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Re: BLOW TO MORAG THE MONSTER HUNTERS [joke -- mostly.]
From a forwarded article by the Press Association:
> Mysterious bones found 60ft down in Loch Morar, northern Scotland,
> came from a deer, a biologist has determined....... at least it may
> have been her lunch. The bones were found by subaqua diver Cameron
> Turner, 27, from Darlington, Co Durham, during an expedition to the
> remote 1,077ft deep loch. "But the only reason that they could have
> been so deep in the water is if they are the remains of Morag's
> dinner."
It is a sad reflection of our times that a deer is thought to be a
non-existent monster, and then to be its dinner! There are a lot of
these mad folk who rush about the Scottish lochs with vast amounts of
funding. After all, everyone knows there is only one monster, and
that is Nessie... 8*)
Neil
(from Scotland)
Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
GLASGOW
Scotland
G12 8QQ
Scotland/UK
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk
Museum web site:- http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/
Personal web site:- http://www.gla.ac.uk/~gxha14/
'Man must surely have become an immensely worse animal
than his teeth show him to have been designed for'
Hugh Miller (Cruise of the Betsey - 1858)