We were trying to decide what animal to make for Martin next week and one possibility was a brontosaurus. No, Martin, that’s not the animal you’re getting, so this is not a spoiler. Anyway, Carrie and I were checking out the dollar fabric rack at WalMart to help us narrow down our possibilities. I found a dull slate blue that I thought would be good for a brontosaurus and Carrie looked at me like I was an idiot (which I might be sometimes, so I don’t blame her). She said a brontosaurus would be green. Well, when I think of a brontosaurus in my mind, I think of it as blue. Most other dinosaurs I think of as green, but not a brontosarus. I have no idea where I got that from, and so far I can’t find anyone else who thinks of them as blue. Maybe it comes from some cartoon I saw as a kid or something.
Let me point out not a SINGLE dinosaur toy in the Toy Isles was BLUE (although you sure did try and point out any SMATTERING of a blue WASH in the ones you did find… which were red and green mostly). I think you would’ve had a better shot trying to convince me Barney was blue and not purple than some of the stuff you picked up. Land Before Time? HELLOOOO! GREEN, BROWN, ORANGE - yet… NO BLUE! The only thing I can think of you MAY have seen a blue bronto in is The Flintstones (which, yes, I just video searched the opening credits and there WAS a blue dinosaur … but I digress…)
I’m going to get my post deleted, aren’t I? ;)
Comment by Carrie — June 24, 2005 @ 9:42 pm