Of course it didn't, since that was not the intent of my comment. But if illuminating the question of hybrids is, as you suggest, a requisite for commenting on this post, please help me understand how your Ad Hominem Abusive claims of pedantry and failure of imagination have contributed to the discussion.

Here's my view – it's possible, but nothing produced yet strongly suggests that hybridization occurred with any regularity. The evidence to the contrary, on the other hand, is considerable. Neanderthals and moderns coexisted for some time in the Levant, but the former disappear almost immediately with the development by moderns (i.e., modern humans) of Upper Paleolithic technology. The subsequent spread of moderns into Europe also coincides with an immediate and rapid decline in Neanderthal sites. While there were several thousand years of overlap in Europe as a whole from the time moderns first entered Europe until the last Neanderthal is recorded, the shift from Mousterian to Upper Paleolithic at individual sites occurs rather abruptly with no intermixing of cultural artifacts. This pattern is seen so consistently across sites that whatever contact there was between Neanderthals and moderns in Europe could not have been prolonged. Further, significant differences in skeletal morphology, as well as the substantial cultural, behavioral, and cognitive differences mentioned by Mike above, strongly suggest specific distinction between Neanderthals and moderns. This makes the production of successful hybrids even more implausible, an assumption that none of the recent molecular work has effectively challenged.

I'm sure that whatever encounters there were between Neanderthals and moderns were by and large not pleasant ones. Considering our own well-documented history of waging war against and enslaving members of our own species, it's hard to imagine that moderns were any less ruthless in their treatment of the cognitively handicapped Neanderthals. The only "intermixing" I can even imagine is the ambush of Neanderthal camps by moderns, who killed the males and captured the females for carnal recreation. If, as the morphological and cultural evidence so strongly suggest, Neanderthals and moderns were specifically distinct, then no significant number of viable offspring could result from such a scenario. Even if the two were only subspecifically distinct and able to produce viable hybrids, it seems highly unlikely that such offspring would receive the level of nurturing required to reach reproductive adulthood.

But, that's just my opinion.