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Ordered these for my business :)

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Why do you think?

Maryssa was upset earlier today, because she got a sore neck, from jerking back suddenly when Nicolas kicked the ball and accidentally sent it towards her face. Gabriel wanted to know why she was grumpy, or some other thing. "WHY DO YOU THINK!!!"  She replied, annoyed. "Why do I think?"  Mused Gabriel, "Because I like to think."

The truth comes out...

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... we're actually a species of dinosaur . Barilium is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur which was first described as a species of Iguanodon ( I. dawsoni ) by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the specific epithet honouring the discoverer Charles Dawson. In 2010 it was reclassified as a separate genus by David Norman. The generic name Barilium is derived from Greek barys , "heavy", and Latin ilium. Later in 2010, Kenneth Carpenter and Yusuke Ishida independently assigned it to the new genus Torilion , which is thus a junior objective synonym of Barilium . It is known from two partial skeletons found near St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex England from the middle Valanginian Lower Cretaceous Wadhurst Clay. Lydekker based the species on the syntype series BMNH R798, 798a, 803-805, 806, 798b, 802, 802a and 799-801. Norman chose NHMUK R 798 and R802, a dorsal vertebra and a left ilium, as the lectotype. A contemporary of Hypselospinus (also once thought to be a species of Igua...