[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: feeling sad

[John Walton]

davewitley wrote:

> why my kids' dinosaur books didn't have the Brontosaurus in
> them, whereas mine did.

Mine had Brontosauri in them too, back in the mid-80s, and then IIRC some
bright spark scientist realised that they'd been putting the wrong head on
an Apatosaurus. Does that sound right?

--John, who remembers singing "A hundred million years ago, when dinosaurs
ruled the earth", which ended "Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex.
GRR!"

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