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Re: Irritator

To: Multiple recipients of list <dinosaur@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Irritator
From: ornstn@inforamp.net (Ronald Orenstein)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 23:19:31 -0500
Reply-to: ornstn@inforamp.net
Sender: dinosaur@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu

>Irritator! IRRITATOR! Whay a crummy name for a dinosaur! And with a species
>name derived from a ficticious character from a book which got dinosaurs
>wrong anyway. Please tell me the submission date on the paper was April 1st,
>1995!
>If it is valid, what's next? Itchy and Scratchy? With Irritator, Drinker,
>Jenghiskhan etc the genera list is starting to read like a who's who of the
>social misfits.
>Graeme

Well, I'm all for Irritator, I'm especially all for challengeri as I've
loved Conan Doyle's Challenger stories (except "The Land of Mist"!) for
years, and if I were in a position to do so I would name the next large
theropod to turn up Calvinosaurus wattersoni.  So there!
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