Meaning of Tyrannosaura regina | Babel Free

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Alternative letter-case form of Tyrannosaura regina.

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“You have scaly tail which helps you to stand up—like a tripod, like Tyrannosaura regina, but you are much smaller than she is.”

“TYRANNOSAURA REGINA / HAS BLUNDERED INTO THE LIGHT / I DO NOT RECOGNISE HER / I DID NOT GIVE BIRTH TO HER / I MERELY ROLLED AWAY THE STONE”

““So what’s your favorite?” I asked. / “Tyrannosaurus rex.” / It figured. / Something crashed in the other room. Bethany was being Bethany. Tyrannosaura regina, I suppose, would be the female version. / We talked dinosaurs awhile.”

““Well, if it's any comfort — it's thrown me for a loop how a bright young woman like you could get into all this. I thought the church was a hangover from the Middle Ages, if not the dinosaurs. But you” — he lifts his eyebrows and smiles — “are no Tyrannosaurus rex.” / She laughs.[…] “Glad you remember your Latin. But with me — wouldn't it be Tyrannosaura regina?” / “God, Jerry, damned if I know.””

“Indeed, the legends of giant people in the north of Minnesota who could cross the Mississippi with one step probably came into existence from the bragging done about the great growth of corn in Minnesota. Not that it’s all myth: how about those bones that were found in the north of Minnesota that were thought to be those of a dinosaur, Tyrannosaura regina, until enough of the bones were found and assembled and it turned out to be a giant chicken?”

“This strain is found only in females of the sub-variety Tyrannosaurus Rex; these large and muscular specimens are most obviously distinguishable by their constant attempts to camouflage all female characteristics.”

“The coronation of Tyrannosaurus Rex – or rather, in this specific case, Tyrannosaura Regina – will take place this summer, with the release of Steven Spielberg’s film version of Jurassic Park. History’s most imperial Iron Lady will be back on the throne, with history’s most efficient killer, the sickle-clawed Velociraptor, at her side.”

“It's a little known fact that the largest of the dinosaurs, Brachiosaurus, was in fact a rodent. It was the prey of choice for the evil Tyrannosaurus Rex and its mate, the placid Tyrannosaura Regina because its flavour resembled that of a common semi-flightless proto-bird.”

““Gotcha!” he murmured in triumph. “Ho, sweetie. Ecce homo. There’s no place you can hide where I can’t find you. Behold Steel, J. H., author of Investigation into an Obscure and Fatal Disease among Transport Mules in British Burma, eighteen eighty-five (Bombay?). The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as Tyrannosaura Regina.””

“The lawyer it is who meets the most ignominious end, plucked from a port-a-pot by the Tyrannosaurus Rex—or would it be more correct to say Tyrannosaura Regina?”

“One of my personal favorite dinosaurs is the Tyrannosaura Regina. :-)”

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