"There's no rest for the jolly, not on the most important night of the year for Stegosaurus Claus!" declared Stegosaurus Claus.



"Here I am stomping forthrightly around the World! I've left my cozy little workshop in Brazil to deliver toys to all the good little girls and boys of the World.

Yes, the entire World! I should hope no one questions my ability to accomplish this seemingly impossible deed, as it would show a great lack of faith in miracles. How can you not believe in Stegosaurus Claus, yet spend time reading the blog of a singing, dancing, walking, talking Stegosaurus?

In truth, Virginia, there Is a Stegosaurus Claus, and I am he! If I cross paths with Santa Claus tonight I'll tell him you said hi!"

"I will take some time to drink milk and eat cookies. Also, Christmas Trees. Sorry about the Christmas Tree part. They're delicious. I'll make up for it -- Promise. I ate the pear trees too. All twelve of them. The partridges flew away. I wish I could fly like they do! Do you know what else I will take time for? Eating fruitcake ! I have a lot of respect for fruitcake because some of it is older than I am."

"I sincerely hope your holidays have been a delight. Keep being good, and get a good night's rest. I don't want to have to pass your house by!

"If I can give you any good parting advice it is this : View the world as if you were a baby just out of the shell. Be an example of peace and good will to all, and you'll be sure to have me in your heart, even if you can't see me as I stomp by! "

"I was back home in Colorado on Thanksgiving break from college when it so happened that I was visited by my friend Archaeopteryx. Readers of my blog know how much I love birdwatching, so you know how highly I think of Archaeopteryx as a friend." said Stegosaurus.

"It was about a year ago, you know that the news came from the paleontologists that Archaeopteryx would no longer be flying, a prospect that made us both sad, because formerly Archaeopteryx was one of the most majestic of flyers."

"How are you feeling, Archaeopteryx? I was just about to settle down to a nice meal of ferns, but I always have time for my friends. Thank you for visiting me." said Stegosaurus to his friend.

"Oh, I'm still pretty upset about the whole situation," admitted Archaeopteryx in a resigned, rather glum tone. "But I didn't come to you to complain. I just wanted to stop by and visit for a while."

"Well," said Stegosaurus. "If you really don't want to talk about it, you don't have to. But I want you to know that I can tell you are feeling out of sorts; I have a keen eye for this, having watched you on my birdwatching excursions for so many years. I'm not really doing much worthy of note myself, and I am much more interested in your welfare since the news broke that the paleontologists were grounding you. I feel bad about it. I hate to see a good dinosaur down."

Archaeopteryx sighed. "Thank you my friend. I used to soar with the pterosaurus; the only dinosaur with feathers pointing the way to the future of evolution. I used to feel so cutting edge, and now I'm forced to devolve, in effect.. Who are these paleontologists? Why do they have such an undue influence in our lives? If I were really truly bitter I'd ask you to stomp on them all forthrightly because now I'm lucky if I can hop from tree to tree!"

"They are mammals, and they put themselves in charge of all this, but it is the proper order of things," said Stegosaurus. "Sometimes I think about that myself, but I'm usually distracted by things like these ferns... or sometimes just the fact that I realize that my brain is only the size of a walnut, and I resolve not to take up limited space questioning why things are. I leave the questioning to mammals and other animals with larger brains and spend my time enjoying my trees."

Archaeopteryx sighed again. "An enviable attitude. I wish I could just be indifferent but I remember so well what it was like to fly!"

"Keep your beak up, Archaeopteryx; you're still the oldest dinosaur discovered with feathers .. be glad of that; I wish I had feathers. I've never yet been discovered with feathers. You're lucky. It really is all about perspective. Life is all about perspective."

"Your wisdom is sound, Stegosaurus. Thank you." said Archaeopteryx. "I have been feeling better since I went into therapy for my depression over being grounded. I want you to know that and thank you for being such a loyal friend. "

"I'm glad to hear it." said Stegosaurus. "Very glad indeed. Take care of yourself. Perhaps you will fly again. Who knows? But what ever paleontology thinks, I like you just the way you are."

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Bonjour, je m’appelle Loricatosaurus!

Bientôt, je vais célébrer mon premier anniversaire de mariage!! Je suis très heureuse d’être l’épouse de Lexovissaurus! Nous passons de merveilleux moments ensemble à l’opéra, en mangeant du fromage, en marchant le long de la Seine ...

 Et pourtant, j’ai réalisé qu’il n’y a pas que le nettoyage de la caverne et comment savoir entrer dans une salle pleine de porcelaine quand l’on a une superbe queue pointue.  Je suppose que si le cousin de Lexovissaurus, Stegosaurus peut entrer à l’université, moi aussi je le peux.

J’ai pensé et pensé à propos de ce que je devrais faire. J’avais faim et je suis allé manger des fougères et du fromage. Et puis, j’ai pensé encore. Finalement la solution m’ai venu à l’idée. J’étais toujours curieuse pourquoi j’étais devenu éteint et maintenant c’est le temps de le savoir! Je vais entrer à l’université et étudier la science! Je vais me spécialiser en théorie de masse extinction et je vais devenir un archéologue!

Donc, j’ai entré en piétinent pour expliquer à mon cher époux mon plan. Il m’a dit que si c’était lui il ferait confiance aux théories de mammifère de changement du climat et des chutes de météorites parce qu’ils ont de plus gros cerveaux, et me dit  de relaxer et de manger du fromage.

"Mais, "  avec affection il ajouta "Si c’est vraiment ton ambition ma chère, tu as mon appui!"

Et ça c’est mon époux! Je suis très fier de lui. Après un bon repas de fromage et des rosiers au Jardin des Tuileries, nous avons décidé qu’après les vacances de Noël je devrais entrer en piétinent pour m’enrôler dans des classes à l’École d’Archéologie à l’université d’Oxford, en Angleterre. Il est un époux progressif et un novateur. Il a toujours soutenue les ambitions des dinosaures femelles à l’extérieure de la caverne! Je suis très chanceuse de l’avoir comme époux!

Lundi prochain je vais commencer ma mission de recherche pour voir quelle sorte d’aide que je peux recevoir de l’Association des Dames de la Science International ou du Fond de Développement UN pour les femmes!  Peut-être je peux recevoir une subvention!

Stegosaurus held a press conference in Michigan today in order to express his feelings about the passing of Dolores Hope. The grieving Ornithischian Stegosaurus-Stenops released this statement.

"I had just stomped from Canada and was back in Michigan looking for another meal of sassafras albidum when one of my classmates told me the news that my wonderful friend Dolores Hope had become extinct at her home in Toluca Lake, California. She was only 102! It is a pity that a mammal as vibrant, generous, and philanthropic as Mrs. Hope was could not live longer. May we all live our lives in such a way as to honor the spirit of this fine woman, and her equally munificent husband. They both were friends of mine, and I will miss them for millions of years."

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"Summer is nearly at an end, and as Fall approaches, so does another semester of college!" declared Stegosaurus. "It started last week, and I am so excited! As soon as I could I stomped forthrightly to meet my class in Michigan, where we all got together and identified some delicious thickets of sassafras albidum.

Afterward it was only a short stomp into Canada, where we found some delectable Prunus pensylvanica. We were about a month late for the cherry season, but the leaves and bark served as a wonderful treat. While there I had hoped to visit my Canadian friend Styracosaurus in Alberta, but he was not home, having stomped elsewhere to hear a Wooly Mammoth sermon in Nova Scotia.

Before we left Canada though we had an opportunity to eat a nice meal of Amelanchier alnifolia. It's great being back in class again. I love learning and spending time with my classmates."

"I received communication from my cousin Kentrosaurus in the last couple of weeks," said Stegosaurus. "He says, ' I am well, and have been to Johannesburg to see Wooly Mammoth on his revival tour. What an inspiration! I wish you could come out to hear him! I was so moved by his passion for the Lord I felt inspired to let you know about his tour. I encourage you to stomp forthrightly to him when he comes to the shores of America.'

"You know with what sincerity I write my letters from Nigeria which supplement my military pension," Kentrosaurus continued. " Well, Wooly Mammoth has double that intensity in his delivery. His story is terribly tragic, you know, being frozen as he was, for so many thousands of years. Is he grateful to Lord Jesus now that he is revived again!"

"Here is his sermon; I write it to you for your benefit, cousin Stegosaurus."

"Brothers and Sisters, I welcome you today to my revival sermon, thank you for allowing me to visit you all here. My heart is warmed by the hospitality of the people of Johannesburg, South Africa. I say my heart is warmed, and it really is, you know I have a well known story and it is a fact that for thousands of years it was my fate to be frozen; locked away from the land of the living in the icy grip of the cold land of extinction.

Cold and heartless it is, my friends, my Brothers and Sisters! But my heart is warmed by your hospitality, the kindnesses you have shown me in the last few days, and by the kindnesses of the Lord Jesus in my recovery and return to the land of the living! What joy re experienced! Let me tell you, Brothers and Sisters, I was FROZEN, but now I am SAVED! And as it says in the Book of the Psalms, it says, "THE LORD shall PRESERVE thy COMING AND THY GOING forevermore! I says, FOREVERMORE! " Lord, A Lord A Mighty! Can you say with me, Brothers and Sisters, AMEN? AMEN! AMEN! For there are those who give credit to modern science for my miracle, but I counter to you my Brothers and Sisters, that nothing happens which is not the will of the LORD! If the Lord Jesus will it, so will it BE!

I return you again to that same Psalm, 121: Where comes my help and salvation? THE LORD! It says, it tells me what I can have, and you can have it too, if you will surrender your will ! Feel the POWER of the LORD! the pure power of DIVINE SALVATION!

Where comes my help and salvation? It says, in the book of the Psalms, I lift up mine eyes, I lift up mine eyes, and my trunk, to the Mountains! TO THE MOUNTAINS! Where does my help come from? THE LORD! THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH! AMEN! HE will not let your foot slip! He who watches over you will not slumber! So even as I slept frozen solid in the land of extinction, THE LORD DID NOT SLUMBER! He did NOT ABANDON ME! THE LORD JESUS IS HERE FOR YOU TOO! If all you do is ask, the LORD JESUS waits to enter your heart! Do not be cold, as HE WILL NOT SLUMBER! His heart is warm, My heart is warm, YOUR hearts will be WARMED by the JOY OF SALVATION! AMEN!!

INDEED, says the Psalms, HE who watches over Israel shall not sleep!! YOU know something, Brothers and Sisters? I will tell you something, maybe you did not know, and this will enlighten you: THE LORD watches over Israel, but he also watches over us HERE in JOHANNESBURG SOUTH AFRICA! THE LORD JESUS is waiting FOR YOU, Brothers and Sisters, waiting! He does not want that you should turn to SATAN, who leads you with lies and deceit to the cold land of extinction!

The Book of the Psalms tells, us, IT SAYS, THE LORD watches over you; THE LORD is your SHADE at your RIGHT hand! Or paw! or CLAW!! AMEN! LORD A MIGHTY! CAN YOU HELP ME SAY IT? I want you to help me to hear you say AMEN! AMEN, brothers and sisters! AMEN! The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon BYYYYYYYYYYY night! AMEN, LORD JESUS, AMEN!

And I say onto you all, the last is where I started, and I tell you again, the LORD shall PRESERVE thy COMING AND THY GOING FOREVERMORE! Let me tell you, Brothers and Sisters, I know all about BEING PRESERVED! SO I tell you, I WELCOME you into the HEART of the LORD! into the WAY! THE LIFE! THE FAITH you HAVE CAN move MOUNTAINS and DO ANYTHING you WISH AND DESIRE! BE not FROZEN and locked away! Come with me Brothers and Sisters, to the JOY in the LIGHT OF THE LORD JESUS!"

"Kentrosaurus encouraged me heartily to seek the sermons of Wooly Mammoth," said Stegosaurus, "But I haven't the heart to tell him that kind of forceful zeal is just a bit much for me. Religions mean well; they serve a good meal especially on Palm Sunday.. It just seems that Religion is something for mammals to fight over a lot. Do you know what the problem is? They live in a desert and they don't have any trees. All they have are vines and fig trees; and I don't need to tell you what happened the last time I ate too many fig trees!"