From: Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
Reply-To: Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org
To: edels@msn.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: Thagomizer
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:12:48 -0700
Sorry, but I used the term years before Bakker: at the 1993 SVP meeting
in Albuquerque.
Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology/
Chief Preparator
Department of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205
Phone: 303-370-6392
Fax: 303-331-6492
for PDFs of some of my publications, as well as information of the Cedar
Mountain Project:
https://scientists.dmns.org/sites/kencarpenter/default.aspx
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of Allan Edels
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:00 AM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: Thagomizer
The first usage of the term (outside of Gary Larson), as far as I know,
was in a talk by Bob Bakker, in 1998*, while describing a hole in an
allosaur bone, that he said just fit the spike of a stegosaur. He
concluded that the allosaur had been hit by a Thagomizer. Got quite a
few laughs from the mostly professional/semi-professional
paleontological crowd. (Obviously fans of Larson).
Allan Edels
* => That's when I heard him speak at the DinoFest Symposium 1998
(Philadelphia, PA, USA). IIRC, he may have given the same speech (or
similar) in the months prior to that event.
>From: Guy Leahy <xrciseguy@sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: xrciseguy@sbcglobal.net
>To: twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com, dinosaur@usc.edu
>CC: tholtz@umd.edu, deathspresso@yahoo.com
>Subject: RE: Thagomizer
>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:17:15 -0800 (PST)
>
>Here's the Wikipedia definition... :-)
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
>
>Guy Leahy
>
>
>--- Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Simpson wrote:
> >
> > >Thagomizer. Is this the actual accepted term for
> > the
> > >steg tail spike array or a word made up by Gary
> > Larson
> > >from the Far Side here used semi-facisiously(sp?) ?
> >
> > Both?
> >
> >
> >
>