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One thing I have noticed since I started running for the Senate is that a lot of people care about what you think. I've been interviewed a lot since I declared my canadacy so its a good thing that I really enjoy being interviewed.


1. What started the Stegosaurus?

Well, I am told that my mother found me one day while she was eating a cabbage patch, but I never believed that.... I know how it works. A mommy Stegosaurus meets a daddy Stegosaurus and they like each other very much. Then, they get together and they wiggle a little bit. I know that's hard to believe; but that's the way it has happened for over 140 million years.

2. What are your hobbies?

Dancing the lindy hop, eating plants and roots, running for the senate, and world travel.
I also like sky diving, birdwatching, and gardening. I have diverse interests for someone with a brain the size of a walnut.

3. What are your favorite songs to sing and why don't you do it more?

Oh, I sing quite often, actually. Do you have a copy of my multi platinum wax cylinder Stegosaurus Goes Opera? I am particularly fond of Italian Opera. I like to sing Una Furtiva Lagrima and dedicate it to Marilyn Maxwell. When I get together with my cousins Kentrosaurus and Lexovissaurus we like to sing Brindisi Libiamo, libiamo, ne' lieti calici. Of course, Lexovissaurus is French, so while in France I sing a lot of French opera as well. I am also particular to Showtunes, and the Jazz of my native country.

4. Where are you from and where have you been?

I am from Colorado, USA, originally. I've travelled many places and been all over, but travel was a lot easier when there was only one continent.

5. Where are you going?

Hopefully in November to the US Senate ! Then I will join my brother Triceratops and my friend Parasauralophus in the Dinosaur Congressional Caucus. Together, we will work to better the lives of the people of Colorado and the entire United States. One of our primary objectives will be to try and convince the State of Arizona that it is time for them to stop procrastinating and choose a State Dinosaur.

I have recently been interviewed, and I love being interviewed. Here's the first of my two most recent interviews. It is always good for congressional candidates to stay in touch with their constituents, and I will do the best that I can to answer honestly.


1. Being that you're supposed to be dead and extinct... how do you really feel about all these plush homages to your image?
The likeness is reasonably accurate, though sometimes the colours are off. One thing's for sure they are definitely not to scale!

2. Do you really feel that your decaying corpse and ensuing conversion process is really worth me having to pay over $4/gallon?
Of course not ! Fossil Fuel is murder and extinction! As you know, I have held a press confrence supporting Mr. Denny Klein's HHO Technology. Save a dinosaur and walk. It's good for your cardiovascular system.

3. What was your personal hero?
My father, O.C. Marsh.

4. Do the Geico commercials give a true representation of the humans you were used to?
I do not understand this question; I only watch television when I am on it, or when Marilyn Maxwell movies are being shown.

5. Would you rather be able to breathe fire, eat meat, or fly?
I love birdwatching so much that I wish I could turn into a bird and fly away. But, that will probably never happen. Someday I'd like to go skydiving with my friend Ludwig Gantner.
Edgar Rice Burroughs let me glide in his novel, The Land That Time Forgot using my spiff sexy plates, but that is not really their function. I have no desire to eat meat, nor are my teeth
designed to consume it. I have had cameos in movies where dinosaurs breathe fire, and Sid and Marty Krofft let my friend Dimetrodon breathe fire in their show
Land of the Lost, but the ability to breathe fire seems to me to serve no useful purpose.


Incidentially, regarding Land of the Lost, I lobbied heavily to appear on that show, I went directly to Sid and Marty Krofft and represented myself. I told them I'd be perfect, that small children everywhere love me for some reason. They let my friend Brontosaurus on the show, before he had a midlife crisis and changed his name to Apatosaurus, They let my brothers Triceratops and Allosaurus on the show, but not me. No amount of begging and pleading would move their cold, cold hearts.

And now, a word from everyone's favorite cheese eating surrender - dinosaur, Lexovissaurus!
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C'est moi, Lexovissaurus, et je suis ici pour passer en revue pour toi un travail symphonique par le compositeur américain Steven E. Brown. Ce travail s'appelle la « merveille d'O », et il est convenablement appelé, parce que c'est un morceau merveilleux et très plaisant à l'oreille.

Les trompettes à l'ouverture même sont réminiscences de la saison des amours d'un Apatosaurus. Je suis tout stupéfié que Mr. Brown à employer le son de la trompette pour imiter un bruit qui est si normal et très exquis.

En environ une minute, nous entendons quelques cordes très magnifiques, qui servent de musique très plaisante pour le dîner. C'est parfait pour un repas de conifères et de fromage.

À presque 3 minutes, l'interprétation symphonique remarquable de l'Apatosaurus joignant à une reprise, et à environ 3:47, l'orchestre peint une image réminiscence de l'ouest Nord-Américain, la terre natale de mon cousin Stegosaurus. Tout a fait expansible et stupéfiant. Personnellement, j'ai pensé que cette section était parfaite pour écouter, pendant que j'aiguille ma queue en épi, que je fais chaque matin avant mon petit déjeuner de rosiers et du fromage.

Les instruments de vent une fois utilisés sont utilisés très habilement. Je souhaite qu'ils aient été plus répandus. Il est clair à la fin que le morceau a été apprécié par les participants du concert. Personne n'a toussé, quelle merveille. Si je portais des chapeaux, je dirais, " chapeaux à tous messieurs, voici un génie, " mais moi je suis un Stegosaurid, et Stegosaurids ne portent pas des chapeaux.

Je suis ainsi enamouré par Mr Brown. Quelle compétence, je voudrais l'invité, lui et sa famille à dîner avec moi la prochaine fois qu'ils visitent la France. Je préparerai un dîner de cœur d'artichaut et des aubergines avec du fromage, de mon propre jardin personnel. Oui, j'apprécie ce merveilleux travail que la « merveille d'O » est, il serait encore meilleure s'il étaient français. C'est pourquoi que d'espère que Mr. Brown visitera et appréciera la France tellement qu'il voudra vivre ici et être mon compositeur personnel. S'il était d'accord je lui préparerais de la nourriture de mon jardin chaque jour avec du fromage.

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My 140 million and 2nd birthday was June 1st, and do I feel great ! I don't feel a day over 17! What is funny is that people have been telling me that I actually look 17!! After all these years.....

A birthday party was held for me at the studios of WVTF public radio, where I recorded my double platinum wax cylinder Stegosaurus Goes Opera.

My cake was not as good as ferns in the early morning, but it had some nice flowers. The key to living a long time is to stay active, and I have been active for 140 million and two years. I'm a prime example of the health benefits of eating trees.

After a grand celebration I took a nice walk out to California where I was pleased to be honored with a lifetime achievement award granted by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts & Sciences. It was given to me to acknowledge my 140 million and two years success in playing extinct. How nice of them to notice me. I always try to be inconspicuous, but that's really hard when you're 9 feet tall and 30 feet long.

I was disappointed that Marilyn Maxwell had not yet returned from her USO tour; my dream is to someday actually meet her, but until then, as she says, It Doesn't Cost A Dime To Dream!

I was also very pleased to meet with my friends Issac Hayes and Stephen Spielberg, both of whom endrosed my run for the Colorado senate.

I also visited my friend Tony Bennett in San Francisco, who is still looking for his heart. I hope he finds it soon.

Yes, life has been absolutely delightful for 140 million and two years! I wonder what the next 140 million and two will bring?

National Public Radio, Sunday, May 18th. 2008. "Morning Edition":

Andrea Seabrook: We turn now to our senior news analyst Daniel Schorr, with some insight on the senate race in Colorado. What do you think, Dan, of the rise of Congressional candidate Stegosaurus?"

Daniel Schorr: Well, Andrea, Its amazing because he started off on such a bad foot, er, claw. He was really down in the polls, and it was more than his penchant for eating trees that was hurting him.

AS: Yes, the popular insult is for at least a senior Senator to be referred to as a dinosaur, and of course Stegosaurus is one.

DS: He is indeed. He is the epitome of big government, and has expressed some big government ideas, when he isn't too hungry and eats the paper they've been written on. As has been noted, Stegosaurus has a love of eating trees which makes him unpopular with the environmental wing of the Green Socialist Party. but his recent embrace of the alternative fuel HHO, invented by Denny Klein has given him a boost that really puts his candidacy in contention.

AS: It seems contradictory, but that's usual for a politician I think.

DS: It is this honesty, Andrea, I agree, that is connecting with the voters.

AS: Plus Stegosaurus is pulling in a lot of celebrity endorsements, such as Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Striesand, and Jane Fonda.

DS: Yes, they are acting like small children! If small children could vote, the election would already be over. A guaranteed landslide for Stegosaurus. There are already some people looking at ways that the Senate Chamber of the Capitol building can be expanded to accomodate him.

AS: Wow, well, what do you think Ken Salazar can do to stand a chance in the election??

DS: Well, he needs to stick to his message, and his record. Ken Salazar is a very popular senator and he could well pull ahead of Stegosaurus before the election even happens. He has a record to stand on. All Stegosaurus has is some spiff plates and a cool spiky tail.

AS: All right. That's NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr, who joins us for analysis of the days' events. Thanks, Dan!

DS:Thank you, Andrea.