{"id":1353,"date":"2010-11-03T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T19:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2010-11-03T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T19:58:42","slug":"found-dinosaur-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/11\/03\/found-dinosaur-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Found: Dinosaur Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for No Degrees of Separation. Someone should write a song with that title, and it&#8217;d pretty much be Winnipeg&#8217;s theme song.<\/p>\n<p>It all started with this nifty infographic, which I found while reading the backlogs on one of my favourite blogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/effingdykes.blogspot.com\/\">Effing Dykes<\/a>. (I don&#8217;t think the blogger made it, but it&#8217;s where I found it, and I&#8217;m giving it credit.) If you&#8217;ve got a slightly warped, slightly filthy sense of humour and you think lesbians are super nifty, you should totally check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, it clearly explains how to deal with a potentially awkward and confusing situation, one that I&#8217;ve grappled with many a time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1355\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/you-dropped-food-on-the-floor1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1355\" title=\"You Dropped Food On The Floor\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/you-dropped-food-on-the-floor1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SO HELPFUL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really should just print this out, keep it in my pocket and pull it out as a reference guide. But my printer doesn&#8217;t work and I&#8217;m lazy.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what makes this infographic truly, truly awesome? The inclusion of <strong>dinosaurs.<\/strong> Dinosaurs make everything better.<\/p>\n<p>Because you love Stylus, you probably love our most recent cover, which was designed by a guy named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumbletoy.blogspot.com\/\">Chris Bryan<\/a>. Fun fact: I worked with Chris Bryan for a few years. Chris had some control over the sound system in our funky retail environment, and had put a number of tracks on the sound system. (Memory may be murky, but again, credit where credit is due.) Many of these tracks were highly amusing and highly bizarre. Examples: Devo tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-Z_Listening_Disc\">rendered as elevator music<\/a>, a song that sounded like an abuse of power tools &#8211; which I&#8217;m surprised we had no complaints about, as someone once asked us to turn off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA\">Public Image Limited<\/a>. But the most memorable track &#8211; and believe me, folks, this is not a complete non-sequiter from that infographic &#8211; was, as I recall, <strong>eleven minutes long and somewhat grating, and the only lyrics were &#8220;dinosaur sex.&#8221; <\/strong>It&#8217;d come on the PA, and then sort of sneak up on you in the background, until you realized <em>exactly<\/em> what the hell you were listening to. No one really complained about this song, either.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to hunt it down.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know how hard it is to search &#8220;dinosaur sex&#8221; on the internet? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mcc3aX2gH08\">All sorts<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/dinosaurs.about.com\/od\/dailylifeofadinosaur\/a\/dinomating.htm\">random<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/warmingglow.uproxx.com\/2010\/02\/animated-dinosaur-sex-yes-please\">shit<\/a> pops up. Strangeways, here we come.<\/p>\n<p>But! After some careful googling (read: procrastinating), I finally found the song. It is, simply, titled &#8220;Dinosaur Sex,&#8221; and it&#8217;s by a group called Family Fodder. The only information I can really find about Family Fodder is that they were &#8220;less a band than a never-ending collective of musicians messing with tapes in the basement of a London flat&#8221; in the late-70&#8217;s\/early 80&#8217;s. Sounds like a party I wanna go to!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there <em>are<\/em> more lyrics than just the title, it&#8217;s actually <em>nine<\/em> minutes long, and it&#8217;s not as grating as I remember.<\/p>\n<p>Dinosaur Sex, folks. 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It all started with this nifty infographic, which I found while reading the backlogs on one of my favourite blogs, Effing Dykes. 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