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The Queue: I have a new best friend

My new best friend is named Ethrandil, and he’s the only one in Azeroth who seems to be with me on this snake thing. Why are we here on cursed snake island? Why is anyone here? Why are we slaves to this torment and when can we go home?

We are now besties, bonded for life over our mutual terror, because the exposure therapy of spending so much time on cursed snake island is not helping. (And yes, you’re going to get to hear me talk about this for the next six months. Blame Blizzard.)

But while I bask in the joy of new-found friendship, this is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I try to answer your questions in between bouts of being terrified of certain fanged reptiles. Let’s get to the questions!


The Queue: Allosaurus was a lunatic

I don’t know why but I am amused by the established fact that Allosaurus specimens have a marked tendency to display paleopathologies that indicate that even among Theropods, they were willing to take risks. We find broken ribs, punctured tail vertebra, and a variety of wounds from Stegosaurus thagomizers. Including a thagomizer blow to the public bone of a particularly… let’s just say reckless… Allosaurus.

I like to imagine Allosaurus as a genus of Johnny Knoxvilles. Daring each other to attack a Brontosaurus or a Stegosaurus and getting their faces smashed so hard they spend the rest of their lives with crooked jaws, bone spurs, stubbed tails and yes, spike punctures to their pubic bones. The Tazmanian Devils of the Jurassic.


The Queue: Can we be done with this yet?

We’re at that point of summer where I am so thoroughly over it. I cannot stand eating another zucchini and I’m so sick of being sweaty all the time. It’s made even worse because all the pumpkin spice nonsense is rolling out because everyone north of me is starting to feel that crisp breeze in the air, but if I want to feel that anytime in the next month I need to stand over the AC grate wearing a dress (which doesn’t have pockets, because we’re adding insult to injury). Time does and will march on, but for now I’m truly over it.

This is The Queue, our daily column where you ask us the questions and we’ll give you some kind of answers as long as I can do it lying down with the lights off. Ugh.


 

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