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We give you some lion-skull bones, you give us a 1.5 million-year-old hominid boy skeleton. Deal? That's what's in the works — maybe — for the Field Museum and the National Museums of Kenya, according to the Sun Times.
The Field Museum is home to the skulls and stuffed skins of "the Man-Eaters Of Tsavo," two lions who killed and ate at least 140 railroad workers in 1898 in Tsavo, Kenya. Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson shot them and kept their pelts, which he sold to the Field Museum in 1924 for $5,000, but the skins were in shoddy shape. That's why their taxidermied bodies are smaller than their real bodies.
Field Museum prez John McCarter told the Sun Times that the lions are "too fragile" to be repatriated. Just us, or is staring into the face of a zombie lion a great way never to sleep again? Shudder.
Instead of the stuffed lions, folks at the Field are considering sending the skulls, which, while cool, still don't have the same zip as the (creepy) physical recreations. In exchange, Kenya would lend us Turkana Boy, the oldest and most complete known Homo erectus skeleton, one of the most important discoveries ever in paleoanthropology.
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i want the lions. and the gorilla.
and godamnit we need a full size blue whale recreation like the american museum in new york.
also rachel, good to have you back. give chuck a bottle of wine and a vicodin.
i meant in the chill out way, not kill himself way.
sorry about that. that guy is the best dude on here save tankboy. no homo.
Clearly Val Kilmer needs to be brought in to sort this out.
Ghost in the Darkness? Anyone?
o.k. Again, I have to eat my words.
When O’Bama went to Africa, I got into a heated argument (sounds hard to believe right?), with some friends about Barack O’Bama, who I said
has done about as much for urban America as he as done for Africa.
I was wrong. He has done more for Africa
I can see starving African kids wearing the following T shirts " Barack O'Bama came to visit and all we got were some old lion skulls"
My apologies.
Um, OBAMA is all one word. It isn't like Irish or something. Jesus. How can you say anything about his policies if you can't spell his name correctly?
#6, if you register, you'll be able to magically interpret Spook's posts.
I would explain why Spook uses "O'Bama", but I'm sure his inevitable explanation will be oh-so-much more entertaining.
@the new guest:
You are just making the rounds today, Ron Paul, here.
I have a registered name, but I don't like to use it. It makes me feel EXPOSED.
I know, I'm milking the joy of mocking the whole registration thing until the fun wears off. Which was about 5 minutes ago.
Carry on.
they look cute. i'm a sucker for the big cats. but 140 people? were they hungry or super pissed? or both!?
Hey
The new guest number 2
Congrates!
Now that you have finally registered, I can share the the O'Bama secrete.Actually O'Bama
has always used O'Bama untill he decided
he gave up "passing" six years ago to appeal to a certain segment of the "ommunity"
But when he's back in the 19th ward, on the golf
course, or the "members only club" its O'Bama
But don't tell this to guest 6 untill she/he registers!
See, I told you.