Re: SVP humor

["Martin Brazeau" <brazeaumartin@hotmail.com>]

My favourite bit of humor was in regards to those who would not accept that 
birds descended from dinosaurs. The comment was made that there were a few 
who still rejected the grouping of aves within dinosauria. This comment was 
followed by a slide depicting a heavily armored, battle ready medeival 
warrior! Cracked me up!

Also not only was Tatooine filmed in Tunisia but it was also filmed in the 
Tunisian town Tataouine (Different spellings)

Martin Brazeau
Heritage College,
Hull Quebec, Canada


> From: "David Krentz" <David.Krentz@disney.com>
> Reply-To: David.Krentz@disney.com
> To: bettyc@flyinggoat.com, tholmes@dolphinsoft.com
> CC: "'dinosaur message to list'" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Re: SVP humor
> Date: 26 Oct 1999 11:16:22 -0700
>
> Reply to:RE>>SVP humor                                       10:59 AM
> 10/26/99
>
>   For me, the humor came on strong when Scott Sampson (who should be a
> presidential candidate due to his commanding and animated speaking skills)
> was trying to make a case for erectile tissue in the naris of centrosaurine
> dinosaurs.  As support for his theory, a photo of the male member split in
> two like a hot-dog was projected on the screen.  Every man in that room
> crossed their legs and sunk into their seats.
>
>   I also liked it when someone asked a young man (whose name escapes me at
> the momment)  why he restored his skeletal drawings of sauropods with 
> flexed
> knees.  With a bewildered look on his face,he answered as politely as
> possible, that there is good evidence for locomotor skills in sauropod
> dinosaurs.
>
>  David Krentz
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: 10/26/99 10:02 AM
> To: David Krentz
> From: bettyc@flyinggoat.com
> I was quite fond of the young gentleman who borrowed a slide from
> another presentation showing a table (of genera found in a site, I
> think), simply so he could have a technical data slide (which had
> nothing to do at all with his talk) somewhere during his 15 minutes of
> fame.
>
> Also the charming gentleman during the bird-dino section (the talk that
> started out "Observations something") who said that he would NOT be
> having any cladistic systematics in his talk and got an ovation for it.
> We need more like him ;]
>
> And Tattoine was filmed in Tunisia, for those of you who didn't know.
>
> -Betty
>
> Thom Holmes wrote:
> > Comments that made us laugh, sometimes uproariously, while listening to
> > presentations at the SVP. It takes a special kind of person. Be proud.
>
>
> --
> Flying Goat Graphics
> http://www.flyinggoat.com
> (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology member)
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