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Australian poet, Dinosaur, Dodo, Mauritius, Neanderthal, Passenger pigeon, poem, poetry, Rhyming couplets, thylacine
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The Thylacine would snatch a pullet โ
Soon the last one took a bullet.
On an island named Mauritius,
Lived the Dodo โ so delicious.
The passengers that blackened skies
Were baked in lots of pigeon pies.
The Kingpin was the Dinosaur;
Until there came a meteor.
Neanderthals died out we know.
Their IQs were a bit too low.
โ D.N. OโBrien
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I think Neanderthals were just too misanthropic to be organized into large groups. If thatโs dumb, then being dumb is rooted in truth.
True, and I guess there was some interbreeding โ those Neanderthal women may have been ugly, but if you couldn’t get the lid off a jar…..