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Did you ever hear the poem "Alligator Pie" when you were a kid?
"Alligator Pie, alligator pie,If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die.
Give away the green grass, give away the sky,
But don't give away my alligator pie!"
Forget alligator pie and alligator soup...what about an alligator penis?! Today's Friday Weird Science is up at Neurotic Physiology, where I am talking about the morphology and anatomy of the alligator shlong.
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Alligator stiffy, alligator stiffy,It turns out the way it works it really pretty spiffy!