Mackerel snapper topic Mackerel snapper  was once a sectarian slur for Roman Catholics , originating in the United States in the 1850s. It referred to the Catholic discipline of Friday abstinence from red meat and poultry, for which fish was substituted.
Follow @TIMECulture. Admit it: you were pronouncing the word âSmaugâ â the name of the Hobbit dragon, the one whoâs in the subtitle of the upcoming movie installation â as âsmog.â.
The fossils represent a small-bodied and small-brained hominin, named Homo floresiensis, but better known as the Hobbit.. The position of these fossils on the human evolutionary tree remains unclear. In fact, since the 2004 discovery, there has been an unending series of controversies surrounding these specimens.igure 1: A map of island southeast Asia in the region of Flores and a photograph of the Liang Bua cave where the Homo floresiensis fossils were recovered.