Comments on: Various Curiosities. http://creationrex.com/2009/03/30/various-curiosities-2/ Hi, I'm Rex, I'm a dinosaur and this is my blog. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Snuffleupagus http://creationrex.com/2009/03/30/various-curiosities-2/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Snuffleupagus Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:01:54 +0000 http://creationrex.com/?p=353#comment-35 Whether "Dr." Matt Lamanna designed that awful Godzilla-esque doll or not, I'm sure he'd be very disappointed that Rex forget to italicize <em>Triceratops</em>. But maybe this will answer a long-standing question for me - while it's scientific convention to italicize the genus and species names of organisms, do the organisms themselves do so? Or even care? To expand on that thought, sort of like in the T.S. Eliot poem, do you identify with the name that scientists have given you or do you have your own secret name for yourself? Whether “Dr.” Matt Lamanna designed that awful Godzilla-esque doll or not, I’m sure he’d be very disappointed that Rex forget to italicize Triceratops. But maybe this will answer a long-standing question for me – while it’s scientific convention to italicize the genus and species names of organisms, do the organisms themselves do so? Or even care?

To expand on that thought, sort of like in the T.S. Eliot poem, do you identify with the name that scientists have given you or do you have your own secret name for yourself?

]]> By: Rex http://creationrex.com/2009/03/30/various-curiosities-2/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Rex Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:38:32 +0000 http://creationrex.com/?p=353#comment-34 Cotter, Flattery works on handsome dinosaurs. I guess I won't eat you now. Rawr. Rex. P.S. Steelers/Cards rematch in the preseason?! RAWRRRR! Cotter,

Flattery works on handsome dinosaurs.

I guess I won’t eat you now.

Rawr.

Rex.

P.S. Steelers/Cards rematch in the preseason?! RAWRRRR!

]]> By: Cotter http://creationrex.com/2009/03/30/various-curiosities-2/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Cotter Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:26:42 +0000 http://creationrex.com/?p=353#comment-33 Sorry, Rex! No offense intended whatsoever! Just making a [bad] joke. You're right. I could never dream of living up to the job you do over here! Besides, who am I to argue with the King, anyhow??? Sorry, Rex! No offense intended whatsoever!

Just making a [bad] joke.

You’re right. I could never dream of living up to the job you do over here!

Besides, who am I to argue with the King, anyhow???

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