I know we now know they went extinct 66 million years ago, and 64 millions is another date I’ve seen around, but how long how we known it was definitely way more than 40 millions ? I’m asking because it’s the date given in the the song “walk the dinosaurs” by Was (Not Was), and I wondered why such a number. Would it have seed credible at the time, or was it just arbitrary?

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    While you’re fact-checking Was (Not Was), be aware that some of the historical events alleged in “I Feel Better Than James Brown” may not have occurred literally as described.

    I was attending Mardi Gras with Fidel Castro
    Buxom cross-dressers threw fake gold coins at our feet
    As we discussed the fate of the Revolution.
    Suddenly, CIA men dressed in bikinis
    Tried to stab us with fountain pens
    But Fidel blew mustard gas through his cigar
    And immobilized the lot of them.
    Nineteen tequilas later, we had a deal:
    Havana goes back to the Mob,
    And Fidel and I open up a chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken shops.

    It is, alas, unknowable whether Mr. Was actually felt better than James Brown. How do you feel?