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Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It
FOXNews.com ^ | October 30, 2007

Posted on 10/30/2007 9:20:14 AM PDT by EveningStar

British marine biologists have found what may be the oldest living animal — that is, until they killed it...

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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To: EveningStar

Oops.


21 posted on 10/30/2007 9:31:51 AM PDT by tennteacher (Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: EveningStar

Idiotic and misleading headline.


22 posted on 10/30/2007 9:32:11 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: EveningStar

We ‘ad to find out ‘ow old it was. Th’ only way to do that was to kill the bugger.


23 posted on 10/30/2007 9:33:03 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Froufrou

They used to be a real danger....

“The Story of Ruben Clamzo & His Strange Daughter In The Key of A” explains it all.


24 posted on 10/30/2007 9:33:06 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: stinkerpot65

Funny, though. :)


25 posted on 10/30/2007 9:33:30 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I’ll take a rib.

Was it grilled or fried? Battered? Barbecue sauce?

H


26 posted on 10/30/2007 9:33:40 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor (How 'Bout Them Cowboys!!!)
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To: subterfuge

‘e’s not dead. ‘e’s just restin’. Pinin’ for the fjords, that one.


27 posted on 10/30/2007 9:39:09 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Islam ... If you can't join them, beat them.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps
oops...

Why do we say "oops"? Wouldn't that be plural? Shouldn't it just be "oop" for a single mistake and "oops" for multiple? Jus' sayin'...
28 posted on 10/30/2007 9:40:48 AM PDT by BJClinton (Don't taze me, bro!)
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29 posted on 10/30/2007 9:41:27 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: stinkerpot65
Idiotic and misleading headline.

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30 posted on 10/30/2007 9:41:54 AM PDT by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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To: SpinnerWebb
‘e’s not dead. ‘e’s just restin’. Pinin’ for the fjords, that one.

LOL!

31 posted on 10/30/2007 9:48:53 AM PDT by subterfuge (HILLARY IS: She who must not be Dismayed)
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To: EveningStar
"..cut through its shell, which made it more of an ex-clam, and counted its growth rings.."

Seems kind of harsh, Why didn't they just wait 'til it had a birthday and count the candles on the cake?

32 posted on 10/30/2007 9:56:49 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: JRios1968

I lol’d.

Oh, and so stolt.


33 posted on 10/30/2007 10:01:33 AM PDT by BJClinton (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: BJClinton
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34 posted on 10/30/2007 10:03:01 AM PDT by JRios1968 (Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
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To: EveningStar

No place is safe these days.


35 posted on 10/30/2007 10:09:07 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: EveningStar

“Its death is an unfortunate aspect of this work, but we hope to derive lots of information from it,”

Like what? How it tastes?


36 posted on 10/30/2007 10:10:23 AM PDT by commonguymd (Move it to the right)
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To: commonguymd

Are they sure it wasn’t bearded?


37 posted on 10/30/2007 10:15:35 AM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: samtheman
I just ordered a sign for our office with one of Einstein's famous quotes:

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called Research


38 posted on 10/30/2007 10:17:15 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: EveningStar

mmmmm... chowder!

39 posted on 10/30/2007 10:24:01 AM PDT by Tatze (I'm in a state of taglinelessness!)
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To: montyspython

40 posted on 10/30/2007 10:26:17 AM PDT by Tatze (I'm in a state of taglinelessness!)
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