The Horned Lizard Conservation Society, a nonprofit that sponsors scientific research on the critters, started in 1991. Speaking at one of its first meetings was Wade Sherbrooke, the former director of the Southwest Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History in Arizona. He was moved by people’s passion about the creatures he’d studied for more than 40 years.
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“Some old rancher would get up and say, ‘We
had horny toads and we should have them again! Ice cream cones and horny toads, that’s what life’s all about!’” he recalled.
But the lizard’s decline,
he said, is just one tragic example of the damage humans have inflicted on this ever-warming planet.
Although the bar has been set remarkably low during some epochs (“Dearest, you’ve survived to produce seven more viable male heirs than my second wife”), society has always expected couples to use terms of endearment to grease the wheels of their relationships.
Posted : 2021-02-04 16:20 By Danny Tyree
Although the bar has been set remarkably low during some epochs ( Dearest, you ve survived to produce seven more viable male heirs than my second wife ), society has always expected couples to use terms of endearment to grease the wheels of their relationships.
I have it on good authority that the custom goes all the way back to Adam and Eve (or as he affectionately referred to her, McRib ). Of course, the sweet nothings were probably muttered through gritted teeth when Adam asked questions such as So, McRib, got any MORE reptile fruit peddlers you d like to introduce me to? or McRib, are you SURE you want to know if those fig leaves make you look fat?
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Valentine Dilemma: “Baby,” You’re Not the Greatest!
by Danny Tyree, February 3, 2021
Although the bar has been set remarkably low during some epochs ( Dearest, you ve survived to produce seven more viable male heirs than my second wife ), society has always expected couples to use terms of endearment to grease the wheels of their relationships.
I have it on good authority that the custom goes all the way back to Adam and Eve (or as he affectionately referred to her, McRib ). Of course, the sweet nothings were probably muttered through gritted teeth when Adam asked questions such as So, McRib, got any MORE reptile fruit peddlers you d like to introduce me to? or McRib, are you SURE you want to know if those fig leaves make you look fat?