Skeletal remains of unknown creature found at Lumut beach

BruneiDirect.Com ^ | feb-18-2003 | By Liza Mohd

[f.Christian]

"The U.N. has become an armory for storing of weapons of mass misinterpretation."

"The Secretariat is the only building in New York that is . . . swayback (( link ))."

"If it was a horse it would have been shot years ago. Presently the U.N. is asking the United States to build them yet another skyscraping monolith in tribute to themselves at a cost of 3.1 billion dollars, which raises the question, how do you say, "Up yours!" in Farsi? As long as the United States is saddled with support of this parasitic organization, we can hardly do other than think of it as a poor relation."

[Capt. Tom]

Although sharks are cartilaginous they have backbones made from it. I didn't see any ribs near the backbone and sharks don't have ribs likd other fish. Just speculation on my part since I have never seen a backbone from a basker but have seen them from other sharks.

Probably the first thing they will do is have someone familiar with baskers look at the backbone since several of these recent sea monster discoveries turned out to be baskers. Here is a recent example

Abstract
A decayed carcass accidentally netted by a Japanese trawler near New Zealand in 1977 has often been claimed by creationists and others to be a likely plesiosaur or prehistoric "sea-monster." Plesiosaurs were a group of long-necked, predatory marine reptiles with four paddle-like limbs, thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.

However, several lines of evidence, including lab results from tissue samples taken from the carcass before it was discarded, strongly point to the specimen being a shark, and most likely a basking shark. This should not be surprising, since basking sharks are known to decompose into "pseudoplesiosaur" forms, and their carcasses have been mistaken for "sea-monsters" many times in the past.

[Lady Jag]

Are you following more than one thread at a time?

[js1138]

Effdot's posts are generic and equally applicable to any and all threads.

[Lady Jag]

Okay, but I won't keep trying to decipher how it fits in this one.

[f.Christian]

Multi bashing ...

``I was a communist for 30 years and I listened to so much of this . . . demagoguery (( link )) - - - that now, with my democratic views, I can no longer stand it,'' Itar-Tass news agency

[Lady Jag]

Demogogic lobster tails? Sorry, maybe I'm following too many threads.

[js1138]

Since there is a picture of bones, I believe he thinks this is a creation/evolution thread, not that this makes sense either.

[Lady Jag]

Thanks, js1138. Abstract thought is stimulating, yet I couldn't correlate any sort of relationship among beach bones, the Twin Towers and demagogery, or how it could help identify the creature.

[js1138]

I'm beginning to wonder if effdot isn't really A+ on the wrong meds.

[Lady Jag]

Or some mighty good ones. I've heard Maui Wowie packs quite a punch.