I dunno, these questions ruin the story for me anyway.
The whole delayed gratification thing for the troll makes no sense either.
Why would he let the first goat go, on the understanding that a slightly bigger goat will probably be along in a minute?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Feb 2014, 10:24, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

because greed

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Feb 2014, 10:28, Reply)

It's also not teaching kids good strategy when dealing with child molesters
as they probably don't want the bigger child anyway.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 20 Feb 2014, 10:29, Reply)

It's like in Jurassic Park 3, right? Bear with me.
Sam Neill and chums run into a T Rex munching on a dinosaur. Said T Rex inexplicably leaves said half-munched dinosaur to scavengers in favour of charging after tiny shaved monkeys.

Story telling lacks internal logic, is my point.
( Kroney, Thu 20 Feb 2014, 10:29, Reply)

I thought paleontologists were increasingly of the opinion that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a scavenger rather than a hunter.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Feb 2014, 10:37, Reply)

Apparently Dr Grant was of the old school, Tangers.
I don't know, do I? God.
( Kroney, Thu 20 Feb 2014, 10:42, Reply)

That food was there dead, the humans provided a nice chase, and like fuck are they having it's rotting corpse!
Shoo!!
Go get your own rotting corpse, tiny humans!
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 20 Feb 2014, 11:24, Reply)