It has come to my attention that paleontologistshave been sadly neglected in the literature, over the ages.
An ironic oversight, perhaps, but one I felt need to correct:
The Bone Man
Paleontologists are an amazing lot,
You have to admire those fossil guys;
Seldom included in poem or plot,
So dull, they rarely even socialise.
But when you stop to think of it
The thing they do is quite complex:
They take a toe-nail from a pit
And then reconstruct the whole T-Rex.
Somehow they know, with just one bone,
The shape of the remaining beast.
But they seldom disclose its favourite cologne,
A sign of respect for the deceased.
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© J Cosmo Newbery
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Paleontologists are an amazing lot,
You have to admire those fossil guys;
Seldom included in poem or plot,
So dull, they rarely even socialise.
But when you stop to think of it
The thing they do is quite complex:
They take a toe-nail from a pit
And then reconstruct the whole T-Rex.
Somehow they know, with just one bone,
The shape of the remaining beast.
But they seldom disclose its favourite cologne,
A sign of respect for the deceased.
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© J Cosmo Newbery
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What sort of cologne would a T-Rex where - something from Diddy?
ReplyDeleteMama Wheaton beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know who Diddy is though; I would have put my money on a Brut.
Old Spice.
ReplyDeleteBrut's good. Old Spice is probably better. Certainly prehistoric.
ReplyDeleteLee beat me to it, I was going to say Brut. Where do you get the inspiration J Cosmo?
ReplyDeleteLoved "They take a toe-nail from a pit/ And then reconstruct the whole T-Rex." So true. Brut is most apropos, but what about English Leather? (...the scent that always made me want to puke.) It's prehistoric, too. And you can smell it from a mile away... which was also true of T-Rex, I think.
ReplyDeleteI'm with all of you on the Old Spice way of thinking.
ReplyDeleteisn't there something out there called eau de lizard?
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