This is Throwback Thursday #82.  In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general.  If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com.  Thanks!

Ogden Nash‘s poem “Fossils” is our throwback post for this week.  Known for his light style of prose, Nash (1902 – 1971) was an Ameican poet who used pun-like rhyming in his work.  Sometimes, he even misspelled words for effect. He published numerous collections of poems.  During the early and middle 20th century, he wrote many pieces that were used in clever advertisements.

This poem reminds one of the movie “A Night at the Museum”.  Enjoy!

Fossils by Ogden Nash

At midnight in the museum hall
The fossils gathered for a ball
There were no drums or saxophones,
But just the clatter of their bones,
A rolling, rattling, carefree circus
Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.
Pterodactyls and brontosauruses
Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.
Amid the mastodontic wassail
I caught the eye of one small fossil.
“Cheer up, sad world,” he said, and winked-
“It’s kind of fun to be extinct.”