RE: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Eric Martichuski
>
> >crap now my head hurts. Tweedy not dinosaur!
> >
> >Though it would be a funny cartoon to have tweedy walk
> >around cocky because he finds out he is a dinosaur.
> >
> >andrew

(Just to point out, "tweedy" is how we university faculty sometimes dress. The 
Warner Brothers character is "Tweety" :-).

> Reminds me of a Lazarus Long (aka Robert Heinlein) quote:
>
> "This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's
> side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else
> to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a
> world in which happiness is always in short supply. "

Don't have it handy, but Neil Gaiman (in _Ananzi Boys_) has a wonderful quote 
on the flipside, about the dinosaurian nature of
modern birds (and how every crow is like a little _Velociraptor_ at heart...).

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