why is life so unfair that they don't exist?

(and can we eat them?)

actual question: which is yr favourite?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

great big asteroids to thread

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

level 9 small blue dragon with lightning breath. how many spells could they have though? tiamat was just way too elaborate

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

What about that awful/phenomenal film with Sean Connery as the dragon and Dennis Quaid having to pretend to slay him over and over so that the wicked king who is the bloke out of "Naked" will keep paying him? It was On The Telly over t'August Bank Holiday, unless I was imagining it.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

and also all over dance kids nicely-ironed shirts about 4 years ago.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.filmplay.com/images/spiritedaway/ lp_spiritedaway03.jpg

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

My pictures never work. :-(

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

you added a space in there...

http://www.filmplay.com/images/spiritedaway/lp_spiritedaway03.jpg

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

(it was v big as well, so didn't add "i" in front to embed image. that's my story and i'm sticking to it)

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

This is why I am written off as an airhead (rightfully so).

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

wahoo! another excuse to draw someting with triangular eyes!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you see Reign of Fire Mark?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

not yet jel

http://www.foxprints.com/candy/misc/dragonthingy.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw one of these with my own eyes at the weekend:
http://little-raven.com/images/RS/MS/realeafy2.JPG
How mad are they?

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ananova.com/images/web/29587.jpg

(simeon,that's-wild!what's_its_name?)

― minna (minna), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

that's a leafy sea dragon isn't it? They're hella cool. Kind of like Seahorses.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

And they give birth to swimming horses. *hides*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a movie where Dragons do exist in the cinema right now...I'm gonna watch it (hopefully) tomorrow. if you go you migth wish they nevah existed.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

OK. maybe baby dragons. but they grow.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes - a leafy sea dragon. Wonder why they called it that :)
Seriously astounding creature, lives in leafy seaweed that is virtually indistinguishable from it until it moves.

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

So is THIS the key to Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo ?

― Ray M (rdmanston), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

CURSE YOU NED RAGGETT FOR STEALING MY LINE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Until they switched the show recently, one of the things in the Japanese gallery at the British Museum was a stunning little (maybe 9" long) 200 year old metal dragon, with (as far as I could tell from the text and looking - they didn't let you play with it) every vertebrae in its spine moveable, as well as the limbs and head and maybe jaw. Beautiful.

On the other hand, destroy Anne McCaffrey, obv.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i like dragons but they always seemed like someone trying to one-up dinosaurs. they're giant saurian kind of things, but unlike dinosaurs, these dragon can FLY and BREATHE FIRE and are NOBLE/DIABOLICAL. sure, they sound great, but they've got a ninja turtle feel to them. as if regular ninjas weren't good enough

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

But the concept of dragons PREDATES that of dinosaurs, surely! By many centuries!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, but the reality of dinosaurs predates that of dragons!

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(plus the author is dead)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

anyway, the story of dinosaurs is a good one. they were very much like humans and had names that were very much like our names for them, or perhaps more "original culture" names that described how they looked, or a funny way in which they behaved or moved. and the herbivores were generally kind and voted democrat

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

dinasaurs on their own thread please: dragontalk ONLY!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

fine. where do dragonbabies (technical term?) come from? eggs? volcanoes? forged out of the mountain by gods as pets? from the inside of stars?

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

they've got a ninja turtle feel to them. as if regular ninjas weren't good enough

They weren't! And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the best thing EVAH in my childhood. Thrilling, funny and EDUCATIONAL- The Turtles taught my generation that making sarcrastic remarks is so much cooler than just beating your opponents up.

Uh, yeah, dragons. TMNT had an episode with one in it- the first appearence of Usagi Yojimbo on there, too, if I remember correctly.

mark s, what's yr take on "Puff The Magic Dragon"?

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

when v.small i wz annoyed that i didn't find out more abt puff in the song itself, and was not pointed in the right direction

so dud

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

my oldest friend was in a punk band called The Android Pups in 1977 who did a cover of Puff The Magic Dragon - it was one of their most popular numbers, to the extent that anything they played was popular - NME or MM called them the worst band in the country. Perhaps you'd think differently if you had heard them do it, though probably not.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

only if they included more abt puff

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.supersnail.com/quick/img_bm2k_2/2__bm2k_d1_r06_03a_juaxss.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

No, they seemed to possess no further information on Puff, I'm afraid.

Good grief: I've always thought extensive tattooing was a lot of pain to put yourself through, but having your head lopped off is going a bit far.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.supersnail.com/quick/img_bm2k_2/2__bm2k_d1_r07_01_juaxss.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Puff's scales fell off when he was sad. i used to think that was pretty creepy, though not half as creepy as (what i understood phonetically as) the mysterious "ceiling wax" the boy Paper brought him.

i noticed you mention Rackham some time back, mark - what do you think of his dragons? (i reckon they're too small)

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/images/ardragon.jpg

― the actual mr. jones (actual), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mtv.com/news/images/archive/Sisqo/sq-sisqo-holding-wrist-def.gif

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Proof that there are gay dragons.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

CURSE YOU NED RAGGETT FOR STEALING MY LINE.

I know what I'm doing.

On the other hand, destroy Anne McCaffrey, obv.

Eh? I like the Pern books, dammit. At the very least the original stories.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i want to squeeze that little pimple on her arm

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

So is THIS the key to Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo ?

http://www.jlaustin.org/cookbooks/img/spinach.GIF
Nope. This is the key.

And so is this.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

couldn't draw dragons, they looked too camp.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Camp dragons = classic, though...

― Rebecca (reb), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

do you see?

http://home.graffiti.net/buglebear/rah.gif

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's kind of a moomin/dragon hybrid.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i like its loafers

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

all the cool dragons wear loafers.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

The Ultama Dragons song crashed my computer..

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

That's a big problem with Ultima fan sites--everyone loves the music, so everyone has it playing on their pages.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I once published a review of a McCaffrey dragon novel in a mag I edited written by someone who clearly hadn't bothered to read it. Turns out that he opened it at random and read a spread, and multiplied up - so he claimed that the book had 800 unnecessary commas, for instance.

I thought the first story was okay when I first read it in my teens. She is a dreadful writer though - not Asimov-bad prose, but getting there.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

close enough:

http://www.cmsmith99.freeserve.co.uk/editimages/bendy1.jpg

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Thursday, 26 September 2002 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

http://greywolf.critter.net/images/gallery/animation/dragon-anim-right.gif

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 20 October 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have only just seen jel's camp dragon, which is indeed classic, and pleasingly gerund-like (cheers cheers!).

― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 20 October 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

look at my evil man eating bird on the It will devour us all thread!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 20 October 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

(gabe's cat photo also looks like my cat but with added stripes, so also classic)
(I wonder what percentage of my posts mention cats. k-ph34r...)

― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 20 October 2002 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)