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No seafood for early Easter Islanders -- they ate rats
NBC News ^
| 9-26-2013
| Owen Jarus
Posted on 09/27/2013 3:48:08 AM PDT by Renfield
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posted on
09/27/2013 3:48:09 AM PDT
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Renfield
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/27/2013 3:48:23 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
I doubt rats or any mammals are indigenous to the Island. They probably came with the original inhabitants, and killed off any large birds, leaving only the dang rats to eat.
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posted on
09/27/2013 3:54:13 AM PDT
by
RadiationRomeo
(Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
To: Renfield
“What’s for dinner tonight, mom?”
“Rat soup.”
“Aw, not again. What about tomorrow?”
“Rat on a stick.”
To: mkmensinger
Mother, there’s a dead bishop on the landing!
Which diocese? Etc...
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posted on
09/27/2013 4:08:20 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Renfield
They forgot to bring cats when they settled on the island. Had they brought cats to eat the rats, they might have had a more varied and better diet because the rats wouldn’t have wiped out any other kind of animal on the island.
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posted on
09/27/2013 4:16:42 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: Renfield
Let’s guess again....41 skeletons...found as a group...did they actually eat the rats or had rats become the occupiers of the dead....aka....a rat nest.
To: Renfield
To: Renfield
Headline is terribly misleading
To: exDemMom
>> Had they brought cats to eat the rats, they might have had a more varied and better diet
Yeah, with all those well-fed cats running wild, they could’ve invented Taco Bell! :-)
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posted on
09/27/2013 4:31:04 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
09/27/2013 4:50:27 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: Renfield
I'll 'ave one slice of strawberry tart with not so much rat in it.
-- Monty Python
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posted on
09/27/2013 4:59:05 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: mkmensinger
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posted on
09/27/2013 5:09:08 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
To: Renfield
Tastes like venison! (subtle reference to the movie KING RAT)
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:40:57 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Renfield.
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posted on
09/27/2013 4:41:16 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: mkmensinger
Rat on a stick.
Coming soon to a state fair food vendor. Dipped in batter, and deep fried...yum yum.
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posted on
09/27/2013 4:43:35 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: SunkenCiv; Renfield
I worked with a guy from Easter Island. Everyday at lunch he would open his lunchbox and say Dang it! Rat again. Finally someone asked him why he didn’t have his wife fix something else. My wife? he says. I make my own lunch.
To: Sacajaweau
Lets guess again....41 skeletons...found as a group...did they actually eat the rats or had rats become the occupiers of the dead....aka....a rat nest.Or again: They were a group of prisoners who had nothing else to eat.
These "scientists" have a remarkable lack of imagination.
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posted on
09/27/2013 7:42:42 PM PDT
by
Steve0113
(I miss having a president who loves this country.)
To: Renfield
So they built enormous statues with glowing white coral eyes looking out across the vast emptiness asking...
“Where are all the fish?”
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posted on
09/28/2013 2:12:32 AM PDT
by
djf
(Global warming is turning out to be a bunch of hot air!!)
To: Renfield
Moai statues, most of which originally faced inlandWhat are we to make of that?
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posted on
09/28/2013 8:14:56 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
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