Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Triceratops, Rhinoceros, or Hippopotamus?



We NEED to know! Comment here or on YouTube for which you think it is or if you think it's something else entirely. Only you can settle this argument!

This also happens to be my favorite of the vlogs by far. I think riding on plastic playground equipment adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the cinematography. All except for the parts where my sister seemed to deem the plastic triceratops (yes, I am on team triceratops) more important than my head. I am very glad the screen shot includes my head.

Also, I want to briefly address the punishments I've been getting. You can all look at the April 22nd post comments where these punishments have been congregating. First I'd like to say that I'm committed to doing all of these should I fail to post. I'll summarize them here: one requires me to go somewhere I've never been, another requires me to interview a person I don't know well, and another requires me to invite someone to spend time with me.

I think the only problem with these punishments is how nice all my friends are. I know I eliminated the really exciting punishments like streaking in public but I think I'll revise one of the rules a bit. I still will not eat anything inedible or improperly cooked but I will eat anything that is gross but qualifies as safe food. So getting me to eat something slightly gross (I really hate eggplant parmesan) is on the table so to speak. You may all add food punishments if you've already given a punishment or you can now submit one by itself.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

My fun tv journalist. I love you

Love Mom

Cherie said...

Mom! You need to choose one! Triceratops, rhino, or hippo?!

I'm glad you like the vlog, though.

Anonymous said...

It's clearly a trirhihiperospotamatops.

Seriously, though, I'm caught between hippo and triceratops. It's got a hippoesque silhouette, but the frill and horn of a triceratops. So I'm sticking with trirhihiperospotamatops.

Cherie said...

Very diplomatic answer. ;)

Anonymous said...

Cherie
I agree with you I think it is a triceratops. Hut you can never be sure of kids toys.

Love Mom

Anonymous said...

I second Brian's comment and would like to add it also has a thick tail, which lends me to believe its a triceratops. What's kind of funny is that I just got done reading an article in a back issue of Science News that discussed the disassembly and conservation of the Smithsonian's triceratops! Turns out, they pieced it together from several individuals, most of which were juveniles, so they ended up making plaster casts of the missing bones to get one adult skelton and then used the juvenile bones solely in the display cases. Pretty cool!!
(BTW, I am TERRIBLY jealous that you can get even get your tiny butt on that kiddie ride! JK)

Cherie said...

I think the Smithsonian article is clearly a sign that it's a triceratops.

And actually I would like to point out that my butt would not fit in the seat where the little butts are supposed to fit. It's just my feet. I'm sitting on the back edge which is not actually the seat area.

Tim said...

Triceratops. No question. Just look at the tail.

Cherie said...

I know! The tail's definitely my trump argument.

Go team triceratops!