Ray, Come to think of it, if they can have Dilophosaurus spitting poison, then I don't see why they couldn't have one of my "dino-skunks" in Jurassic Park IV. Not like these movie-producers apparently require any hard evidence. If you are going to smell up the theater, might as well have a whole range of smells--- dino-breath, dino-flatulence, dino-skunks. That would really give the big predators something to roar about. And maybe some of the most enterprising raptors could put some camouflage on each other to make themselves look like the dino-skunks (whatever the movie-guys decide to give the dino-skunks: spots or dorsal stripe or whatever). They were so smart they could learn to stick discarded feathers on each other with their saliva (or with sticky pterosaur droppings) to come up with such clever disguises. ----Smirk, Ken ;-) P.S. By the way, I remember Saturday Night Live doing spoofs on "Jaws", but wonder if they have ever done one on the Jurassic Park series. *****************************************
From: "Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net> Reply-To: "Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net> To: <Apollo@MLink.net>, <dinosaur@usc.edu> Subject: "A Sound of Thunder..." WHAT IS IT??? :) JOKE? Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:45:22 -0400
Of "A Sound of Thunder...", James Aronis wondered, "What is that??"
Don't know for sure, but I'd guess it's a herd of sauropods simultaneously expelling faltulence.
Come to think of it, perhaps one adult sauropod could sound that way!
:) Ray Stanford
Hey, JP 4 producers, are you listening? There could soon be "smellese" devices in better theaters.
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