Re: The LOST WORLD

[tlford@ix.netcom.com (Tracy Ford)]

>
Betty wrote:
>
>1)Paleontologists are mostly rather un-assuming people.  Pretty boring
>UNLESS you are already interested in the subject (except that fellow
>with the beard and hat on all those tv shows about dinosaurs, of 
course 
>;]  ).
>To the media's audience.


Some might take offense to the part. I was at a symposium and a 
journlist for a radio station was there. She was surprise that the 
paleontologist, WEREN'T BORING or Un-assuming people.

>
>2)Rocks are boring to look at until someone who knows how to look at
>them right can show you what interesting things are there.
>
>3)It's hard work!  Yucky-poo poo!  Heat, cold, mud, scorpions, 
carrying
>heavy rocks, snakes, and mostly not finding things. 
>

I take it you don't like doing that Yucky-poo work.

Tracy