Bones
Bones noun - A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
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- Taken to its logical extreme in 2001: A Space Odyssey: The dawn of man begins when apes figure out how to use bones as weapons and kill creatures.
Source: A Real Man Is a Killer -
Bittersweet Ending Body Horror: The Monster Generation, which includes a woman with a spider for a head and a man whose bones grew too fast for his muscles to keep up with.
Source: Comicbook / Earth X -
Arbitrary Skepticism: Andre Fernandez a man who can dislocate the bones in his spine found it impossible that Kichi could dislocate the bones in his shoulder.
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