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Pop-culture dinosaurs continue to roam the earth

No, it’s not a Traveling Wilburys concert. We’re talking actual creatures from the Jurassic Period (although, admittedly, that might also include Tom Petty and Bob Dylan). “Walking with Dinosaurs — The Live Experience” continues to roar at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon today through Sunday. This has us thinking. Pop culture is filled with examples of dinosaurs. Like penguin movies, we can’t get enough of those giant prehistoric lizards.

Pop culture is also filled with other types of dinosaurs, those icons who are well past their prime but refuse to retire. Here are 10 examples of both. “Jurassic Park”: We’ll start with an obvious one. When this movie, adapted from Michael Crichton’s 1990 book, hit screens in 1993, it was billed as a cautionary tale warning us that we better not mess with Mother Nature. But forget that. We just dug those cool dinosaurs. Imagine if there was a real dinosaur park … we’d be so there.

The Rolling Stones: Seriously, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are older than a triceratops, and only slightly less ugly. They’ve been that way since, what, 1982? They could retire any day now and we’d all be OK with that, secure in the knowledge that the Stones are one of the three best rock bands of all time. Yet they continue to play, touring as recently as this summer’s “A Bigger Bang” tour.

That tour was appropriately named since it seems like the Rolling Stones have been around since The Big Bang. Calvin & Hobbes: The best comic strip ever. In Calvin’s world, created by Bill Watterson, dinosaurs played an integral role. They were a source of amusement and escapism, not to mention they were gorgeously drawn. Watterson wrote in “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book,” “… for Calvin, dinosaurs are very, very real.

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