• Rose Thorne
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    342 months ago

    I was always told manufacturing and construction breed the meanest coworkers.

    Then I learned about decades of journalistic wars between paleontologist that boil down to "I’m right, they’re wrong, therefore I present we name this species after my opponent. The ‘Doodoostupidheadasaurus’. It has a never-before-seen giant penis bone, which I shall call the “Rightusbiggusdickusflagellum’.”

    All because someone didn’t properly attribute two words back in grad school.

    • @ThrowawaySobriquet
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      272 months ago

      They’re also the only discipline I’m aware of that frequently sabotaged each other’s research using TNT like Looney Tunes characters