TIGER HORSES

["Darren Naish" <dwn194@soton.ac.uk>]

Naughty Nick Pharris wrote..

> Most likely as a dark color phase of _Equus burchelli_.

You mean of _Equus quagga_ Nick. _burchelli_ was named later, and is a
subspecies. Oops.. forgot to mention the obligatory dinosaur.

Err... Hey, here in the Uk we have a sort of TV quiz show called 'Mastermind' -
 the sort of name the BBC thought up for TV show's back in their 1950s heyday.
It's terribly boring and formal and has contestants sitting in a black leather
seat answering questions about a chosen specialist subject. One contestant from
this week's show answered questions on THEROPOD DINOSAURS. Yikes! It made me so
nervous - and I suddenly realised that I actually know very little about
dinosaurs. But I needn't have worried - the questions were easy, and I got every
one right. They included things like 'Which Mongolian theropod was found locked
in a fighting posture with the herbivorous dinosaur _Protoceratops_?', 'What
does the word Theropoda literally mean?'. The contestant did well, but didn't
get them all right, and let the side down by not remembering _Giganotosaurus
carolinii_. What's worse, the host (Magnus Magnusson), said it 'Gigantosaurus'..

And I always thought the questions on Mastermind were really technical and in
depth. 

List members are hereby banned from naming their pet mammals Darren or any
variant thereof.

"Now I'll show you what I already know"

DARREN NAISH