Philosoraptor

Examples

Drop soap: floor clean or soap dirty? — philosoraptor captioned variant.

Drop soap: floor clean or soap dirty?

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Drop soap: floor clean or soap dirty?

documented by Know Your Meme.

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Does expecting the unexpected make it expected? — philosoraptor captioned variant.

Does expecting the unexpected make it expected?

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Does expecting the unexpected make it expected?

documented by Know Your Meme.

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Order fast food and disguise it as my own cooking — philosoraptor captioned variant.

Order fast food and disguise it as my own cooking

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Order fast food and disguise it as my own cooking

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Green thinking dinosaur image macro: Since large language models can only give new permutations of things it has seen / shouldn't it be called degenerative AI?

Since large language models can only give new permutations of things it has seen / shouldn't it be called degenerative AI?

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Since large language models can only give new permutations of things it has seen / shouldn't it be called degenerative AI?

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Green thinking dinosaur image macro: The Bible says women are made from a rib / this implies that all Scottish women are McRibs

The Bible says women are made from a rib / this implies that all Scottish women are McRibs

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Religious and gender/Scottish wordplay.

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The Bible says women are made from a rib / this implies that all Scottish women are McRibs

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Green thinking dinosaur image macro: If two vegans are arguing / is it still considered beef?

If two vegans are arguing / is it still considered beef?

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If two vegans are arguing / is it still considered beef?

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Philosoraptor asks: “What if Pinocchio said… My nose will now grow.”

Pinocchio crashes the truth detector

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If the prediction is true, what triggers the nose? If it is false, the lie makes it happen. The caption turns a fairy-tale rule into a loop with no comfortable exit.

Underlying Philosoraptor illustration: Sam Smith / Lonely Dinosaur.

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Philosoraptor: “In 50 years from now / Will retirement homes host LAN parties instead of card and bingo nights?”

Bingo night gets a network upgrade

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Instead of a cosmic mystery, the dinosaur wonders what happens when gamers grow old. The image was archived in 2013: its fifty-year horizon belongs to that joke, not a forecast made by this archive.

Underlying Philosoraptor illustration: Sam Smith / Lonely Dinosaur.

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Philosoraptor: “If actions are stronger than words, why is the pen mightier than the sword?”

Two proverbs enter. Neither leaves intact.

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Two familiar bits of wisdom sound perfectly sensible separately. Put them next to each other and the dinosaur can cross-examine them as though they were competing laws of physics.

Underlying Philosoraptor illustration: Sam Smith / Lonely Dinosaur.

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About & sources

A pondering dinosaur turns everyday contradictions into mock-philosophical questions. The fixed illustration makes each new caption feel like another thought from the same character.

Date

Illustration: 2008; image macros: 2009; curated spread: 2010

History

Sam Smith created the illustration for a Lonely Dinosaur T-shirt in 2008. Archived macros appear in 2009; this timeline uses 2010, when example roundups document its continued circulation.

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