I came across this site while looking for the name of the dragon in "The Never Ending Story (it’s Falkor, btw). I was enjoying what she had to say until this paragraph (or two):
Right. 'Cause that’s what a real T-Rex would’ve done millions of years ago. Hmmm…
It’s hard to tell if she’s serious or if she’s being facetious (sp?). Reminds me of something I read once. Basically, a female department head at some college, the head of some department such as “Asian Women’s Studies,” had two plastic recycling bins outside her office, one for “Plain Paper” and one for “Colored Paper.” Some wiseacre came by and replaced the latter sign with “Paper of Color.” Well, Dr. Watzername sent an editorial to the college newspaper: “I don’t think this is funny…”
She wants to have it both ways: to be impressed with the majesty of a creature that evolved to be brutal predator (or scavenger, as it’s now suggested), but to have it turn out to be kindwy and wuffable.
It won’t work that way. If you like dragons, T-Rexes and so on, you must accept that they would just as soon eat you as look at you.
I hate you, you hate me,
let’s hang Barney from a tree.
With a nick nack paddywack,
give a dog a bone,
let’s not take ole Barney home.
thank you very much, we’ll be in town all week