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Humor: Signs that your young child is obsessed with dinosaurs

You know your child is obsessed with dinosaurs if he can provide you with the name of a dinosaur for every letter of the alphabet.

. . . or if he can say "parasaurolophus" three times, really fast, without effort.

. . . or if he has every line of every Jurassic Park film memorized, right down to each character's exact pauses and inflections.

. . . or if he woke you up early on Christmas morning by chipping away at a dinosaur fossil from one of those excavation kits that come complete with safety glasses, a small hammer, and a chisel.

. . . or if he can rattle off a slew of facts for any dinosaur you are able to pronounce (and all of those that he needs to correct you on trying to pronounce!)

. . . or if, while trying to write a humorous piece about your son's obsession with dinosaurs, you find yourself continually interrupted by this son, portraying a perfect velociraptor, "hunting" you from the adjoining room, attacking you from behind as you type the last sentence of your . . .

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