Arnie

Arnie, can you hold on until help comes?

"Arnie, why did the Neanderthals become extinct?" "Matt, no one knows for sure. My own guess is that it might have been a terrible disease that wiped them out."

"Matt, did you know that Neanderthals had a larger cranium than modern humans?" "Arnie, were they smarter than us, then?" "Anthropologists don't know for sure..."

"Does a bigger brain mean being smarter, Arnie?" "Neurologists know that the amount of folding or wrinkling on the brain matters more than the mere size of it, Matt." "Yeah, many people have the wrong idea..."

"Matt, did you know at least nine different hominin species lived simultaneously on our Earth, hundreds of thousands of years ago?" "And we're the only ones to survive, Arnie?" "Yeah!"

"Arnie, I read Lobsang Rampa's books that said that different intelligent species were planted and weeded out on our Earth by so-called Gardeners and that on other planets, there are intelligent beings with different skin colours like green and purple, and some have more than two arms." "Do you believe that stuff, Matt?" "I'm not sure..."

"Erwin, Spanish and Italian are really similar, huh?" "Yes, Arnie. If you know one, it's easier to learn the other."