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Re: CNN reports: Murphy fiasco worse than thought?

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Subject: Re: CNN reports: Murphy fiasco worse than thought?
From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:09:08 +1100
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Quoting Tim Williams <tijawi@yahoo.com>:

> Scott Hartman wrote:
> 
> > Read it carefully again if you have to...
> > 
> > No one should _ever_ take bones from pubic lands...for any
> > reason.
>
> 
> Wise words, Scott.  This issue goes all the way back to beginnings of
> dinosaur paleontology, when Richard Brookes (1763) described a partial
> megalosaur thighbone as "Scrotum humanum".  
> 
> It was a truly seminal piece of work, I have to say.

How long have you been waiting to use that gem, I wonder? :)

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