Today we ventured to Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, TX.
Apparently this is a large tourist destination.
There are several large fiberglass dinosaurs in front of the touristy shack when you first drive in.
Both beasts were made by some French guy in the 60's (while smoking dope, I'm sure) and were on display at the World's Fair in NYC.
How they ended up in Glen Rose, TX and how they were transported the thousands of miles was not divulged.
This was probably the era when fiberglass was new and modern.
They used to call it the Brontosaurus.
Now it is the Apotosaurus.
All mention of the Brontosaurus should cease immediately and all reference to the Brontosaur should now be applied to the Apatosaur.
"......Why has it taken 100 years to learn that one of the largest of all dinosaurs Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus of the school book) has been wearing the wrong head? That seems rather basic. How did this mix-up occur; and where has the old fellow's head been all of this time? The answer to the last question is, of course, that its true head has been in the museum's research collection for all these many years, patiently waiting for research to catch up to reality....."
(source of quote: AIG)
And these are the characters that would have us believe the earth exploded into what we have today.
Let's just try to get the correct heads on the correct animals first, then we can discuss how the world blew up into an organized......ism.
Side note: I actually thought AIG was an Auto Insurance Company, but apparently they are also experts on dinosaurs and scientists.
But I digress.
The thing is: scientists are useful for things like making electricity, developing missiles to shoot at other countries or building internet potato guns.
Occasionally they help us cure diseases.
But most of the time they do nothing.
Thus they must change the names of things that have perfectly good names and do not need to be changed.
That way we will think they are working hard and moving things along.
Otherwise we will start to (correctly) guess that they do nothing all day but play online chess, sip red wine and listen to Yanni.
The lesson we have learned just recently is that we must not make the scientists angry by telling them we know they do nothing, otherwise they will sell nuclear technology to the Koreans.
After encountering the French exhibit we moved to the riverbed where we could check out footprints that were captured in the clay and preserved for our viewing pleasure.
We went on a little hike and then splashed around in the river.
Afterwards we got some ice cream and headed home.
Another action-packed Saturday adventure.
1 comment:
I think those are the same dinosaurs from Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
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