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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My 11-year-old, who has a bit of asthma, was watching “Jurassic Park” and remarked with deep satisfaction “Oh, I love the bronchosaurus!” There are 252 g-hits, with only a very few obvious jokes or puns. Something to do with the bronto’s long neck, no doubt.
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Or, since all dinosaurs are supposed (especially by many children) to be fierce, violent beasts, “bronco”? (17k ghits on broncosaurus, but many are purposeful.) For most kids without asthma, broncho- is probably not on the radar screen.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-08-14 09:47:10)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I believe the Broncosaurus was most prevalent in Denver…
Feeling quite combobulated.
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I’ve read that primordial fast-food establishments were staffed largely by prontosauruses.
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That’s right, Jon. It even predates the NFL. Did you know that Denver’s annual National Western Stock Show has an intense rodeo competition where the professional cowboys often suffer broncosauras gladly?
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There is such a dinosaur as the brachiosaurus.
He was a sauropod (long-neck), as was the brontosaurus/apatosaurus.
You can tell him apart in drawings, though, because his nostrils were above his eyes, which created a sort of crest on the top of his head. And I don’t think they lived at the same time.
Of course, if you aren’t sort of “plugged in,” you might never have heard of the brachiosaurus.
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Toots – Lame puns aside, thank you for the very interesting tip. The “small world” syndrome hit me right in the eyeballs last night when I saw a cool animation of a brachiosaurus in a PBS documentary; “Planet Tales: Mystery of the Jurassic”. Looking in wiki to verify my video sighting, I noticed that there is some debate among paleontologists concerning the placement of the brachiosaurus’ nostrils. You might want to check out the wiki Brachiosaurus article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiosaurus . Fascinating stuff.
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2001 was when that revised nostril positioning position was postulated; lots of websites and kids’ books haven’t updated. Thanks for that tip.
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