with no to go order; my apologies for the presumption.

[Tensen01]

Was "Neil" a reference to "Dinosaur Neil" from The Tick?

And Graham, I would totally love a copy of the book cover

[TheRocket]

I love dinosaurs!!!

HURRAY for this video!!!

[dark_realm]

Great video guys, the tie in from rapid fire made this video awesome!
i have 2 questions though:

1. Paul did you get a new suit?

2. How did you get this location?

[owl+ bungee cord= my arse]

So he's only been a dinosaur for a few days yet he's fully grown. When will those crazy scientist's learn that only Santa can play god without it backfiring. Did they not see jurassic park or any other movie where scientist's play god? No matter what safety precautions they use all of them fail at the same time and someone dies.

Another thing if he's fully grown in a few days would that mean he'll die of old age in a few more days?

[Melendwyr]

Very nice. I have no idea how Paul came up with this idea but it worked on so many levels.

Tensen01 wrote this script. We have no idea how he came up with this idea.

[Melendwyr]

lol, they say that because American English makes a point of spelling things the non-British (aka. the wrong) way. in Canada we speak and write in standard English, so we are actually taught the correct spellings (metre, litre, armour, etc.) but since we deal with americans far more often than people of other english speaking nationalities, and our word processors come from the states, most teachers typically let the american spellings (liter, meter, armor) fly. but aside from the states, every other english speaking nation on the planet spells things our way :p

Dude, English's orthography is messed up enough. The American spellings are generally more sensible, and at the very least are phonetic. After all, the word is pronounced 'lee-ter', not 'lee-truh'.

[Matt]

just because the spelling is more sensible, doesn't make it right.

-m

[AmazingPjotrMan]

I'm going to create my completely own spelling and force it on the world,