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Hobbits May Be Earliest Australians
The Australian ^
| 12-8-2005
| Carmelo Amalfi/Leigh Dayton
Posted on 12/07/2005 3:01:40 PM PST by blam
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"To date, there's no hard evidence they could sail or raft. " Huh? It's my understanding that Flores was/is an island before, during and after the Ice Age.
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:01:41 PM PST
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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12/07/2005 3:02:16 PM PST
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:02:46 PM PST
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Libertina
To: Darksheare; HairOfTheDog
To: Do not dub me shapka broham
This gets posted from time to time :~D
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12/07/2005 3:04:08 PM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
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To: Libertina; blam
Not really what I had in mind ;)
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:05:00 PM PST
by
Libertina
To: blam
They believe the pint-size person - known officially as Homo floresiensis and unofficially as the "Hobbit" - was wiped out by a volcanic eruptionAnother theory is that their hole was taken out by a thermobarbaric nuke...
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:06:16 PM PST
by
Diddle E. Squat
((circle, circle, circle) "We go nonstop, too" (circle, circle, circle...))
To: blam
How ironic that Hobbits may have been the first Australians, but it was a Kiwi that made the movies!
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:06:56 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: Libertina
Here you go...
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:07:12 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
To: Libertina
Appear to be adult teeth, but I am no dentist, so that's not a juvenile.
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:09:00 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: blam
Exactly - to be in Australia proper they would have needed some means of getting to or from there...
Lovely theory of his, but I just can't see what he's basing it on apart from wishful thinking as the other fellow said...
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:16:37 PM PST
by
Androcles
(All your typos are belong to us)
To: blam
But there were some survivors, they made it to New Zealand. I have three movies that can prove this.
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:23:09 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(LINCOLN COUNTY RED DEVILS STATE CHAMPIONS)
To: blam
Tiny, hobbit like humans? Extinct? No, no, they live and whine in France, Germany and Spain. Oh, yeah!
To: blam
Calling them "hobbits" sure does give one a case of the warm fuzzies. When I was growing up, we always called them by the politically incorrect name, pygmies.
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posted on
12/07/2005 3:52:44 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(It's no coincidence that the Democrat mascot is a jackass.)
To: blam
To date, there's no hard evidence they could sail or raft. They got to the island somehow. That's evidence, but I suppose it would be called "soft", even though it seems fairly decisive to me.
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12/07/2005 4:01:53 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: FlingWingFlyer
Pygmies are typicaly taller than the "Hobbits"; usually ~1.5 m in height. The "Hobbits"; on the other hand, averaged only ~1 m.
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posted on
12/07/2005 6:03:06 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
To: Redcloak
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posted on
12/07/2005 6:24:59 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(It's no coincidence that the Democrat mascot is a jackass.)
To: blam
Professor Jacob, who temporarily snatched the Hobbit remains, claimed the creature was a deformed human and wished to work at the cave to prove his point. Or an extraterrestrial.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:21:04 PM PST
by
SteveMcKing
("No empire collapses because of technical reasons. They collapse because they are unnatural.")
To: FlingWingFlyer
What would be the diminutive of "pygmy"? "Pygmalion"?
To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; asp1; ...
It's my understanding that Flores was/is an island before, during and after the Ice Age.
That's also my understanding. It's been an island for more than 800,000 years, the date of some stone tools left by Erectus, or hey, who knows, maybe the Halflings.
Thanks Blam.
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12/07/2005 9:36:24 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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