ah Bill thanks but I still have the scars!! On 26/02/2020 09:21, Bill Wootton wrote: > Ah yes, these young things, Patrick, have to be shown some evidence it > seems. Mind you note that there never really was a sabre-toothed tiger, so > S Fry assured us on QI some time back. > > Wikipedia has this to say: > Smilodon is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. It > is one of the most famous prehistoric mammals, and the best known > saber-toothed cat. Although commonly known as the saber-toothed tiger, it > was not closely related to the tiger or other modern cats. > > Bill > > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 8:06 pm, Patrick McManus < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> D.O.B >> >> when asked >> at the hospital >> ticking boxes >> for his date >> of birth >> there was >> some scepticism >> even doubt >> about his answer >> until he shyly >> showed them >> the >> Sabre Tooth Tiger’s >> ragged bight scars >> on his arm >> and then >> also the >> Woolly Mammoth’s >> grisly goring to >> his thigh >> >> >> pmcmanus >> s610 >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >> > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1