And even after we stop making Triceratops and Stegosaurus battle each other in the schoolyard sandbox, we still love our dinosaurs.
My sense of being a loner was reinforced in a schoolyard where the unconventional was perceived as just being fucking odd.
Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
In the current climate of cuts and austerity, drugs and violence are silly schoolyard crimes compared with massive corporate and individual tax avoidance.
Governments receiving official representations such as Saudi Arabia, where Mr Day appealed for clemency in the case of Mohamed Kohail, sentenced to beheading for killing a teenager in a 2007 schoolyard brawl will now know that Canada considers their justice system unfair.
The slang of social networks will also move from the schoolyard to the boardroom: it is only a matter of time before middle-aged managers talk about "poking" when planning marketing campaigns.Anything 2.0 Web 2.0 is a dull piece of jargon to describe the internet becoming a platform for interaction and collaboration.
We had arguments in schoolyard about what had happened, and then over the government's call for one minute's silence.
The September 11th attacks on America came ten days after she took charge, and her schoolyard became the scene of "very intense" arguments.
IN A schoolyard in a village on the dusty north China plain, martial artists drill children in the stylised kicks and punches of Plum Flower Boxing.
In a schoolyard a few score of boys, plus a pensioner who says he last held a gun 35 years ago, gather for three hours of training.
In Britain, some teachers use the Holocaust as a lesson against bullying, reducing Nazis to schoolyard thugs.
