"Ryan Lankford" <ryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> LOL!!! Alex...since when have you taken an interest in what happens
> in Iowa?
Since that little pizza ***** Rusty showed up in ia.talk.misc and started
spouting off in there. By the way, his record-setting BI and abuse of
MediaCom services aside, I believe you might be interested in a response
where he challenges Robert Buchanan to a fight. Most amusing and
definitely
classic in its kookery.
>
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:37:05 -0500, "A. Cain" <noemail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"I P Seldom" <BashfulBladder@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:%hMXb.318270$xy6.1543028@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Horace Brownbag? wrote:
> >>
> >> > I ran across this story.....
> >> >
> >> > http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/12/artifacts040112
> >> >
> >> > The ice up north is melting faster than it's being created, and
long
> >> > lost, or disgarded remnants from the lands original inhabitants.
> >> >
> >> > ...kind of a primetime to conduct this gathering as later maybe too
> >> > late.
> >> >
> >> > Anyway,...
> >> >
> >> > I found this little bit interesting.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > <quote>
> >> >
> >> > Yukon researcher Greg Hare keeps one of the last field season's
most
> >> > fragile treasures - an ornately sewn, small leather bag - in a
small
> >> > plastic tub. It was found frozen in a bed of rocks and muck, below
one
> >> > of the high mountain ice patches.
> >> >
> >> > "To find worked leather, you know it's very rare to find something
> >> > like this in Canadian archaeology," he says. "We just got the radio
> >> > carbon dates back and it's 1,400 years old."
> >> >
> >> > <end of quote>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > It looked like a wadded up wet brown paper bag, but when this quy
> >> > pointed out the examples I began to appreciate the quality and care
> >> > that must have gone into the creation of this what must have been a
> >> > prized possession in those days. It must have been a shame to loose
> >> > it. Archeologically, I guess, it was a great find. A snapshot in
> >> > the life of and early North American resident, as it had remained
> >> > undisturbed since the day it was ostensibly lost.
> >> >
> >> > Now, I was just wondering...if this bag belonged to a guy living in
a
> >> > whole different environment, and having a wholly differnent life,
did
> >> > he walk around scratching his head saying, "Damn, where in the
helllll
> >> > did I put my bag?...I know it's gotta be here....somewhere."
> >>
> >> Okay, you posted this and then replied to it three times, and you
didn't
> >> correct your typo.
> >
> >
> >Yet one day later you spam the **** out of Usenet by advertising a
website
> >over 70 times in at least five different newsgroups, you hypocrite.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> But I digress.
> >> I would be willing to bet he did, indeed, wander around looking for
the
> >> aforementioned bag.
> >> Funny post.
> >> Rusty
> >
> >
>
> --
> Ryan Lankford
>
> "Donkeys can talk, people can fly, and a man named Jesus lives in the
Sky!"
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