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THE WANDERING ORNITHOMIMUS...
April 12, 2019 10:00pm

 

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THE WANDERING ORNITHOMIMUS...
...LIVED APPROXIMATELY 76 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. First discovered in 1889 in the vicinity of Denver, Colorado, it was fully examined a year after its discovery and named by Othniel C. Marsh, who gave it its name-- Ornithomimus, or “bird mimic." The little (for a dinosaur) omnivore probably ate seed ferns, fruits, insects and maybe even some mammals and reptiles. And, wandering like an Ornithomimus, the Show took a circumambient route. Having recently visited Virginia City, Nevada, we reminisced, via Ancestral Memory, about a somewhat similar place, Tombstone, Arizona and the lawmen, cow-boys, owl-hoots and other riff-raff who once lived there. Then in came Michael Peppe(!) and Puzzling Evidence, and even later, KrOB. The former regaled us with tales of his toils in the bowels of the Conspiracy, now over and done with (the j_b and sadly not the Conspiracy). Yes, a splendid time (we hope) was had by all in a show lasting a bit more than 5 hours (though only five are posted here). With the poetry of Coleridge and Clark Ashton Smith among others, and featuring an answer to a question (with a donation, many thanks) from listener Mob Meattie of Washington, DC.


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