Raptors

a.) birds of prey, like hawks, eagles, owls, highly sensitive to DDT. b.) Toronto pro basketball franchise named after animated Stephen Spielberg movie characters. Ten years from now, they’ll have to be renamed when some archaeologist discovers that velociraptors actually lived on cream cheese and were as docile as barnyard chickens. (This is better than the Vancouver Grizzlies, who were a marketing error: wrong name and the wrong city now that the Hong Kong money is evaporating.

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