"DINOSAUR DINNER"

(A comedy sketch for children about what dinosaurs have for dinner)

CHARACTERS
Professor J.J. McFoozle
Assistant
Madame Digup (and helper)
Rodger Rockface (and helper)
Colonel Catchalive (and helper)
Dinosaur

SCENE: The professor's study at Dinosaur Museum

Professor: "I am Professor J.J. McFoozle. I know all there is to know about dinosaurs."

"I can identify a dinosaur just by looking at a single bone."
Assistant: "Have you ever been foozled, Mc Foozle?"
Professor: "Never! Nobody can foozle Mc Foozle."
Assistant: "Here come some explorers - they seem to have a bone to identify."
Enter MADAME DIGUP and HELPER

Digup: "Howdy, Professor McFoozle - ever been foozled?"
Professor: "Never! Nobody can foozle McFoozle."
Hands over a small bone
Professor: (measuring the bone with a ruler)
"Ah - let me see - it's six inches long and one inch wide. Hmm - of course. This is the little toe of the left paw of a GALLIMIMUS*."
Digup: "Galli - what?"
Professor: "Gallimimus, of course - the fastest dinosaur that ever lived. Top speed of sixty miles per hour."
Digup: 'Well if these Galli-things could run so fast and never get caught, how come they became extinct?"
Professor: "They all died out by banging into trees during an eclipse of the sun." (Exasperated) "Good day to you, Madame Digup."
Digup bows to Professor; exit DIGUP and HELPER
Enter RODGER ROCKFACE and HELPER

Rockface: "Greetings McFoozle - foozle - ever been foozled?"
Professor: "Never! Nobody foozles McFoozle."
Rockface: (handing over a large egg) "I am Rodger Rockface. Look at that egg, Professor. "We dug it up in our dig in Patagonia. What do you think it is?"
Professor: (measuring the egg with a ruler) "Why, it's twelve inches long and nine inches wide. Hmm - tricky one this. Of course - of course - this is a perfect specimen of a VELOCIRAPTOR* egg"
Rockface: (old and a little deaf) "Lossy what? You mean a Loch Ness Monster? I've always wanted to find one of their eggs. Will it hatch out?"
Professor: "No! No! Double times no! It's a hundred million years old. It's a Velociraptor's egg. The Velociraptors were the smartest dinosaurs that ever lived."
Rockface: "You mean they were quick-witted, like me?"
Professor: "Not exactly. They had very keen eyes. The Velociraptors could see an enemy ten miles away."
Rockface: "Hmm. If they could see danger from so far away, how come they became

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