Jurassic Lark, Part 4

Choose Your Battles, History, Museum, Stupid, USA | Right | October 20, 2024

I am in a tour group at a natural history museum. The guide has taken us through the dinosaur exhibit, including lots of model dinosaurs. One of the tourists on the group puts his hand up for a question.

Tourist: “You said dinosaurs died out before humans existed?”

Tour Guide: “Yes, long before. Millions of years.”

Tourist: “Then how do you all know what the dinosaurs were called?”

The tour guide pauses, most likely because he’s never been asked a question so stupid and no doubt he’s trying to find a diplomatic answer. The tourist takes this pause as a triumph and says smugly.

Tourist: “Stumped you, haven’t I? Can’t answer that, can you?”

Tour Guide: “Absolutely, sir, I do not have an answer to that particular question.”

That tourist continued the tour with an air of superiority the whole time.