Re[2]: Official State Dinosaurs

[ldunn@milbank.com]

     Wabandco@aol.com sez:
     
     > Why is it no one has selected the Tyrannosaur as their state dino? Are 
     > beaurocrats that squeemish, or am I missing some poliitcal 
     > incorrectness?
     
     Now I've seen everything.  T-rex *not* a state dinosaur?!?!?! Those 
     darned "pencil-pushing bureacrats" are at it again! The hated "political 
     correctness" is at its diabolical work once more! <g>
     
     Maybe it's considered to be an act of hubris to claim the most fearsome 
     predatory land animal in Earth's history as your state fossil.  
     
     Maybe all of the states with any real connection to Tyrannosaurus rex 
     already have a state fossil. ("Geez, how do we break it to the fossil 
     shrub that it's out?")
     
     Larry
     
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