(used in Feb/99)

10.        Host of conference keeps drinking from a bottle of Windex and saying that the Loch-Ness monster lives in his swimming pool.

9.         Dinosaur expert is Zsa Zsa Gabor.

8.       There's an RV wrapped in tinfoil with a big sign on it saying "paleo-mobile".

7.       Most interesting specimen is a quart of Valvoline for the "paleo-mobile".

6.        Technical difficulties arise when the "grand wizard" can't get the cross to burn.

5.        Sign outside saying "All Specimens Made of Real Milk Chocolate With a Taste of Mint".

4.        Rarest specimen lives in the washroom.

3.        A 60 Miinutes van is parked out front.

2.        There's a guy who keeps telling you that the trilobites didn't go extinct but that they all live at his house and that they "make a cozy little nest for themselves" in his lap when he watches T.V.

1.        Huge fight erupts when somebody from the Star Trek convention next door shouts "Spock could beat T. rex in a fight any day!".

Martin Brazeau