jwzSinger just referred to Godzilla as a "lizard" and I have taxonomic *opinions* on this.
OdicforceSounds@jwz in the world of imagination, there are not rules for the Imagination..
Godzilla can be God itself or a Dog.
In the world of imagination, anyone can have anything.
Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️
John TimaeusMy question has always been:
Do you sate, grill, or stir-fry?
I'm leaning slow cook in a heavy sauce; that's big drumsticks and probably needs the long cooking time to get tender.
Also maybe a pre-cook marinade of salt water or butter milk -- likely to be a bit gamey.
@johntimaeus Previously https://jwz.org/b/yhan previously https://jwz.org/b/yjNZ previously https://jwz.org/b/yj_B
What Kind of Dinosaur Meat Would Taste Best?
Bookmarking this in my time machine: "You could get into cuts of meat. Armored dinosaurs mainly used their tails for defense, so that would probably be a lot of good white meat. Hadrosaurs were quadrupedal and spent much of their time on the move; I suspect they would be largely red meat," Varricchio says. Sauropods, the largest animals to ever walk the earth, may have made for an interesting
Yuki "neige d'aout" Hazuki 膤 ❄️ 
@jwz it's a chicken, isn't it?
Mark Shane Hayden
Pseudonymous 
mark zero@VictimOfSimony @jwz country invading Japan
Tobias Hellgren
avpOf course it's a music band:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojira_(band)
Your Honor, we object...
...on the grounds that Asshole Godzilla is an awesome name for a band. This month, Toho ordered Arizona rock band Asshole Godzilla to forfeit its internet domain and stop using Godzilla in its name. "We gotta change the name of our band, because we're so scary hard that Godzilla and the people surrounding Godzilla want nothing to do with us," lead vocalist Nick Danger writes on ...
Will Deakin@VictimOfSimony @jwz theropod
tiagox@VictimOfSimony @jwz I need multiple-choice here.
Landa 
@VictimOfSimony
Godzilla is King of the Monsters, so it stands to reason that Godzilla is a Monster.
(They’re a polyphyletic assemblage)
*SCNR*
vim exiter@VictimOfSimony @jwz gorilla-whale
Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands@VictimOfSimony @jwz So, I got a good info dump out of a friend by linking them to this poll. They were annoyed that lizard is winning, proceeded to cite canon from the movies to support the correct answer, and I'm weirdly proud of my troll vote for fish now because I have not (yet) watched enough Godzilla to know the correct answer on my own.
(Pointedly not saying the correct answer here to avoid biasing this very scientific poll.)
(Pointedly not saying the correct answer here to avoid biasing this very scientific poll.)
Adam@VictimOfSimony clearly a subspecies of ninja turtle
Andrew White@VictimOfSimony wasn’t the Japanese name a combination of whale and gorilla?
Gerard Cunningham ✒️Anthropomorphic representation.
Mr.Nuclear Monster@jwz This is related to my interests and I want to know more
olena
Paul Cantrell@jwz
This raises what may be the single most important open question in modern biology:
Is Godzilla an endotherm???
Jack Coates 🐀@inthehands @jwz lengthy periods of hibernation, attracted to radiation sources, I think ectotherm. Like a really big marine iguana. There should be more movies about basking Godzilla warming up in the sun.
ティージェーグレェYou are probably already well aware of this, but for the taxonomic (or linguistically, or just giant monster movie) ignorant:
ゴジラ「gojira」is, canonically: a portmanteau of ゴリラ「gorira」(translation: gorilla) and 鯨「kujira」(translation: whale). So, Godzilla is a gorilla-whale atomic mutant.
I don't know this Singer (presumably not the sewing machine brand) but they're incorrect. Despite outward appearances, Godzilla is not a lizard by nature or genetics, mutated as they may be by nuclear radiation.
The "zilla" part of the Americanization does confuse things substantially, and the outward appearances being similar to a Tyrannosaurus rex don't help matters either. However, the Godzilla piss poor "localization" was from the era when they still thought it was OK to insert footage of Raymond Burr into the 1954 movie to make it friendlier to English speaking audiences. ;( Not as bad of a bowdlerization as "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" vis-à-vis 国際秘密警察 鍵の鍵「kokusai himitsu keisatsu: kagi no kagi 」aka "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" but pretty par for the course for Japanese cinema brought to America in that era.
Heck, in the 1980s they were still pulling similar BS with Miyazaki's 風の谷のナウシカ「kaze no tani no naushika」aka "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" as the bowdlerized: "Warriors of the Wind" (with approximately 20 minutes cut out of the film). That prior mistreatment was presumably why Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki mailed Harvey Weinstein (who was apparently asking for more editorial control) a katakana with a note reading: "no cuts" after Miramax optioned the rights to もののけ姫「mono no ke hime」lit. "Princess of the [things of] Spirit" (alas, half baked in the USA as Princess Mononoke "thanks" to Neil Gaiman's "treatment".)
I can't recall when the trend of inserting new footage became less prevalent, it was certainly still going strong in the 1970s with 科学忍者隊ガッチャマン「kagaku ninja-tai gatchaman」, lit. ”Science Ninja Squad Gatchaman” when it was bowdlerized as "Battle of the Planets" in the USA.
The franchise has gone through some ups and downs (I thought "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" was abysmal and they should stop making American Godzilla movies, especially after the Godzilla Minus One reprisal of things in Japan showed everyone how it should be done), and more Raymond Burr and even Mecha iterations, but Godzilla remains: a radioactive gorilla-whale.
ゴジラ「gojira」is, canonically: a portmanteau of ゴリラ「gorira」(translation: gorilla) and 鯨「kujira」(translation: whale). So, Godzilla is a gorilla-whale atomic mutant.
I don't know this Singer (presumably not the sewing machine brand) but they're incorrect. Despite outward appearances, Godzilla is not a lizard by nature or genetics, mutated as they may be by nuclear radiation.
The "zilla" part of the Americanization does confuse things substantially, and the outward appearances being similar to a Tyrannosaurus rex don't help matters either. However, the Godzilla piss poor "localization" was from the era when they still thought it was OK to insert footage of Raymond Burr into the 1954 movie to make it friendlier to English speaking audiences. ;( Not as bad of a bowdlerization as "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" vis-à-vis 国際秘密警察 鍵の鍵「kokusai himitsu keisatsu: kagi no kagi 」aka "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" but pretty par for the course for Japanese cinema brought to America in that era.
Heck, in the 1980s they were still pulling similar BS with Miyazaki's 風の谷のナウシカ「kaze no tani no naushika」aka "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" as the bowdlerized: "Warriors of the Wind" (with approximately 20 minutes cut out of the film). That prior mistreatment was presumably why Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki mailed Harvey Weinstein (who was apparently asking for more editorial control) a katakana with a note reading: "no cuts" after Miramax optioned the rights to もののけ姫「mono no ke hime」lit. "Princess of the [things of] Spirit" (alas, half baked in the USA as Princess Mononoke "thanks" to Neil Gaiman's "treatment".)
I can't recall when the trend of inserting new footage became less prevalent, it was certainly still going strong in the 1970s with 科学忍者隊ガッチャマン「kagaku ninja-tai gatchaman」, lit. ”Science Ninja Squad Gatchaman” when it was bowdlerized as "Battle of the Planets" in the USA.
The franchise has gone through some ups and downs (I thought "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" was abysmal and they should stop making American Godzilla movies, especially after the Godzilla Minus One reprisal of things in Japan showed everyone how it should be done), and more Raymond Burr and even Mecha iterations, but Godzilla remains: a radioactive gorilla-whale.