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Post by Libraraptor on Jul 4, 2008 19:49:42 GMT
I did not know what I was searching for until I found it... Do you know this feeling? Well, now I do again. I am a 30 year old, married man from Germany and I fell in love with dinosaurs about 25 years ago, the usual dino-period in a young boy´s life. Strange thing: I never really grew out and even widered my interest and plunged deeper into the matter of palaeontology. I even wanted to study this subject, but somehow I failed. With this forum and the blog about dinosaur toys I just found a kind of refugee from my everyday live that mostly consists of work and, let´s say, being forced to growing up. Dinosaurs themselves are a refugee and I materialize this fact by buying and collecting stuff about Dinosaurs. Well, what did Mr. Mitchell say in his "Last Dinosaur Book"? We do not think about dinosaurs, we think with them. They are both reality and object of fantasy. The tension that lies in between somehow fascinates me. But before I get boring I stop this introduction and from time to time will inform you about what strange things my big collection includes by now. So long!
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Post by therizinosaurus on Jul 4, 2008 21:33:16 GMT
welcome!
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jul 4, 2008 22:52:01 GMT
Welcome indeed Libraraptor!
Completely agree with you about the 'pull' of dinosaurs - they have the mysterious element of mythical creatures, yet they were actually real.
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Post by tomhet on Jul 5, 2008 3:11:17 GMT
Gut, ein deutschsprachiger Mensch!
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Post by Libraraptor on Sept 4, 2010 7:47:25 GMT
Due to the stunning number of new members, I just read my introduction again after over two years. Wow, what an analytic guy I was back then! I´m much more relaxed nowadays! And the only German, I guess. I´m happy we have grown - in number and diversity!
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Post by fossil on Sept 14, 2010 23:44:13 GMT
Ja, now you are 32 years old, Libraraptor; still less than half my age. If you retain your interest in carnivorous plants, you may wish to Google Woahink Lakes Association (I spent part of my childhood in that delightful environment) and scroll down from the aerial map to an interesting photograph of Darlingtonia californica (an endangered pitcher plant I used to find by the score on small, isolated plantations in the wooded areas near where we lived. Alas, I had eyes only for garter snakes and newts in those early days, though I thought the pitcher plants looked exotic and always stopped my play to admire them. Childhood opportunity lost.
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