Posted on 03/08/2006 3:09:40 PM PST by xcamel
OK, You pick: Depiction by a renowned forensic scientist,
or hideous, androgenous, mix-mash cartoon, pandering to the unrelated Northwest Natives?
IMHO: Time should be ashamed. (not that it would ever happen, mind you.)
The book is not banned, just scarce.
Thats a great way of recycling!
Pigs die, human eat pigs, human dies, pigs eat human, pigs die, human eat pigs..
wow its a beautifull vision on 'being one with nature'.
And it will solve all burial issues!
You can even make humans into doggy biscuits, or even sell whole mummified arms and legs for the dogs to fetch and chew on! (good for their teeth)
I found this interesting.
Historical Review: Megadrought And Megadeath In 16th Century Mexico (Hemorragic Fever?)
"The epidemic of cocoliztli from 1545 to 1548 killed an estimated 5 million to 15 million people, or up to 80% of the native population of Mexico (Figure 1). In absolute and relative terms the 1545 epidemic was one of the worst demographic catastrophes in human history, approaching even the Black Death of bubonic plague, which killed approximately 25 million in western Europe from 1347 to 1351 or about 50% of the regional population."
There are some for sale here.
Coon also wrote "The Origin of Races"
Funny. When I was a kid, it was my job to feed/water the pigs. I was in the pen with them a lot. Had to really keep my eye on a couple of the sows though, though. They'd tag team me: one would get my attention while the other one would sneek up behind me and bite me on the butt. I'd turn to smack that one on the nose, and the other one would bite me on the butt. They thought it was great fun.
I've seen hogs chase down and eat a live chicken. Not a pretty sight.
We had a freezer that broke down, and we had to get rid of about 100 lbs of rather questionable pork. We cooked it through over a fire and threw it in the pig pen. They went from playful and friendly farm animals to extremely violent wild animals in the blink of an eye. I was horrified (9 years old). It took my Dad a week to convince me to get back in the pen to feed the pigs. I never looked at them the same after that.
I read something sometime back where a Japanese scientist was trying to prove the purity of the Japanese race vs the Ainu. What he found out is that the Ainu have not changed in a very, very, long time - while the Japanese are a mix of Ainu and Korean.
Needless to say, that didn't go over very well.
From one of my favorite movies, 'Snatch':
Brick Top: And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a ****head. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig ****, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
Ooooh!
I got *me* one....;D
Way back when I researched the book, all sorts of wretched epithets were hurled at him.
The guy is simply honest and clinically impartial.
Nowadays it seems that's a crime.
It'd work for me.
I think cemeteries are a waste of good land.
Burn me, bag me up and put me out with the trash or just leave me in the woods for the critters.
I won't 'be there' to care anyway.
Crows gotta eat same as worms....:]
*shudder*
Hope that doesn't ever come back this way again.
It's one or the other.
I have it packed away upstairs with about a bazillion other anthropology/archaeology/ley line/dolmen/stone circle/neolithic cultures types of books.
When it's light tomorrow I'll see if I can dig it up and check the title for sure.
It's a honkin' *big* old leather bound thing.
The guy is simply honest and clinically impartial.
Nowadays it seems that's a crime.
In grad school my major professor knew, and was heavily influenced by, Carleton Coon, and so I was exposed to his writings.
Highly recommended. The style is first half of last century; lots of data and a good, reasoned approach but not PC.
Did the sows have litters?
Ours usually did and only my grandfather would feed them.
He wouldn't let the grandkids or gramma near them.
The boars didn't get to live long enough to grow huge tusks since they became sausage every Thanksgiving day *but* I've been around old boars with 7" tusks.
They can be nasty.
Back when I was doing crafts for bikers the local stock sale guys would give me the tusks they'd cut off the hogs before they auctioned them.
I have some pretty cool ones stashed around here somewhere.
I used to have a nearly 2/3 of a circle tusk I kept on my keychain until I dropped the keychain and the tusk shattered on the concrete pavement.
Pigs are very, very clever.
You're fortunate that yours were apparently amiable, as well...:)
This guy understood the possibilities of pigs.....;]
The problem with using pigs is the large inedible bones.
Ya gotta have porcupines for that.
[hillbilly secrets]...;]
He was even-handedly "non-PC" with all the racial types.
I wasn't offended by the Irish bits so I have no idea why anyone else was offended by their particular chapters.
I found it fascinating.
Recently it's become fashionable to postulate that the Neanderthals did not "die out" but [genetically speaking] walk among us today.
This guy said that a nearly a century ago....without the benefit of mitochondrial [or any type of, really] DNA testing.
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