Quote of the day 10th February 2018

"Now this part we call the Thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons."

(Cartoonist Gary Larson, text of a "Far Side" cartoon which depicted a hominid teacher pointing out  to his class the spikes on the tail of a Stegosaurus stenops.

This made Larson the only cartoonist to have named part of a dinosaur, because real palaeontologists immediately adopted this term from his Far Side cartoon, and it has now become the official usage to describe the tail spikes of Stegosaurus and other similar dinosaurs.)

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