RE: Ichabod Crane

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Okie, proper story...

  Ichabod Crane was the _schoolteacher_ who was sent to train the young
boys and girlies in the ways of 18th century New England. The horseman was
simply known as the horseman. Other legends of the time point to a
fearsome warrior known as the Hessian who lost his head and sought
vengeance thereafter. I beleive Irving picked up on this. Burton's story
made is more plausible a mystery than Irving's original story was set to.
Braham Bones was a hooligan in Burton's tale, but nothing more. In
Irving's, he was the protagonist. The horseman was only a plot line.

  Oddly enough, the skull labelled "Ichabodcraniosaurus" (which will never
receive formal designation, I'm sure) was designated from a skeleton
without a head, as in Novacek's book. However, I believe that later, a
skull was found, and the name stuck. I could be wrong. However, Norell
believes this to be a new taxon as of a year and a half ago, I do not know
this is the case now. The skull differs by more than a single lack of a
twist in the paroccipital processes of the squamosals, including the deep
caudal recesses of the supraoccipital. Other features may be ontogenetic,
but the skull also shares a peculiar jugal and maxilla with
*Dromaeosaurus* in some respects.

  While chanting the Holtz mantra, remember that patience is a virtue;
it's the need to rapidly publish ideas without double-checking them or
maybe getting little blurbs out and having to correct them latter because
you want it out there as fast as possible leads to problems often lamented
on the list about bad papers in _Science_ or _Nature_ that don't really
say anything. If we wait, then we'll get better results than if we want it
now *now* NOW.

  Like I say in my tagline, "small steps."

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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