Posted on 01/30/2005 2:31:56 PM PST by wagglebee
It looks like white-washed elephant crap.
OK, I'll take a stab at it.
Time appears linear to us. However, if seen from another vantage point, time may be non-linear. 1980 happened before 1975 for these people.
Author slowly removes tinfoil and grins!
Old chewing gum?
One site I found says Tridacna gigas can live up to 40 years.
you win.
Forgot to add the smile after the "you win" comment... :-)
You nailed it perfectly.
:-)
That's why they don't say that pearls are a girl's best friend.
I read a short story some time ago about how a pearl brought nothing but bad luck. The person who found it ended up tossing it back in the ocean.
Poorly written article. The contract was by the father on the mother. The father left his estate to his daughter by his second wife. The kids sued their father's estate (wrongful death) r.e. their step sister and won the suit. The estate consists of part ownership of the gem of a now defunct company.
Lawyers ....
My question is who is Phillips and where is the second contract killing ... I say again, poorly written article.
"Giant clams are well-suited for aquaculture because they derive a substantial portion of their nutrition from a symbiotic relationship with millions of photosynthetic algae called zooxanthelle (Symbiodinium microadriaticum) that live in their fleshy, prominent mantle."
That's what you just said in seven words. :-)
Ya learn something new every day!
Looks like the brain they carried around on the latter-day Mystery Science Theatre.
The only way to open a clam is to kill it. My uncle is a marine bioligist who runs a clam farm. Can't be around people like that without picking up tidbits of info.
.. the rest of the story
A share of the football-sized pearl was part of the estate of their late father, Joseph Bonicelli, who hired two men to kill his wife, Eloise.
The Bonicelli children sued for the assets of the estate of their father; Delfino Ortega, the gunman; and Tom Phillips, whose wife also was killed by Ortega
Ortega was convicted in 2001 of killing Eloise Bonicelli. That verdict was overturned on appeal, but he is serving a life prison sentence for his role in the 1972 murder of Ann Phillips, the wife of Tom Phillips.
The murder cases remained unsolved until 1998. Phillips was granted immunity in exchange for his cooperation with prosecutors.
... apparently the second contract was Phillips on his wife only related by the same hit man ... looks like some license is being taken by the media
I think somebody must have done a sling-shot around the sun, disrupting the space-time continuum, and creating a temporal distortion.
: )
We want it to go to a charity for everybody to see and view, either a museum or a presidential library."
It's an ugly freak of nature with an ugly past and an even uglier name...
Sounds like just the thing for the Clinton Presidential Library, home of the worlds largest pearl.
"The Pearl of Monica".
That is one ugly pearl.
I once worked for a firm where someone had a large aquarium. Somebody came in to clean it one day, and the aquarium broke and flooded the office. I think they managed to save some of the fish.
Me, I just have a cat; fortunately, he doesn't require cleaning, chemicals, or temperature regulation. :-p
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