Isn’t “hapax legomenon” a medical term used to describe injuries sustained due to stepping on sharp-corners children’s construction toys in the dark??? 
Dan, yes. It is a traditional Klingon curse uttered on such occasions. (The offending child who failed to put his toys away is thereafter required to fulfill three dangerous quests before requesting re-admission to the clan. It is sort of a junior version of the Labours of Hercules.)
Not many people know about that. (In any case, the practice is banned in all other Federation territories.)
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I had read this article on ancients use of cassowary eggs and remembered this thread with fondness - I really enjoyed this discussion and at one point had gotten all excited about my hypothesis of ancient people domesticating ratites and migrating with them.
This is not quite that 
but I think is interesting nonetheless. So I’m plunking it here since the thread is still open and others find it interesting.
Cassowary burgers anyone?
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Interesting, but what does this have to do with the bible?
Where do you think Cassocks came from? 
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I can assure you from personal observation that cassowaries do not wear socks.
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“If I were a cassowary on the plains of Timbuktu, I would eat a missionary, cassock, bands, and hymn-book too.” Attributed to Samuel Wilberforce, Anglican Bishop of Oxford (1805 – 1873).
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This was also a little known 4th verse to the popular “Talk to the Animals” song from the movie “Dr. Doolittle.”
It didn’t test well in focus groups so it was lost on the cutting-room floor.
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As this thread is already digressing just a bit, this brings to mind the time my father asked me to return a book to the Unity church library for him. The book was about how to deal with your physical body while achieving spiritual enlightenment, and there was a whole chapter on the genitals in which one was encouraged to tell one’s genitals that they will not be left behind in the quest for enlightenment.
So, a week later, when I stopped laughing, that song came to mind.
If I could talk to the genitals,
learn their languages,
prattle with a prick in prickasee,
if I could gossip with a gonad,
lip-sync with the labia,
what a neat achievement it would be!
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Deuteronomy 22
6 “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; 7 you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days
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Biogeography note: there are no cassowaries in Mali, yet another example of the scientific inaccuracy of the church.
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I’m impressed that your expertise in avian phylogenetics extends to avian haberdashery.
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Oh yeah? Then how come they sell cassowary socks!
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