Name a Dinosaur

Name a dinosaur. Any dinosaur.

Why does nearly everyone say Tyrannosaurus Rex? Why does he get all the attention? What’s he ever done for us apart from stomping around very, very heavily and roaring at jeeps in movies?

“What’s your favourite dinosaur?” I ask my husband.
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Well, he does mention T Rex, but follows up with quite a discourse on different dinosaur species (he is, after all, a preacher). In the end he decides he prefers Stegosaurus.
Stegosaurus is nice. You don’t know what the stegs were for, but mystery leaves room for speculation, and there’s always the remote delectable chance that your guesses will turn out as good as the palaeontologists’ best theories, and that one day when they finally discover the answer to the question of steggishness, you’ll be able to shrug and point to the date when you shared just that opinion on social media three years previously… I’m saying they were defensive, an imitation of an enormous poisonous plant, securing Stegosaurus his solitude and tranquillity. 

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