frilled pope lizard
frilled pope lizard is startled
(Pope Benedict XVI)
picture: dunno source, via our lol builder. lol caption: aminim00se
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I love how this one doesn’t poke fun at anyone but the lizard …
… annnddd also how it diverts attention from the trainwreck of an LOL below …
i actually liked the roshambo lol… made me think about playing beer pong later…
I swear, that man has worse luck with pictures than any other public figure I can think of…
It’s true…he is to photo ops what George W. Bush was to sound bytes!
Oh, that’s a good one! Too early for me to think that fast!
That’s not the pope! It’s Emperor Palpatine in disguise!
It might be time for a “Papal Wardrobe Makeover”…what an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that would make…
As the Inquisition dragged them off squealing…
…nice touch…I was thinking maybe Benedict’d have a stroke when he catches them going through the “Papal Closet” and the skeletons of seven altar boys come falling out…
Stroking which one? We have a different cast in the UK…
Does it matter?! It’d be one of the top-10 TV moments of all time…Could you imagine the “cross”-over endorsement deals from KY alone?!!!!
Is that Kentucky or KY jelly?
““Papal Wardrobe Makeover”…what an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy that would make…”
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Straight guy? Um, sure, why not?
That’s because he’s creepy.
You obviously haven’t seen some of Bush’s many less then stellar moments.
It’s probably not his fault, but all part of the CONSPIRACY.
Ooh, a funny one. Nice.
That is a very disturbing expression. Looks like he might bite if you get too close.
The Pope: the universal punchline.
“Poke at the Pope, that’s what we’re having…”
Personally, I keep hoping someone will update that song for this Darth Bendict.
Search lyrics for Donovan “poke at the pope” if anyone wants to give it a go.
Poor pope ratty… He tries.
To be what? Other than all but reintroducing the ‘reviled Jew’ part of the catechism, he just seems to piss people off…
between the muslims and the jews he has pissed just about everyone off…
but, he used to be in the hitler youth… go figure…
Yes, that among all his other little contributions is why I will always refer to him as pope ratty.
What a ignorant comment. He also QUIT the Hitler youth early, at a time when it was quite dangerous to do so.
Egads, you mean David Icke was right all along?
Does he spit venom like the lizard, too? Or just spew antisemitic remarks?
The venom itself is like alphabet soup, wherein the anti-semitic remarks become attached to the victims face in the form of alpha-bits.
or aleph-bits (ok… bad pun… I’ll fetch me coat…)
What are you zayin?
He’s got his Zion you.
Oooo – I see what jew did there.
It’s just the beer talking. Hebrews his own.
That Is raeli lame
Oy! These puns have given me a headache…right below my Temple
That’s Torable!
Maybe PK should “gefilte”-r the bad puns before they’re posted…
Some of these puns smell like menorah…
I’s our seder masochism.
Oof, sorry, that joke was
matzo funny after all.
These puns have tuchus to hell and back.
All these are brilliant puns, none should be pass over.
the lizard doesn’t spit venom… that was just a dinosaur from jurassic park…
Only ’spitting’ venomous lizard I can think of is the Cobra…
Um, and clearly the venomous pope lizard up there.
Ah, and a full circle we have come.
Besides, the cobra is not a lizard it is a snake.
Ophidians (Sepentes) are classed as a suborder of Reptilia.
That doesn’t make lizards and snakes the same thing, just like cheetahs and housecats aren’t the same thing.
Actually that’s a bad example since they’re still both cats.
That doesn’t make them the same thing just like dogs and cats aren’t the same thing but are both mammals and both in the carnivora class.
Cheetah are actually a different class of cat altogether. They aren’t even in the Panthero family which is the big cat family.
Yes, but still a cat.
Mrow.
Cold blooded metabolism, scaly skin, cloacal excretion and reproduction
All the same family. Try googling…
That doesn’t make them the same thing. If you had said “spitting venomous reptile” that would have made sense.
But you said venomous lizard.
Snakes are not lizards no matter how you slice it.
Snakes are not lizards any more than turtles are.
Just because they all belong to the reptile family doesn’t make them all lizards.
Actually, Reptiles is not a valid taxonomic category anyway. It includes too many subgroups (mammalia, aves, archosauria, etc) to place it in one group. Even if it were polyphyletic, snakes and lizards (lepidosauria i think?) are in diffferent subtaxa.
Newms, I’m a little confused. Are you saying that the category of “reptiles” contains mammals and birds and crocs?
Evolutionary biology was a while ago but my understanding was that reptiles contains
Lizards
Snakes
Crocs and
Turtles
And depending on who you talk to, birds.
Mammals and amphibians are in different categories.. and then the fishy things have a category too. I did some poking on the internet and it seems to agree with me. [LINK] The site does say that Reptiles is becoming and invalid category, but not yet.
Can you clarify or cite a site?
Snakes and lizards are both in the subclass (I believe that is the proper grouping) Squamata, but snakes are in Order Serpentes. I could be wrong about exactly which grouping they are in (Maybe Order Squamata and Suborder Serpentes as opposed to Subclass and Order), but they are more closely related than say turtles and lizards. Nonetheless, a snake is still not a lizard. And no, birds and mammals are not included in the Class Reptilia, but both evolved separately from it.
Well thank god I’m not a reptile.
I would however like to be a bird… Is that possible?
Only if we get to call you a chimp since it is all the same difference to you.
Makes sense then, now that Cobra Commander has become the Pope
the only one I can think of with venomous spit is the komodo dragon, but they just sort of…drool on you.
Komodo Dragons are not venomous. So far scientists have only discovered two: the Gila Monster and the Mexican Beaded Lizard. I think we need to alert them to this Frilled Pope Lizdard.
D’oh!
*lizard
Komodo dragons have been studied and their bites have symptoms akin to venom. Bites to the fingers cause rapid swelling and shooting pain to the elbow. But i was talking about the bacterial spit, which will infect and kill prey over a period, like venom for a spider will digest something for it, or destroy tissue for a snake. But yes that isn’t an actual venom.
Hey eddie, they’re talking about your ex again …
Looking into it more. what was recently discovered (2005 i think) is that lizards and snakes likely have a venomous ancestor and snakes and gila monsters and such kept the vemon delivery parts while others did not, but komodo dragons, monitor lizards and others do in fact have venom
Actually if I remember right when I did my research on them, they weren’t venomous but they are immune to septicemia which is carried in their bite. This gets there because of their unsavory diet of carrion. So they bite their victim and without medical attention, it dies from the disease within a couple days, in which case the Komodo dragon comes back around to finish it off.
If you are saying they are venomous, I will be a jerk and ask for a source because I remember the study I did so if I am wrong, I want to see the proof for my own sanity sake. I am very fond of the Varanid lizard family and like to keep my facts straight.
a link in my name. beneathe figure 3 and 4 it talks about the venom of the lace monitor and komodo dragons. I am a bit distracted so I may be misinterpretting this stuff in which case I will gladly back down, but i do believe they do have venom, it simply is not…as functional as say a cobra’s venom as they use the saliva infection to just wander and eat the thing later.
Basically a Komodo Dragon uses Bioweapons (in
the same way we use Anthrax) rather than Venom
A bit of both but they mostly use bioweapons to do their dirty deeds.
Gah, just realized I was being redundant. Ignore my last post since it was already stated…… *headdesk*
Can’t read the full article but decided to be less lazy and look it up myself. They do appear to be mildly venomous with the bacteria being their main subtle weapon. I r learned now. Thanks muchly.
I recall, the bacteria in their mouth comes from digesting rotting meat, I don’t believe that they produce it themselves, I thought it was diet dependent. The bite wounds often turn gangrenous because of this bacteria.
Could be wrong, no time to look it up right now.
Ya, I already stated that in an above statement about their carrion diet.
The whole thing seems perfectly muddled to me.
“… the lizard venom system is thought to be restricted to just two species and to have evolved independently from the snake venom system”
which seems to agree with me that there are only two venomous lizards.
“Here we report the presence of venom toxins in two additional lizard lineages (Monitor Lizards and Iguania)”
So it seems that where we are stuck is the “venom toxins”.
Do venom toxins = venom? Since the article is making the distinction, I would tend to say no, but then again I’m not a … lizardologist. And certainly not a Venomous Lizardologist. I just grew up in the southwest with these stupid things and had Venomous Things Not to Touch 101 all the way through high school.
However, I believe we can all agree that whether there are two species or several species… The Frilled Pope Lizard is venomous and needs to be put on the national watch list.
Herpetologist is the word you’re looking for
Someone who studies herpes?
Ah, yes, but the bacteria in a kimodo dragon’s saliva is toxic.
komodo retard.
I know you are, but what am I?
No, there are two species of venomous lizard -the frilled lizard being one of them.
Yes, when I was wee my favourite programmes were the David Attenborough ones…
“the lizard doesn’t spit venom… that was just a dinosaur from jurassic park”
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Yeah, one’s a relic of a bygone prehistoric age, and… um…
The other’s a large lizard?
Indeed.
That is a creepy picture!
Maybe because he is a very creepy [s]man[/s] person?
WIN
Oh, Darth Benedict, this could have been your Marilyn Monroe moment, if only you’d practised that sexy smile like we talked about.
This is the funniest and yet most disturbing thing I have read in this thread…
“The Seven Year Nietzsche”
coulda made you an Übermensch!
I heard Darth Benedict prefers to be the Üntermensch.
Brings new meaning to the term bottom feeder.
*barfs*
All around, it’s a gruesome image.
There are people we haven’t pissed off in a secluded tribe in Africa! TO THE POPEMOBILE!
Poor Robin…
“TO THE POPEMOBILE!”
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“you mean your Chevy?”
lol!
Ironic how the Pope looks like some kind of Devil.
Thats what I was thinking
Someone once commented that he looks like the love child of Zell Miller and Robert Blake. Now I can’t unsee it.
Hey, a funny one. What happened to the poor guy’s eyes?
Kinda looks like he’s spotted prey.
HE LOOKS LIKE THE SITH LORD!
It’s amazing how I can learn more about herpetology on this site than I can on Wiki. :-/
Ah man, don’t disrespect pictures of Pope Benedict…
I listened to a speech he gave once and it really turned my life around. I was going to run away from something but didn’t because he’s so full of hope and so kind and gentle and really seems like a nice person and he said some very encouraging things. He’s really lovable and uplifting.
Yeah I can see the beanie baby now……… ewwww My eyes X.X!
thus sayeth another of the great unwashed, err, delusioned masses
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while he and his empire sit on top of billions if not trillions of dollars worth of gold, jewels, property etc, and people around the world, hell in his own back yard, are starving, do you really think he should be beyond satire? untouchable? because he gave over the radio, fortune-cookie advice that you were able to apply to your own life?
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here, i’ve got a magic 8 ball for sale, cheap at $1million
sorry, that was to leo
dude it looks like someone played with the contrast on a pick of dracula >.>
The young spragon looks as if he’s going to blow!!!!!! ass hairs apart and squeese those sphincter muscles. THANK GOD YOU WEREN’T STANDING BEHIND HIM!