They don't make commercials like this anymore. There's probably a good reason for that;
More like this
I don't know who I am anymore. I was sent this summary of one of my talks in California, and apparently I'm an evil fool.
You may have heard the disturbing news story about the Oklahoma murderer/pedophile/cannibal—just to make it a little creepier, he had a blog.
Here's this week's "Ask a scienceblogger" question:
How is it that all the PIs (Tara, PZ, Orac et al.), various grad students, post-docs, etc. find time to fulfill their primary objectives (day jobs) and blog so prolifically?
I'm not sure which is scarier - this commercial or the fact that I remember seeing it as a child.
The mascot's name is so ironic.
If my kid saw that, he probably would be frightened, and never eat corn flakes again.
Hmm. The actor in this commercial is now in his fifties. I wonder if being in this commercial inspired him to go into paleontology.
This is a Marx sauropod that kid is playing with? It actually looks like an Invicta model, but they were only marketed from the early seventies onward, so it must be a Marxist (the sauropod, not the kid)?