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Nermal
May 24, 2004, 07:52 PM
The latest webcam shots came through, and there's a dinosaur in the picture! And not just any dinosaur, but a famous one! :eek:

Source (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/australasia/view/86115/1/.html)


King Cobra
May 24, 2004, 08:15 PM
Baah-hahah. John Callan uses the word "wag." Ha that's great! :D
Nermal
May 24, 2004, 09:26 PM
Baah-hahah. John Callan uses the word "wag." Ha that's great! :D

"Wag" = "One of our guys" maybe?
MongoTheGeek
May 24, 2004, 09:28 PM
Baah-hahah. John Callan uses the word "wag." Ha that's great! :D

I had thought of a wag in a slightly different meaning but looking it up I guess prankster is a preferred on.

Maybe its too much wonkery on my parts.

Maybe its time to dog the wags....
Nermal
May 24, 2004, 09:57 PM
What does it normally mean in the US? Sure, it's a prankster, but your post makes it seem like you thought it meant something else?
MongoTheGeek
May 24, 2004, 10:56 PM
What does it normally mean in the US? Sure, it's a prankster, but your post makes it seem like you thought it meant something else?

I don't think its a US thing. I think its a more an inside the beltway thing. I've heard it mean someone who panders for attention. Its like "talking head" but more defamatory and more of a sense of unworthiness.
Nermal
May 25, 2004, 12:44 AM
You don't hear it much here, so I was just curious :)

To be perfectly honest, this is one of the few times I've heard the word, so as far as I'm concerned it could mean anything really :rolleyes:
Golem
May 25, 2004, 02:31 AM
Well I have heard English use it the same as "Joker" but the normal NZ usage would surely be to "wag" school? and since it I am talking NZ'er is it should be "pommies" not english:)

But white Island lol if it had said fiordland I might have beleived it for a least a second.
Nermal
May 25, 2004, 02:44 AM
Oh yeah, wagging school, completely forgot about that one - and I did it today :eek:

I live in Whakatane, which is in the the same bay as the island, and is where a lot of tours depart from. People go over there a lot, so I find the story believable.
Golem
May 25, 2004, 04:48 AM
No as in Dinosaur Live or Dinosaur bones, Since white island isnt very old and I had to think about something for the time it took for the story to chug down the internet , Barney didnt occur to me
Mr. Anderson
May 25, 2004, 08:50 AM
That's great!

Most likely an inside job though....someone had to put the camera there in the first place.....

D
cr2sh
May 25, 2004, 01:55 PM
Very nice.

Here's the direct link with a few more photos....

http://www.geonet.org.nz/whiteisland.html
IndyGopher
May 25, 2004, 11:09 PM
No as in Dinosaur Live or Dinosaur bones, Since white island isnt very old and I had to think about something for the time it took for the story to chug down the internet , Barney didnt occur to me
BARNEY??? That's not Barney! it's DINO! From the Flintstones!
jackieonasses
May 25, 2004, 11:13 PM
this thread got my attention! hehe

i really thought dinosaurs lived there! KIDDING