Some Wish This Blag Would Do The Same

Why has the Dodo become the poster child for extinct species?

Probably because of how much fun it is to say Dodo.  Especially if you say it like the Dodo at the 4:21 mark of This Famous Cartoon.  

Well, I found it curious that when it comes to all of the extinct species in the world, whenever people talk about extinction or the end of something, we always say that it's "Going the way of the Dodo."  What did the Dodo ever do that was more important than the Tahitian Red-Billed Rail?  Nobody remembers the poor Bourbon-Crested Starling, but it's just as gone as the Dodo.  Also, it was much cuter...I mean seriously....Dodos were pretty ugly, and they had that foot thing going on.  

So, next time something comes to an end, I think instead of further propagating the myth that the Dodo bird is the most important of the extinct species, we should say that the thing we're talking about has gone the way of the Broad-Faced Potoroo.  It's just as fun to say, plus it will educate people, because then they'll go off to look up what a Broad-Faced Potoroo is.  Win-Win!