What Does The Melissa Say?

No, no, don't worry. I'm not going to be playing any Ylvis for you. But I wanted to share something that's really made me laugh recently. It's a website that takes your Facebook status updates and comments, rearranges them, and spits them back out at you. It doesn't sound that funny, but there are some pretty good ones. I've seriously screenshot-ed over 100 of them, but I've weeded and weeded and weeded and narrowed it down for you. Here are some of my favorites:

The Questions:

The Deeps:

The Totally Random and Slightly Scary s:

Honorary Mentions:

Runners Up:

Grand Prize Winners aka my FAVORITES:

                             

Sorry this is such a behemoth but it was so hard to narrow things down! Anyway, it's a fun place. Check it out: what-would-i-say.com. Or don't. You have agency.

P.S. Why CAN'T I join a gang?

The Flame of New Love

I have a huge announcement:

Let it hereby stand that as of 10:35 this morning (in the heart of my geology class), I have a new favorite dinosaur. This is a big deal. I mean, I feel like I think about and blog about dinosaurs a lot, and ol' Velociraptor has been a favorite for a good long while.

But.

Behold.

The Lystrosaurus:







Not convinced? Okay here's another:






Look at those tusks!! He has tusks AND a beak. How many creatures can claim THAT?


Here's a model:





And my personal favorite picture:


AHHHH. Too cute. I can't handle it. This picture makes it look like he has swag. He reminds me of this street smart dog/Billy Joel - amiright?



But, lest you think I'm shallow - the reason I am such a fan of this little guy is NOT just his looks. No, this guy laid down his life for the sake of science. Okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch. But because he DID die and his remains were fossilized, we have fossiliferous (that is a real word. Yes, I do use it as often as humanly possible) evidence to support continental drift which later developed into the theory of plate tectonics which is arguably the greatest discovery in all of GEOLOGY which is my FAVORITE SUBJECT!!

Check out this map:



Isn't that cool? Sweet little Lystrosaurus, saving the world, basically. Or at least validating geological propositions.


But wait, there's more. Did you think he was cute in those pictures? Yes, of course you did. Well, SURPRISE! It gets even CUTER when you learn that he was:

THE SIZE OF A SMALL PIG!!





Dying. Just gushing forth with love.

So, I just felt like I needed to share this with you. I hope you don't think I'm being unfair to Velocirapt. It was a good run, you know? But it's time to move on. It's not you, it's me (and my adorable new love).