Dinosaurs! Starbucks! Crossovers!

[sunnyskywalker]

Why didn't I hear about the hadrosaur mummy earlier? It has skin! And stripes!

Rancho Cordova, CA: Cops hand out gift cards I'd drive down, but gas is expensive, and it certainly wouldn't be worth a $5 Starbucks card. Neither would the primal fear of being pulled over. Besides, I don't even drink coffee, and their scones aren't that good.

From Making Light, Elevator Pitches. Turn a classic work into a sf/f crossover. Example from Comment #29: "Waiting For Gandalf: Two hobbits eat, sleep, talk, argue, make up, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide while sitting in the Prancing Pony, waiting for a wizard who never arrives." I'm also fond of the tagline in #47: "I've had it with these goram tribbles on a goram spaceship!"

Also from Making Light, Guess the Christmas carol based on its first line in Anglo-Saxon. "Ic seah modor cyssan Sanct Niclas..."

Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Skin, stripes and clearly the original "Does my bum look big in this?" They've had to rethink locomotion completely on the basis of its big derriere.

[sunnyskywalker]

Maybe that's what the stripes are for - to be more slimming :D But really, I thought it was pretty cool that the "Cretaceous cows" might have been pretty speedy after all.

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

As they pointed out on the programme, T Rex was only running for his dinner; the hadrosaurs were running for their lives!

Memo to self if time travelling: never, ever get in the way of a stampeding herd of hadrosaurs!

[fialleril.livejournal.com]

Anglo-Saxon for the win! :D

[sunnyskywalker]

I thought of you with that one :D