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Rafts Carry Mystery Skeletons Onto Pacific Atolls
Reuters
| 1/21/02
Posted on 01/21/2002 2:59:17 AM PST by kattracks
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posted on
01/21/2002 2:59:18 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Realize that by posting this story everyone will have the theme from Gilligan's Island stuck in their heads today.
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posted on
01/21/2002 3:02:44 AM PST
by
Cagey
To: Cagey
I'm not sure that I see the parallels. The professor would never have allowed anyone to take off on a raft without precise calcualtions on how long it would take to reach Hawaii.
To: kattracks
Kinda spooky in a way.
To: Cagey
If it was only a three-hour tour, why did Ginger take along her entire wardrobe?
If the Howells were so rich, what were they doing on board the lowly Minnow?
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posted on
01/21/2002 4:47:13 AM PST
by
Bars4Bill
To: kattracks
It belonged to an Indonesian man from Bitung in Sulawesi, 1,100 miles to the southwest, where Muslims and Christians have been fighting for three years, raising the possibility the rafters were refugees from a conflict. I dunno, the picture I get is of the people hanging out the WTC windows - jump or burn? Seems like it could be a case of a guy trying to protect his family when faced with a choice of a confrontation with peaceful muslims or the unknown sea.
To: kattracks
Wilson!!
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:26:21 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
To: kattracks
Something doesn't sound right about this.
"We have an archaeologist...who helped with the investigation of the bones and found they've been dead for up to one month or two months."
Why are there skeletons and why are they sunbleached if they've only been dead for up to one or two months?
To: kattracks
The Donnor Party?
To: Rodney King
The professor would have fashioned an outboard motor and a GPS from coconuts. They would've reached wherever they were going in a day.
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:39:43 AM PST
by
Brett66
To: Alabama_Wild_Man
The Donnor Party? More like the Donner party Meats The Love Boat
To: pa_dweller
I dunno, the picture I get is of the people hanging out the WTC windows - jump or burn? Seems like it could be a case of a guy trying to protect his family when faced with a choice of a confrontation with peaceful muslims or the unknown sea.That's my impression as well.
To: Just another Joe
>Something doesn't sound right about this...
Let's see... There's Gilligan. The Skipper, too. A millionaire, and his wife. A movie star. The professor and Mary Ann... Yep. Everyone present and accounted for.
Mark W.
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posted on
01/21/2002 6:57:29 AM PST
by
MarkWar
To: Bars4Bill
If it was only a three-hour tour, why did Ginger take along her entire wardrobe? If the Howells were so rich, what were they doing on board the lowly Minnow?
Mary Ann and the Howell's had full wardrobes too (including an 18th century ball gown!).
If the island was uncharted, how come so many people were able to find it (but whenever they sent out a search party, the US armed forces weren't able to when in fact they've used the island during WW2?)
There was the rich socialite Erica Tiffany Smith, the actor who tried out his "Tonga" act on the castaways in order to prepare himself for the role in a Tonga movie (and how come Tonga knew that there were going to be people on the island to try his act out on?), Kincaid the great white hunter, the Ginger look alike Eva Grubb, the Gilligan look alike Russian spy, The "ghost" who haunted the island but was really another foreign spy, Dr. Balinkoff, the rock group The Mosquitoes, Wrong Way Feldman, Lord Beasley, Wiley the kidnapper, the South American dictator who was put into exile on the island, and a countless number of natives from the other surrounding islands.
Never mind the people who found the island by accident:
The Mr. Howell impersonator, Harold Hecuba the Hollywood producer, a Japanese soldier who thought the war was still on, the two russian astronauts, even a robot.
To: Rodney King
Apparently they couldn't build a raft that floats. Imagine having trees on the island made out of wood that doesn't float.
To: kattracks
More "Skeletons" from the Klintoon administration?
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posted on
01/21/2002 7:10:19 AM PST
by
skateman
To: skateman
More "Skeletons" from the Klintoon administration? Only if the skeletons had revolvers in their hands.
To: Bars4Bill
And the professor... ahhhh the professor... going on a pleasure tour was so opposite his egghead bookish personality... he had to have had some nefarious motive... I suspect he orchestrated the shipwreck and was using Gilligan for evil experiments.
To: lowbridge
And let's not forget Harold Hecubah (Phil SIlvers) the Broadway producer! To this day, I can't listen to a certain opera tune without singing along with lyrics to the Gilligan's Island musical production of Hamlet! LOL!
To: kattracks
To bad Capitan Bligh was'nt aboard one of those rafts. He could have dead reconed it all the way to Fiji.
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