Word on the street's that Lucy dated Keith Richards for a few months, before leaving him for a higher-order hominid (who she said looked younger and lacked a low, sloping brow ridge.)
Posted on 08/06/2007 7:10:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Word on the street's that Lucy dated Keith Richards for a few months, before leaving him for a higher-order hominid (who she said looked younger and lacked a low, sloping brow ridge.)
Most of the museums around here are not publicly funded, but supported by foundations, wealthy donors, and members who get to see some of the good stuff. Also, if you volunteer, you may get to see a lot of good stuff.
We saw the replica of Lucy at the Field Museum in Chicago. Did you know they say she is four-hundred and sixty-two trillion years old - Amazing!
Why ‘o Why did it have to stop in Houston first!!!
Don’t they know Al-Qaeda looks for soft target opportunities like his!!!
Geesh! ;-)
wasn’t ‘Lucy’ determined to be a hoax?
No. That is a creationist lie.
The complete story can be found in Lucy's Knee Joint: A Case Study in Creationists' Willingness to Admit their Errors, by Jim Lippard.
Yes, I was there. And yes, you sound like one of the suckers I was referring to. The most extreme example I have seen was a room in a Dutch museum that displayed mememtos of a performance. Thanks for paying for it. Sorry you missed it.
They are funded by the public through tax deductions. The art world has gotten so elitist, though, that there is a huge disconnect between artist, critic, and public.
If you actually saw those rock paintings in person I envy you. I have seen many others, but not those.
And yes, you sound like one of the suckers I was referring to.
Actually in my field I am one of the ones in the back rooms. Its not all its cracked up to be after a few weeks.
Please, what law would they be breaking? They can do and say what ever they want and no crime will have been committed.
The question is, will Americans get to see the REAL fossil remains?
Not a lawyer, but I am fairly certain that if you make false claims about something you are selling, it is fraud.
I don’t know what back rooms you frequent. I did three degrees in art history. Very old works of art have only recently developed allergies to people, accoding to preservationists. How did those cave paintings survive tens of thousands of years without them? /s
Archaeology/physical anthropology (evolution, osteology, etc.)
I did three degrees in art history. Very old works of art have only recently developed allergies to people, accoding to preservationists. How did those cave paintings survive tens of thousands of years without them? /s
The truly old ones were sealed off from the outside world.
Oh, that Lucy ... never mind. ;)
To each his own. I much prefer beautiful paintings to old bones. :)
She's got some 'splainin' to do.
I have done seminal work in both!
While I certainly appreciate ancient artwork, human bones from the distant past are truly magnificent!
I was working with a skeletal collection today--people who died hundreds or more likely thousands of years ago, and I spent the time carefully listening to what they were trying to tell me. I was trying to determine how many individuals there were, whether they were old or young, male or female, and what their individual stories were--some 2,000 or 3,000 years ago.
This is one of the things I was trained for; I have been doing it for many years and its like nothing else I have ever done.
Art is nice, but I was dealing directly with the people who created art. I was learning their stories directly, unfiltered by the time between us.
Yes, to each his own.
I once made a pilgrimage, of sorts, with a car full of Freshmen to hear a Leakey about the time Lucy was discovered. That’s amazing stuf. However, if he had said the bones were talking to him.... I think parents might have thought I had endangered their kids.
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