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Squirgle · #1 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 03:01 AM

Hey just curious, but did anyone else have a facination with dinosaurs as kids? I never thought about it until today when I was going through all my old books, but when I was a kid I was just Way hooked on dinosaurs. I loved 'em. Almost coincidental that I'd be really interested in 'scaled beasts' as a kid, think nothing of them for a good 6 or 7 years and then wind up becomming a reptile fanatic. So I was wondering if its kinda common...any other reptile 'freaks' out there who loved dinosaurs as a kid?
Squirgle
Just popped into my head so don't mind me....
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trinitywolf · #2 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 03:08 AM

DEFINATELY!!!
I loved dinosaurs as a kid. Good point Squirgle!! I never really considered that...
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Woapalanne · #3 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 04:00 AM

I loved dinosaurs... but more than dinosaurs, I love snakes [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] Too bad my mother had a deathly hatred of them - which is one reason I love my boa so much: she'll neeeever come by unexpected [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Bry · #4 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 04:07 AM

LOL Woapalanne...

I loved dinosaurs as a kid. As a matter of fact, I was a big animal freak, always have been. I once had a ribbon snake at the ripe old age of 8, but gave it back to the pet store pretty shortly after I got it. Never put any thought into keeping a snake again until my 2nd year of college, and look where I am. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]

Come to think of it, can you name any 2nd grader who isn't fascinated with dinosaurs?

Bry
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XzyluM · #5 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 05:16 AM

I was pretty fascinated with dinosaurs when I was growing up. I still remember digging a 4' hole with my bear hands looking for dinosaur eggs when I was about 4 or 5. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
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thomasito · #6 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 05:52 AM

I LOVE THEM ...and still like to watch them on Jurassic Park
I always used to collect dinosaur magazines..every month running to the store to buy them
maybe thats why i love snakes to .....and sometimes when my boa's head sticks out of some leaves ..it really looks like the raptor that killed that australian-raptor guy in the first JP movie..so cool
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Dr.Oviparous · #7 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 08:10 AM

Definetly! I was thinking about this the other day and wondering if a lot of herpers were fasinated by dinosaurs as kids. well, looks like a lot of us were! my whole room was filled with dinosaur stuff, now my whole appartment is filled with herps [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] ! <TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Quote:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><BLOCKQUOTE>I still remember digging a 4' hole with my bear hands looking for dinosaur eggs when I was about 4 or 5.
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#8 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 02:42 PM

Discovery Channel, Monday nights, Prehistoric Predators, summer series...I never miss it.

Dinosaurs led me to reptiles when I was about 6...haven't looked back...but I love the whole evolution thing...
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eddie · #9 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 02:49 PM

I had all the lick and stick sticker books on dinos when I was a lil one.
And I grew up to love them also.
With the exception of Barney and friends, everything reptile is pretty good.
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#10 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 03:15 PM

<TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Quote:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><BLOCKQUOTE>I had all the lick and stick sticker books on dinos when I was a lil one.
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THAT is exactly how I got into reptiles! The sticker books!
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bensnacks · #11 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 03:51 PM

Yep! I was into em' too.
I had set of moulded plastic ones.
Took them to the beach with me even.

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Ophiophagus-hannah · #12 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 05:43 PM

I really liked the Flintstones as a kid! That got me into Dinosaurs! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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mirabelasunshine · #13 (**permalink**) 07-17-2002, 06:30 PM

Without doubt! I built a stegosaurus, more or less, out of a bleached & baked chicken skeleton (and a lot of glue, and a lot of imagination) when I was five. But more than anything, snakes were *it.* Catching a garter snake in the yard, a snake edition of Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins, the every three years' visit to the Philadelphia Zoo reptile house -- now there were some things to celebrate. I kept garter snakes in a terrarium I had a few times, but I could never get them to eat, and fortunately for them they always escaped before very long. I'm not sure why, but I had the idea that what a garter snake would want was a ball of raw hamburger, dangled on a string. Kind of like soap on a rope. Makes me wonder now what I expected would happen to the string if the snake were so hungry as to swallow the meat blob. But anyway -- yeah, dinosaurs were cool too.
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