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Dinosaur steve1/27/2024 I picked up a T-rex and thought, "This could be the main motion-it certainly is a definite 'thing'-and then we could use the dimetrodon for the amendment, another 'thing,' and show that the dimetrodon blocks the forward progress of the T-rex. The movie was very popular at that time, and our house had lots of these creatures under foot. I was mulling over how to get this idea across when my eye fell on some Jurassic Park dinosaurs, belonging to my 9-year-old son, Steve. Once a group has made a main motion and started discussing it, they have to dispose of it in some way-to adopt it, to defeat it, to send it off to a committee-but they can't just abandon it. One concept that came to me was the realization that a "motion" is not just a word, it is a thing. But I wasn't sure how to do that without boring them silly. As I struggled through it, and thought about procedure during board meetings, I learned a bit more, and wanted to share it with the board of directors. (I was a Russian-to-English translator at that time.) I wanted to do a good job, so I had started reading Robert's Rules of Order, and found it a pretty daunting book. It goes back to 1999, when I became president of the American Translators Association. ![]() ![]() People often ask me how the dinosaurs became a part of Jurassic Parliament. ![]() Ann Macfarlane explains how it all began.
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