Or maybe he just didn’t do too well in that class (my own college experience involved more binge drinking than academics).

The character who identified the “brontosaurus” was a WWII pilot. He was using the name widely used at the time.

Oh yeah. No problem with that, and I prefer brontosaurus myself. But I’d look pretty stupid if I didn’t demonstrate I knew the proper name. I was going to use them inter-changably… but forgot.

As for the Jurassic/Cretaceous mix up, I think he was showing a pretty reasonable level of education to know the proper name of either period.

Yes, except the exact quote went as follows Character 1: “Brontosaurus. Later Jurrasic.”

Character 2: “Got us a college boy, Mister Hawkins!”

Character 1 doesn’t correct 2, so the dialog is almost certainly trying to inform us that 1 has some level of education.

(On the other hand: If, during the World War 2 era, scientists actually thought Brontosaurs lived in the late cretaceous, and the mistake was only corrected later, I apologize profusely to everyone involved.)

As for the Jurassic/Cretaceous mix up, I think he was showing a pretty reasonable level of education to know the proper name of either period.

Tor was awesome and is going on the pull list!

Man, I was trained as a book editor, spent more than a decade as a newspaper editor & am now employed as an online editor, but what I *really* want to be is a comics editor … because it becomes more obvious by the day that those guys don’t do anything except play computer games or something. (Except that I don’t have any interest in computer games. I guess I could, like, just read comics all day, instead.)

It’s how Kanigher would have wanted it.