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Topics of the day:



 1. new word? (2)



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Date:  Sat, 6 May 1995 22:57:31 -0700

From:  David Harnick-Shapiro <david[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JOHN-WHORFIN.ICS.UCI.EDU>

Subject: Re: new word?



> Re: thagomizer. I don't like it. Or at least not until you can

> tell me what those Stegosaurus spikes thagomize and how. Sounds too

> agentive for something that just sits there looking sharp and

> pointed, even if I do like Gary Larson.



and



> I don't think anyone knows yet what those spikes thagomize--more

> fossils seem to be needed. Maybe it did just sit there looking sharp

> and pointed..



The thagomizer cartoon is reprinted in "The PreHistory of the

Far Side" (p. 137; Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1980-1989;

ISBN: 0-8362-1851-5, Lib. of Congress # 89-84813).



In the cartoon, one caveman stands before an easel (well, it

looks more like a slide-projection screen) on which is a picture

of the hind part of a stegosaurus. Using a pointer, he indicates

the tail and its four long spikes. The caption reads: "Now this

end is called the thagomizer...after the late Thag Simmons".



Sounds like it was pretty agentive toward the late Thag Simmons.



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