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A '''cuckoo''' was something that was where it shouldn't be. The [[Seventh Doctor]] once called an extra-terrestrial [[fossil]] in the caves around the [[Lifton]] coast a "cuckoo [that needed to be pushed] out of the nest of human history", else [[Charles Darwin]]'s ''[[The Origin of the Species]]'' might never be written, since the fossil could not be integrated into Darwin's theory of [[evolution]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cuckoo (comic story)|Cuckoo]]'') | A '''cuckoo''' was something that was where it shouldn't be. The [[Seventh Doctor]] once called an extra-terrestrial [[fossil]] in the caves around the [[Lifton]] coast a "cuckoo [that needed to be pushed] out of the nest of human history", else [[Charles Darwin]]'s ''[[The Origin of the Species]]'' might never be written, since the fossil could not be integrated into Darwin's theory of [[evolution]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Cuckoo (comic story)|Cuckoo]]'') | ||
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Revision as of 16:30, 2 August 2022
This page should be merged.
It should be relocated at cuckoo because in this context, is not jargon, slang or a colloquialism; it is a reference to the bird, thus it should be merged into cuckoo.
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A cuckoo was something that was where it shouldn't be. The Seventh Doctor once called an extra-terrestrial fossil in the caves around the Lifton coast a "cuckoo [that needed to be pushed] out of the nest of human history", else Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species might never be written, since the fossil could not be integrated into Darwin's theory of evolution. (COMIC: Cuckoo)
