Posted on 07/14/2019 6:27:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
When some people hear “mammoth,” money comes to mind. Local tour companies offer trips to the mammoth graveyards across the region’s Arctic frontier. Prospectors for mammoth parts—especially the tusks, known as ice ivory—have raced to collect remains.
Around 100 tons of mammoth tusks are legally mined in Yakutia each year, while illegal mining is estimated at twice that much, according to a report by TASS
“If ever a mammoth surfaces somewhere in the world, it will actually have Yakut roots,” said Mr. Fyodorov, proudly underscoring that his republic is mammoth central, the hereditary home of so many of these beasts.
To prevent ivory laundering, governments are expected to discuss the unusual step of listing the woolly mammoth as an endangered species, though it is long extinct.
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governments are expected to discuss the unusual step of listing the woolly mammoth as an endangered species, though it is long extinct.
Wow. Just wow.
Never seen the lyrics printed out before. How much money did that bring them?
This was the first American record to sell a million copies during the British Invasion.
“governments are expected to discuss the unusual step of listing the woolly mammoth as an endangered species, though it is long extinct.”
We definitely need more government to help us out .
Never seen the lyrics printed out before. How much money did that bring them?
Looking for the lyrics, I found this:
“Wooly Bully” was the band’s first and biggest hit. It became a worldwide success, selling three million copies and reaching No. 2 on the American Hot 100 chart on June 5–12, 1965, kept off the top by The Beach Boys’ “Help Me, Rhonda”[3] and The Supremes’ “Back in My Arms Again”.[4] It was the first American record to sell a million copies during the British Invasion ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooly_Bully
Being easily amused, I read the whole thing, and enjoyed it!!!
Always, my FRiend, always...
I have heard of a few endangered species that came back from the brink of extinction, like the trumpeteer swan and the American alligator. It’s a safe bet that if the mammoth gets put on the list, it won’t recover.
Is it?
Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs. Sam the Sham aka Dr. John recently died.
Probably not much. My uncle was an attorney for many of the phantom labels in the Sam Phillips' recording world in Memphis. Dear old Uncle was a sheister's sheister, yet even he was embarrassed at how the artists were sucked dry by layers and layers of production and management fees.
All those mounds of flash frozen mammoths, some with fresh food in their mouths and stomachs and no one ever asks the obvious questions....
Nothing naturally freezes that fast in nature or at least there has been no observable phenomena in our lifetimes that suddenly freezes whole herds of huge solid beasts. (There have been fast temperature drops where it is 90 plus degrees in the afternoon and below zero the next day.) Oh and then abruptly buried in mud and kept frozen in permafrost.
No one asks the obvious questions and no one dares make the obvious connections....
That’s pretty astounding, but the only obvious questions to me are, “How?,” and, “What the f... !?”
Is the obvious connection I’m supposed to make is that “God smiteth the mammoth or something?” Because then I’d have to change my obvious questions to, “Why?,” and, “What the f... !?”
Two Different artists and eras. 60s and 70s
Sam Salmudio a Texan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Sham
Dr. John Rebennack “The Night Tripper” From New Orleans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John
Why don’t you screw up your courage, and dare to ask the “obvious” question?
“It’s a safe bet that if the mammoth gets put on the list, it won’t recover.”
I am virtually certain that I will see a living woolly mammoth or a reasonable facsimile of one in my lifetime. And I’m pretty old.
Anyone ever wonder what, in the past, happened to cause the deaths of so many mammoths and Wooley Rhinos in the region of Siberia to Alaska?
I’ve read they were piled up in wind rows.
Mammoths fed in the periglacial areas where the ice cliffs shielded them from the bitter north wind, and they reflected warm sunlight onto them and the vegetation they feed on, while snow melt kept the plants well watered.
It was the most clement micro-climate for a hundred kilometers.
Until the edge of the glacier collapses...
Wind rows, or glacial moraines?
“Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs. Sam the Sham aka Dr. John recently died.”
Say what?
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