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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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To: Bars4Bill
"If the Howells were so rich, what were they doing on board the lowly Minnow?"
Slumming
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posted on
01/21/2002 7:31:57 AM PST
by
SERE_DOC
To: Bars4Bill, lowbridge
"The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle... Have you ever seen such a lush "desert" isle?
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posted on
01/21/2002 7:35:26 AM PST
by
dead
To: kattracks; *Islamic_Violence
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. While everyone seems to find this subject hilarious, I would be fairly confident that these skeletons are from Christians.
Comment #24 Removed by Moderator
To: OkieGrit2; denydenydeny
Ah, you see ... the humor lies in the biazarreness of the situation, your put-downs notwithstanding.
It matters not the religion of the raftees. Are you both implying that it would be acceptable fodder for jokes if it were known for sure that they were non-christians? That would be very ... unchristian, no?
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posted on
01/21/2002 11:30:53 AM PST
by
fnord
To: fnord
I don't really mind that people are making Gilligan's Island jokes here--I've done my share of that kind of thing elsewhere. I just wanted someone to start talking about the story and its implications. I underscored the likelihood of the victims being Christians because that's what the story is about, in my opinion.
To: fnord
And your argument is shedding straw all over the carpet, dammit.
To: kattracks
Chandra Levy
To: kattracks
"Le Radeau De La Medusa" by J. L. A. Gericault comes to mind.
To: Bars4Bill
Why didn't they just fix the fool boat?
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posted on
01/21/2002 1:17:48 PM PST
by
Cleburne
To: OkieGrit2
It shows the lack of common humanity of many of the neo cons on the list and the depth of their cultural education ie: bad sitcoms. And it shows what a large stick the many of the paleo-cons have up their rear.
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posted on
01/21/2002 1:18:27 PM PST
by
garbanzo
To: kattracks
I was going to guess Indonesia, then I read the ID card bit. Too late once again.
To: MarkWar
Oh man. Too many jokes.
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posted on
01/21/2002 1:28:55 PM PST
by
Wrigley
To: kattracks
All joking on this thread aside, thirteen "huge" rafts certainly implies more than 5 people starting out. Something tells me, if the facts ever become known, this may be a tragedy of horrific proportions. I sincerely hope that the FBI will respond to appeals for forensic assistance. One child among the 5 skeletons...I wonder how many children there might have been to begin with. Somehow I don't imagine enemies of these people, whomever they were, would have been so beneficent as to supply these refugees with huge rafts. It looks like these people must have been fleeing for their lives to have risked their families and children in this way. It also looks like they had at least a little time to plan their escape and procure the rafts.
Comment #35 Removed by Moderator
To: lowbridge
ha HA !!
....You Win !! !!
Comment #37 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
The Professor could fill a cavity in a freaking TOOTH with a molten penny, but couldn't patch a 2-meter hole in the side of a boat.
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posted on
01/31/2002 4:44:37 PM PST
by
strela
To: Harrison Bergeron
And the professor ... Doin' the horizontal mambo w/Mary Ann. The Skipper was too obese, Gilligan was a dufus, Ginger and Mrs. Howell didn't wear Birkenstocks or listen to the Indigo Girls, and Mr. Howell didn't want to lose half of his estate to a paternity suit and/or big divorce settlement with the missus.
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posted on
01/31/2002 4:50:16 PM PST
by
strela
To: kattracks
The are illegal dead people who voted for Gore and are returning home.
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posted on
01/31/2002 4:56:35 PM PST
by
Consort
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