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Post by DE Sinclair on Oct 20, 2014 15:49:47 GMT -5
Oh yeah I was heavy into dinosaurs for as young as I can remember. Between the normal fascination with nature and animals coupled with the old science fiction I watched like Beast From 20000 Fathoms by the time Jurassic Park came out I knew better too. An enjoyable film , but even aside the scientific inaccuracies, very different from the source material in characterizations. I still have assorted collections of dinosaur books I've accumulated in times past. I got them out once not too long ago when one of my boys was quizzing me and I realized how even from then in the 80s and into the early 90s how the science has changed. I still keep mj eyes open for documentaries on Netflix and subscribe to National Geographic on YouTube. The internet makes it a lot easier to keep up on new discoveries and theories that I haven't bought and new books on dinosaurs. But I still enjoy reading about them. Spinosaurus seems to be getting a lot of attention academically and in entertainment. But Baryonx will always be my #1 pick. I am extremely excited to have found a fellow dinosaur enthusiast! I can't find many people who share that trait with me. I've always loved dinosaurs from a young age, too. Mine was coupled with cryptozoology as well. And, I agree! I love watching the Trilogy, despite inaccuracies. Which one is your favorite? Same here! I love books on dinosaurs. Even though it's different now, "Raptor Red" by Robert Bakker is a personal favorite! Have you read that? And, too, a thankful for the Internet in this aspect. I can keep up so much better nowadays! I think the Spinosaurus is really cool! I admit that I wasn't as familiar with it until Jurassic Park III! And, the Baronyx is super cool!! A good one to have as a favorite! I feel sort of bad that we've sort of commandeered the coffee thread! We had little plastic dinosaurs we played with when I was a kid, molded in colors I'm sure never occurred in nature. Bad news when the dinosaurs encountered the green plastic army men. It wasn't pretty. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 20, 2014 18:08:36 GMT -5
I am extremely excited to have found a fellow dinosaur enthusiast! I can't find many people who share that trait with me. I've always loved dinosaurs from a young age, too. Mine was coupled with cryptozoology as well. And, I agree! I love watching the Trilogy, despite inaccuracies. Which one is your favorite? Same here! I love books on dinosaurs. Even though it's different now, "Raptor Red" by Robert Bakker is a personal favorite! Have you read that? And, too, a thankful for the Internet in this aspect. I can keep up so much better nowadays! I think the Spinosaurus is really cool! I admit that I wasn't as familiar with it until Jurassic Park III! And, the Baronyx is super cool!! A good one to have as a favorite! I feel sort of bad that we've sort of commandeered the coffee thread! We had little plastic dinosaurs we played with when I was a kid, molded in colors I'm sure never occurred in nature. Bad news when the dinosaurs encountered the green plastic army men. It wasn't pretty. Interestingly from the early hypothesis, most were dully colored, like the Dryptosaurs by Charles Knight, or many others of the time. Browns, greens, grays, and the such. Which kind of didn't make sense, as even at that time when lizards were more thought of as to where the dinosaurs evolved to, or survived into, were very colorful, like many snakes, and the Gila monster. In recent times, color has been stipulated to be just as important to dinosaurs in mating/class as most animals of the present time. To think that cheap China made plastic dinosaurs were closer to color in reality than what was scientifically accepted. I also smile at watching movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth where the special effects were modern day lizards with sails adhered to their backs as they terrorized the humans. Dimetrodon wasn't even a traditional dinosaur. It was extinct long before Triassic period began and the first appearance of dinosaurs. Oh and I only three cups of coffee today. My blood sugar told me no more after that. Edit: My first dinosaur purchase. My mother let me buy it for the St. Louis Library. |
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 20, 2014 22:34:56 GMT -5
I feel sort of bad that we've sort of commandeered the coffee thread! Don't. Par for the course, IMHO, with any dynamic community in which everyone isn't forced into lockstep. Oh, good! I'm really glad of this! I know some get really annoyed when topics aren't kept with. I find it difficult to stick with a sinlge topic, as my mind jumps from topic to topic really fast! |
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 20, 2014 22:35:09 GMT -5
I still have fond memories of at least two of the dinosaur books from the town library that I pored over as a child. One was for kids just learning to read (which I was), judging from the book's physical specs, the other for probably kids around 10 or so, which I would've been at the time I discovered it. Yet another reason I hope someday -- maybe this year? -- to time my annual December trip to & from the Shreveport area & my SW Arkansas hometown to include an extra weekday (it's not open on weekends) so I can visit the library (now in a glitzy newish building maybe 20 yards away from the little WPA-built log-cabin style structure I read so many books out of growing up) & see what fondly remembered books from childhood might still be on the shelves ... That's adorable! I, too, have fond memories about books! I love finding books I used to read! I hope you find the time to do that and find those books! Please, let me know when you do!  |
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 20, 2014 22:39:59 GMT -5
I was a big fan of dinosaurs when I was a kid, so much so that I was going to be an archaeologist when I grew up!!! I mean, I didn't become one, but what did that kid know? And, um, I brewed my own columbian coffee before work. It was nice. Same here! I wanted to travel all over the world like Dr. Grant. It wasn't for some years before I learned the term "paleontologist" was more accurate to what I wanted, but hey, finding lost civilizations like Indiana wouldn't be bad going! And, yeah, this kid didn't know she wouldn't be one either! She wants to be an actress like (even thought they're guys) Sam Neill and Harrison Ford! |
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 20, 2014 22:47:30 GMT -5
It's interesting you mention crytozoology, as I am not vastly educated in it, I do enjoy pursuing the subject. As most know here, as far as similar subject to that, I more pour over UFOs and alien abductions. (I read more than I post, but The Black Vault is one of the few other message boards I participate in, which has many similar subjects as UFOs and cryptozoology.) As far as the JP movies, I like the original a lot just because of it being the first "modern" dinosaur movie with some incredible special effects. But as I mentioned, having read the book long after I watched the movie, it actually deflated my enthusiasm for the movie. I like the characterizations in the book far more than the movie. And of course was isn't kick ass about almost everything in III? Tyrannosaurus vs Spinosaurus ... Pteranodons ... Ceratosaurus ... the patented over sized Velociraptors out smarting humans to protect their young ... it's like the ALIENS of JP movies. I have not read that. I'll have to give it a look at the library to see if they have it. Is it a non-fiction or fictional book? Another favorite, mostly from one of the first pictures I remember seeing in a book, is Drytosaurus. This painting of Charles Knight always sticks in my mind as cool, since at the time, still, dinosaurs were still consider huge lethargic creatures. I can't...I just can't...I'm laughing too hard. Ok, I'm good. I adore cryptozoology! All of it, alien abductions, UFO's, the whole thing! I'm no expert by any means, but I do my research, too! I've heard of The Black Vault, but like with most message boards, I rarely venture out to them. But, yes! I totally agree with the first being a good one. I adored it for the same reasons. I wanted to read the book. I was halfway through it when I lost in Hurricane Floyd. I wasn't understanding it well, though. I mean, I was 8, I think? I probably should have stuck with picture books. But, I was stubborn, especially in books and movies. Read things I couldn't understand and watched things to keep me up at night. Now that you mentioned it...I'm gonna go try and find it again! Thanks! But, also yes! Number III was amazing! I was overjoyed when I heard it was coming out! I was also excited about the new dinosaurs! And, the dinosaur fights, too! Always! It's sort of both. I mean, maybe science fiction. It's about a Utahraptor named Raptor Red and her journey across the land. Mostly accurate in what we know about the Utahraptor. (Except it was written before we knew about their feathers). But, that painting it amazing! I've actually never seen it! Thanks for sharing! I also now too think it cool to have been painted when we thought of dinosaurs that way! The Dryptosaurus is totally a cool one, too! The name means "tearing lizard", right? |
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Post by Wild Card on Oct 20, 2014 22:49:56 GMT -5
I am extremely excited to have found a fellow dinosaur enthusiast! I can't find many people who share that trait with me. I've always loved dinosaurs from a young age, too. Mine was coupled with cryptozoology as well. And, I agree! I love watching the Trilogy, despite inaccuracies. Which one is your favorite? Same here! I love books on dinosaurs. Even though it's different now, "Raptor Red" by Robert Bakker is a personal favorite! Have you read that? And, too, a thankful for the Internet in this aspect. I can keep up so much better nowadays! I think the Spinosaurus is really cool! I admit that I wasn't as familiar with it until Jurassic Park III! And, the Baronyx is super cool!! A good one to have as a favorite! I feel sort of bad that we've sort of commandeered the coffee thread! We had little plastic dinosaurs we played with when I was a kid, molded in colors I'm sure never occurred in nature. Bad news when the dinosaurs encountered the green plastic army men. It wasn't pretty. I did, too! Battles of epic proportions! Very violent. Or the Joe's in my case, also. The dinosaurs always attacked Skeletor's castle, which was run by the Joe's! Yeah, I was...and odd child. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 22:59:54 GMT -5
Takes sip of his steaming coffee with Irish creamer in it as he is on break from drawing....I got as far as taking some archaeology classes as an undergrad and a couple of anthropology courses as electives when I was completing my masters in Ancient/Medieval history. I loved dinosaurs as a kid, but I loved ancient civilizations more, so was debating between a PhD in history or archaeology, before real life, language requirements for PhD programs, debt, and other matters derailed doctoral plans and I started teaching and adjuncting full time for a decade before more life happened and I left teaching to do other things. I still longingly look at those archaeology mags on the newsstands or the journals I see when visit academic libraries, but paths not taken and all that.
But I did have a lot of those little plastic dinosaurs as a kid too, got them at a place called Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, CT, which is a dinosaur museum with lots of fossilized dino tracks that tailors its programming for grade school visits, we went and made plaster casts of some of the footprints to take home looked at a huge diorama of the ages of the dinosaur and watched a couple of film strips about dinosaurs (it was the 70s no computers, easy access media and all that, old school presentations baby!).
I also had a kid-focused coffee table style book on dinosaurs I got for Christmas right after that (maybe Reader's Digest published it or an off-shoot of Golden Books or someone of that type) that I used to trace dinosaurs form all the time.
Now back to drawing that vine encrusted Meso-American style step-pyramid in the background of the sci-fi splash page I am working on.....
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Post by DE Sinclair on Oct 21, 2014 11:43:42 GMT -5
We had little plastic dinosaurs we played with when I was a kid, molded in colors I'm sure never occurred in nature. Bad news when the dinosaurs encountered the green plastic army men. It wasn't pretty. I did, too! Battles of epic proportions! Very violent. Or the Joe's in my case, also. The dinosaurs always attacked Skeletor's castle, which was run by the Joe's! Yeah, I was...and odd child. Odd child? I'm pretty sure that's one of the main requirements for membership here. On topic: I had a french vanilla mocha this morning. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 12:18:20 GMT -5
Odd child? I'm pretty sure that's one of the main requirements for membership here. Being an odd adult is highly recommended as well. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 13:37:46 GMT -5
Don't. Par for the course, IMHO, with any dynamic community in which everyone isn't forced into lockstep. Oh, good! I'm really glad of this! I know some get really annoyed when topics aren't kept with. I find it difficult to stick with a sinlge topic, as my mind jumps from topic to topic really fast! IMHO, any thread that doesn't zig or zag at least once per page represents a failure of the imagination. As for finding it difficult to stick with a single topic, I do well to accomplish that in the same sent- Look! A squirrel! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 13:40:42 GMT -5
[ I adore cryptozoology! All of it, alien abductions, UFO's, the whole thing! I'm no expert by any means, but I do my research, too! Il one, too! The name means "tearing lizard", right? As adam & others here know, that whole ball of wax is one of my (many) major weaknesses as well. As I've noted before, I grew up about 25 miles away from the supposed sightings that formed the foundation for The Legend of Boggy Creek; they were all over the Texarkana newspaper when I was in 7th grade, IIRC, & the movie came out when I was in the 8th. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 21, 2014 20:39:29 GMT -5
Bigfoot flavored coffee. There. We're now back on topic without having to leave The Weird behind.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Oct 21, 2014 20:43:51 GMT -5
Bigfoot flavored coffee. There. We're now back on topic without having to leave The Weird behind. You'll have to explain. Is that coffee that tastes of Bigfoot or coffee flavored by Bigfoot, using his intimate knowledge of woodland spices? |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 21, 2014 20:49:23 GMT -5
I don't think I'd trust Bigfoot's coffee recipe's, but I'd have no qualms about using Bigfoot fur as long as it's properly prepared. My thinking is that, sure, you're drinking ape fur and all, but at least you know what's in it.
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