Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 11:39 GMT
"and they had cretin children."
I think we've got a settlement of cretins here in Scunthorpe. Is it something to do with the three McDonalds, two Burger Kings and two KFCs in this ugly town? I think we should be told.
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 11:39 GMT
"The dwarf cretins in Europe have just the same structural rotation of the arm bone."
That's no way to talk about Robin Cook!
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 12:40 GMT
You sure they weren't looking at the skeletal remains of the crims we shipped over to Oz?
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 16:31 GMT
Mr Coward deconstructs their logic forensically, succinctly, and humorously (as in funny, but not as in bone). Maybe the Wizards should practise their act on dinosaurs first?
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 16:31 GMT
Too bad we only have the one skeleton. Maybe with a bit more research more will be found, and then the evidence can be properly analyzed.
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 16:31 GMT
Given the number of religious nuts who have been trying to disprove that they were a different species (because it disproves the bible or something), how can we tell these guys aren't from the same? They don't exactly use the strongest evidence.
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 17:02 GMT
I wonder if we'll ever know.
Coat please. No, not that one. I'm only three foot tall.
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 23:30 GMT
Binomial names always have a capital letter for the first part (genus) and lower case for the second part (species), i.e. Homo floresiensis, not Homo Floresiensis. At least you put it in italics, which, thanks to your completely useless markup-free comment editor, I am unable to do. Oh no, now I'll have to flame myself... AIEEEEE!
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 23:30 GMT
...that second breakfast and elevensies aren't as appetizing when all you've got are bamboo and tubers.
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 23:30 GMT
Too bad the politics there in Indonesia is precluding research... Although I've heard they had more skeletons in the works...
Anyway, you got quite close, Lester! Kudos for italicizing the name Homo floresiensis. Minus points for capitalizing floresiensis.
PH because she likes the little ones. AND the story has to do with cretins.
Posted Wednesday 5th March 2008 23:30 GMT
So where are the skeletons of the parents? Surely the fact that the only bones found were those of the alleged 'cretins' would point to the fact that there were onlt 'cretins' there?
Posted Thursday 6th March 2008 00:59 GMT
Bamboo and tubers ?! They had it easy, when I were an Indonesian dwarf cretin all I had to eat were tic-tacs and a fisherman's friend. I remember when all this were very very tall grass you know.
Posted Thursday 6th March 2008 06:31 GMT
Ship wrecked Cretins perhaps.
I bet one of them was fat, one was thin, one was rich, etc...
Posted Friday 7th March 2008 18:43 GMT
What's potatoes, precious?
Poe-Tay-Toes? Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew...
I think they'd have been ok with the tubers alright...
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