Fwd: Dinosaurs from La Brea Tar Pits --??--

[Dinogeorge@xxxxxxx]

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Subj:    Re: Dinosaurs from La Brea Tar Pits --??--
Date:    95-11-30 02:00:19 EST
From:    Dinogeorge
To:      bmw@uclink2.berkeley.edu

In a message dated 95-11-30 01:20:49 EST, you write:

>Did the phrase "sheepish, yet sly chuckle" not tip you off to the fact that
>the above sentence was intended to be at least somewhat ironically humorous,

>in view of your views on cladistics, that you've recently expressed 
>in assorted newsgroups? It does not reflect confusion in my mind or in the
>minds of its other practitioners. Phylogenetic taxonomy is an antidote 
>for confusion. Do you wish to continue this argument here or take it to
>sci.bio.paleontology (again)?

Now, don't get all in a snit. I'm through posting to sci.bio.paleontology for
a while, having had several posts lost in one week. Those things take time to
write, and since I'm a writer by profession, it's time taken from writing I
could be doing for pay. My e-mail postings at least get through.

Plus, cladistics, shmadistics. It's no big deal. If you want to consider
teratorns as La Brea dinosaurs, that's fine with me. But it catches me a bit
off guard, because I still think the term "non-avian" dinosaur is
redundant--at least for the plant-eating dinosaurs. So when someone uses
"dinosaur" in a sentence, I expect he or she is discussing those big animals
that became extinct at the end of the Mesozoic.