Re: Sigh

[Derek Tearne <derek@nezsdc.fujitsu.co.nz>]

> 
> 
> I happened to be browsing through a toy store the other
> day and spotted a big of plastic dinosaurs.  I recalled
> my own childhood collection - now hopelessly out of date,
> of course, tail-draggers every one - and decided to check
> 'em out.  

Seeing as all my friends are aware of my interest in dinosaurs I
occasionally find dinosaurs appearing on my desk, or arriving in 
small packages in the mail.  

On top of my monitor is stegy, he has no cheeks, his forelegs are splayed
reptile fashion, his rear legs are a bit closer to the more modern
straight down style and the thagomiser is pointing upwards (I'll forgive
them that one).   It was however, very cheap.  I've also got a therapeutic
and anatomically pretty close Carnegie collection pachycephalosaurus (it's 
therapeutic effect is that I bash his head against the nearest wall rather 
than my own in moments of extreme frustration.

At home I've gained a large collection of dinosaur toys (some walk and scream,
some are the wooden skeletal jobs).  

The most surprising however, are a set of small plastic earings which were 
spotted by a friend's ten year old daughter.  

They have cheeks were appropriate, don't drag their tails, and are generally 
some of the most correctly reconstructed cheap toys I've ever seen.

So it's not all doom and gloom.  The only sad part is that, if I tried 
wearing one of them at work I'd probably get the sack ... or be ridiculed 
.. or both.  

Instead they form a little herd in front of my computer at home.

If only someone made a decent toy^h^h^hmodel trilobite...