I gave him the silent nod of approval. He looked at me puzzled for a while, then smiled back nervously. It’s like that thing when you honk your horn at a car that looks exactly like yours, in a country lane - especially if you’re driving something classic like a Morris Minor. Or you give a little wave to a fellow rambler, or caravanner. Just a little nod of solidarity; a classy but subtle acknowledgement of mutual appreciation.
And what appreciation! Dinosaurs and tea! Two brilliant things separated by millions of years of discovery, brought together in a Venn diagram with a pun on a t-shirt, and two random guys with the same sense of humour.
And it would have been fine... except I wasn’t wearing a matching dinosaur t-shirt. I was just wearing a jumper. There was no time to say “Nice t-shirt” and I’m definitely not a famous palaeontologist. So what I’ve actually done there, is just nod knowingly (and in hindsight, quite creepily) at... some guy.
Well. I still think that was a cool t-shirt. It was sort of Jurassic Park style. I don’t go in for comedy t-shirts (I’m not a software developer, well, not really)... but that one was about right for me. I must remember to put it on my Christmas list.
The thing is though, T-Rexes had really tiny arms. There’s no way one could have drunk a cup of tea. Imagine! They’d have to slurp the tea on the ground, rather like a chicken drinking from a thimble. It would have been a very frustrating thing. It’s a little far-fetched. I mean a compsognathus, maybe could grasp a cup, maybe a velociraptor, but not a Tyrannosaur.
Then again, I don’t think ‘Vecoffeeraptor’ is anywhere near as good a pun for a cool t-shirt. And it has to make sense or all you’ll get is random, puzzled looks from strangers. And no-one needs that.
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