About 15 years ago, I lived next door to a fellow who drank – a lot. He had a few problems at work, at home with the wife, and while driving. He straightened himself out, got his marriage put back together, recovered his job security, and did real well.
One night, sitting on my patio drinking iced tea with him, he told me that my young son was instrumental in his recovery. My son had an inflatable Stegosaurus that was about 4 feet high and 6 feet long. One night my son left it standing in the back yard. My neighbor came home drunk, went into his back yard after fighting with his wife, and got scared half to death by the dinosaur in my yard. He wasn’t sure if it was alive or not, and he could not believe what he was seeing. He said that was the moment he started to sober up.
Dinosaurs – is there anything they cannot accomplish?
Weer’d Beard beat me to it – that is much bigger that a Velociraptor. Last time we visited the Yale Natural History Museum they had a Deinonychus skeleton that looked about man-sized if it was fleshed out.
Velociraptor was the size of a turkey. Not sure why Crichton and Spielberg got them so wrong. If they wanted to scare people, Utahraptor would be the best.
June 7th, 2012 at 9:25 am
Actually Velociraptors were kinda tiny. That’s really closer to a Deinonychus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor
June 7th, 2012 at 9:48 am
Where are the feathers?
June 7th, 2012 at 10:12 am
About 15 years ago, I lived next door to a fellow who drank – a lot. He had a few problems at work, at home with the wife, and while driving. He straightened himself out, got his marriage put back together, recovered his job security, and did real well.
One night, sitting on my patio drinking iced tea with him, he told me that my young son was instrumental in his recovery. My son had an inflatable Stegosaurus that was about 4 feet high and 6 feet long. One night my son left it standing in the back yard. My neighbor came home drunk, went into his back yard after fighting with his wife, and got scared half to death by the dinosaur in my yard. He wasn’t sure if it was alive or not, and he could not believe what he was seeing. He said that was the moment he started to sober up.
Dinosaurs – is there anything they cannot accomplish?
June 7th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Weer’d Beard beat me to it – that is much bigger that a Velociraptor. Last time we visited the Yale Natural History Museum they had a Deinonychus skeleton that looked about man-sized if it was fleshed out.
Velociraptor was the size of a turkey. Not sure why Crichton and Spielberg got them so wrong. If they wanted to scare people, Utahraptor would be the best.
June 7th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Some of you are a king sized drag.
June 7th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Coolest.
Dad.
Ever.