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i'm trying to picture a madlibs with this ... *g*

One swift google for madlibs later:

Shaved Bo Peep has lost her suspenders and doesn't know where to find them. Leave them alone and they'll come home ticking their hair behind them. Pointless Bo Peep fell fast asleep and dreamt she heard them strip but when she awoke, she found it a joke, for still they all were flying. Then, up she took her little dodo determined for to find them. She found them indeed, but it made her heart dye for they'd left all their handcuffs behind them! It happened one day, as Bo Peep did stray onto a pepper near by - There she spied their girls, side by side, all hung on a tripe to dry. She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye. Over the hills she ate and tried what she could, as a good hairdresser should, that each tail should be properly placed.

i want an "all of the above" for #7!

I can think of other people that would too..

That's because some other people are perverts :)

I also wonder what the proper plural of archaeopteryx is. Because I'm very tempted to make it archaeopterices, but I'm almost certain that that would be wrong. But then archaeopteryxes doesn't look right either. And once again, google comes to my aid. Apparently it should be archaeopteryges.

And google once again suggests a diet most probably of insects and/or small vertebrates. Personally, I think that the latter option sounds more plausible.

Apparently it should be archaeopteryges.

That's what I would have guessed.

But then, I'm biassed by having learned (Modern) Greek. (OTOH, -x can come from an underlying -g-s, -k-s, or -ch-s, IIRC, so it's not obvious what the stem is.)

Oh yes. I'd forgotten about that :)

Is this some weird dating scheme where you match us all up according to really odd criteria..?