D - Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs: thing

Like most good small children, I loved dinosaurs. I had a variety of different dinosaur toys (hard-animal ones, Fisher-Price ones, etc) and a few crucial books. My favorite was Deinonychus, mostly because it had the cool slashing toe-claw, but also because it looked fast (being not-fast myself, I really appreciated fast things) and was said to be very intelligent.

I saw my first Dinosaur skeleton at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I believe it was a Triceratops.

Jurassic Park, the book and the movie, rekindled my love of dinosaurs (though I didn't like the nicknames, or how they shortchanged Deinonychus becaue 'raptor sounded sexier). I was also glad that my brother got the toys, so I could play with them too.

I used a quotation about Dinosaurs' tiny brains as the intro to my Oratory in 11th grade, and I also quoted from the final page of Michael Crichton's The Lost World in debate rounds.

See also: Debate, toys, aquaman