Jesus the dinosaur

[a_t_rain]

I'm home. Briefly. Off to Florida to read AP exams in the morning, and I've spent most of my day at home writing exercises for a Basic Writing textbook and being loaded down with free books, ten years' worth of Shakespeare Quarterly, and a plastic dinosaur by my beloved and now mostly-retired advisor, who is cleaning out his office. There were a few exciting moments when I thought the dinosaur might actually be a Jesus Lizard based on my colleague's identification, but it doesn't look much like the pictures on any of the web sites I looked at, so I think it has to be some sort of dinosaur. I might name it Jesus anyway, just because.

Does anybody know what kind of dinosaur is bipedal with a huge neck frill that looks a bit like an Elizabethan ruff?

I was going to type up proper reviews for the other three Stratford festival plays I saw (Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus, and Henry IV, Part 1), but things aren't jelling properly, so I will just say: Good stuff. Go see any or all of them if you're in the area and have any interest in Shakespeare.

Comments

[octobersnow.livejournal.com]

Does it look like any of these (http://images.google.com/images?q=Dilophosaurus&hl=en&lr=&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title). This was the dino made famous in Jurassic Park.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Could be. I left it at the office, so I'll have to check on what it looks like. I have a vague impression that the ruff went all the way around instead of being split, but I'm not positive.

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

Dilophosaurus? Though I wouldn't quote me on that, being as I'm thinking of the spitting creature in Jurassic Park. ;)

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Well, you and octobersnow seem to be in agreement, anyway, and that was my colleague's other theory (though I don't know that I trust her on herpetology, seeing as how her real area of expertise is Jacobean masques).

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

It's like those goofy "Everything I Know About Life I Learned In Kindergarten" posters -- "Everything I Know About Dinosaurs I Learned From Jurassic Park."

[grrliz.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's totally what it is. :)

[catkind.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I was going to guess triceratops, on the "everything I learned in primary school" basis... I suppose he's not very ruff-like though. Happy marking!

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

No, I do know a triceratops when I see one. This dinosaur stands on two legs, and it doesn't have any horns.

[k-navit.livejournal.com]

I friended you and thought I'd drop you a note. You gave me friendly and fantastic advice on a conference paper proposal (the advice worked, btw), we have a few intersecting interests, and I am looking at your neck of the woods for a PhD program -- plus, your journal has fic recs!

So, hi.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Hi, nice to meet you, and glad things turned out well with your proposal!

[hesterlester.livejournal.com]

Back to the lizard theory - could it be an frilled neck lizard? Less likely in the US than in their homeland here in Australia, but maybe your colleague had an Australian student or conference. They are small, but quite alarming if they hiss at you with the frill up.
See a picture here: http://www.australianfauna.com/frillednecklizard.php

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's it, but good thought anyway :)