2004: Top (Archaeological) Finds On Bolivian Highlands

Helsinki University ^ | 11-7-2004

[SunkenCiv]

There was a Rabbi who was shipwrecked on an island. He knew that there was no way he could get off so he decided to make the best of it.

One day in his exploration of the island he came across an interesting tribe of people. They devised some kind of communication and he found out they called themselves Trids. He asked if he could join the tribe. The Trids said yes. So the Rabbi did everything that the Trids did.

One day about a month after the Rabbi joined the Trids, there was a loud trumpet sounding. The Trids all lined up and started walking up the hill. The Rabbi joined them thinking it was some religious ceremony. The Trids stopped on top of a cliff by the sea. They were in a straight line. The Rabbi followed. Then a giant came out of the woods and began to kick each Trid off the cliff. The giant passed the Rabbi and continued to kicked the Trids off the cliff. When the Giant was finished, the Rabbi went to the Giant and asked why he didn't get kicked off. The Giant replied, "Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids!"

[SunkenCiv]

my pleasure

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Chiapetish.....

[CitadelArmyJag]

Did they find Che Guevara's rotting ass up there? Viva la Revolucion! haha, stupid communist ideologue...

[ASA Vet]

I first heard that one in 1959.
It wasn't funny then either.
boo hiss, someone get the hook!

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, it was either that, or "let your Pages do the walking through the Yellow Fingers"... ;')

[Rebelbase]

~Groan~

[SunkenCiv]

...the entourage hadn't ridden a mile out of Camelot before Sir Lancelot could be seen giving pursuit on his galloping horse, shouting, "King Arthur! King Arthur! You left me the wrong key!"

[blam]

"Rabbi is a Jewish preacher at a synagogue. What did he really mean?

I assumed he meant Jewish. I believe the Olmecs were around before there were people who were identified as Jews.

[I_dmc]

Kinda makes ya think about 12 tribes being scattered to the four corners of the Earth, don't it?

[farmfriend]

ping

[Carry_Okie]

Wow.

[SunkenCiv]

No, and it was ten tribes, not twelve.

[Publius6961]

BUMP

[Cronos]

Pretty obviously looks like what we would consider Peruvian -- the long nose, high cheekbones etc. are what you'd see in Spanish conquistador paintings from the 16th century.

[Cronos]

looks kinda like a Zen Buddha ;-P

[Cronos]

Well, you look at Jews from Yemen, from Ethiopia, from India and from Europe -- they all look different, even if they have the same Judaic blood.

[Cronos]

No, and it was ten tribes, not twelve.

well.... the 12 tribes were:

1. Southern Kingdom: judah, SImeon, Benjamin (and to some extent Levi)
2. The northern kingdom: Manasseh, Ephraim, Isaacher, Dan, Naphthali, Reuben, Gad, Zebulun, Asher (and to some extent Levi).
   
   So, the lost tribes would be numbering 9 (or 8 if you say that Manasseh and Ephraim, both beind descended from Joseph should be one tribe, just as those descended from Dan were one tribe)

[blam]

"Pretty obviously looks like what we would consider Peruvian -- the long nose, high cheekbones etc. are what you'd see in Spanish conquistador paintings from the 16th century."

Chapapoyas or related to them maybe?

[Cronos]

Chapapoyas or related to them maybe?

Apologies -- I don't know about the different tribes in South America