Re: Re[2]: Official State Dinosaurs

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

>      Wabandco@aol.com sez:
>      
>      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?")

Maybe the state of South Dakota should change it's State's fossil from
Triceratops prorsus to Tyrannosaurus rex.  T-rex has definitely brought a
lot of attention to South Dakota.  Hey...!!! Let's make Sue the official
state fossil of South Dakota, then she would have to be returned to S.D.

---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)