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Researchers Find Potential 2,000-Year-Old Brain in Muddy Ditch

Posted December 15, 2008 8:23 AM

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In a muddy pit near the town of York in northern England, archaeologists have found a skull holding what they believe is the preserved remains of an "Iron Age brain." Here's how the noggin was first noticed: York Archaeological Trust dig team member Rachel Cubitt reached in [to the ditch] and, while she cleaned the soil-covered skull's outer surface, "she felt something move inside the cranium. Peering through the base of the skull, she spotted an unusual yellow substance". Scans later showed that the yellow mass was in the shape of a shrunken brain, according to a press release from the University of York.

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12/15/2008 3:58 PM

Damn! Now they have proof that I've lost my mind.

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12/15/2008 4:04 PM

Being found in a "muddy pit", I'll bet they weren't the brightest mind of their age...

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12/16/2008 6:08 AM

At last someone has found a "brain" in this crazy world!!!!!

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12/16/2008 6:48 AM

This person was probably sacrificed to appease the gods when the l climate changed. Much as we are about to do when we sacrifice our economies to appease the enviornmentalists high priests.

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12/16/2008 10:38 AM

Perhaps it is one of the Crystal Skulls, it just has not crystallized yet!

Leave it on a petri dish for a while then send it to HP for further analyses to see if it is a super computer! - I am sure it was at one time.

Sorry couldn't`t resist the fun.

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12/16/2008 2:31 PM

Note how those researchers CYA when they say Potential 2,000-Year-Old Brain? Just because it's small - really, really small - doesn't mean it's old. Those archeologists never commit to anything. They're always hedging. Ever wonder how they get that grant money? I do. Personally I think it's a 21st-Century Miracle. Like Dark Matter.

Anyway you look at it, this cat was a bloody Yorkshireman, for Pete's sake! (Have you ever wondered what in the world Pete has to do with exasperation? I have. I've always thought he was the nice chap who mans the Pearly Gates, but there may be more than one Pete).

You know how argumentative Yorkshiremen are. Folks say an Irishman wrote 101 Ways To Start A Fight but I know this is just heresay. He was a Yorkshireman, pure and simple. And why hasn't that brain rotted away. It was in a ditch, after all! Wanna know the Real Reason? Yorkshiremen are always pickled. You know what I mean.

Speaking of which, I'll wager a pint that what really happened is this cat got into a knock-down-drag-out fight with his Yorkshirewoman wench and lost his head. That's all.

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