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Chinese villagers eat dinosaur bones
ap ^ | 7/4/07 | ap

Posted on 07/04/2007 5:30:21 AM PDT by Flavius

BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.

Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

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KEYWORDS: adriennemayor; china; godsgravesglyphs
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To: Flavius

In the humor section of the bookstore, “World News” (that real weird rag with the outrageous Big Foot stories, etc. (Bat Boy) has a book of headlines out, this doesn’t seem all that far from that kind of a story.


41 posted on 07/04/2007 9:52:12 PM PDT by RGPII
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To: Flavius

If comic books have taught me anything, these people are soooo going to get super powers from this.


42 posted on 07/04/2007 9:53:54 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

mmmmmmmmmmmmm dinosaur bones

43 posted on 07/04/2007 9:57:09 PM PDT by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Flavius

I had a steak like that once.


44 posted on 07/04/2007 9:58:09 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: Slings and Arrows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070412140942.htm

“fossilized” doesn’t mean the protiens are gone.


45 posted on 07/04/2007 10:07:59 PM PDT by MacDorcha (study links agenda-driven morons and junk science...)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

“Stone Soup” is what I thought of!


46 posted on 07/04/2007 10:23:19 PM PDT by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I call BS. Any dinosaur bones found today would be fossilized, and I doubt that these people were eating rocks.

Approximately half of the weight of bone is calcium, a mineral. Calcium almost remains largely intact in fossilized bone (only occasionally recrystalizes), so ingesting ground-up dinosaur bone isn't much different than popping a couple caplets of coral calcium. Coral calcium is mined from fossilized coral reefs.

47 posted on 07/05/2007 4:29:46 AM PDT by elli1
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To: Dustbunny
Totally amazing what the Chinese consider to be medicinal or to have special powers.

Coral Calcium

Coral Calcium is mined from fossiled coral reef.

48 posted on 07/05/2007 4:35:06 AM PDT by elli1
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To: Flavius

My ex-Mother-in-law better go into hiding...


49 posted on 07/05/2007 5:00:09 AM PDT by Brofholdonow
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To: Flavius
Saddam must be rotating fairly quickly he got bombed for less

OH?

Tell it to the Kurds!

50 posted on 07/05/2007 5:06:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mmanager
I’m looking into marketing my dirty golf socks in the Chinese market.

Dirty panties actually have a market on the 'net!


http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIC,HPIC:2005-18,HPIC:en&q=Dirty+panties+sale

51 posted on 07/05/2007 5:08:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Flavius

I thank God every day that I was born in America.


52 posted on 07/05/2007 5:10:07 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Gee!

Thanks!


53 posted on 07/05/2007 5:11:18 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
I thank God every day that I was born in America!

Nowadays you got to thank Him that you were BORN at all!

25% of pregnancies end in abortion!

54 posted on 07/05/2007 5:14:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: NormsRevenge
When a Chinese family sits down to dine, I'll bet it's interesting to watch them fight over who gets the two fifteen-feet-long, meatless drumsticks.

Westerners who travel to the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing better be wary of dining at the Chinese restaurants, particularly those around the equestrian venue.

Leni

55 posted on 07/05/2007 5:24:41 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !)
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To: Dustbunny
Totally amazing what the Chinese consider to be medicinal or to have special powers.

Or edible... I've walked through China-Town in NYC, and didn't stop for a snack!

Mark

56 posted on 07/05/2007 5:35:14 AM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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To: cyclotic

“These people will eat anything.”

As a matter of fact, China has often been hungery - which is why they will eat just about anything.


57 posted on 07/05/2007 6:19:00 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: Flavius

“answer the only people that care about it are sequestered onto small bulletin boards”

&

“as effective as screaming on the street with a sandwich poster that says the end is coming”.

Have you verified your theory of the lack of efficacy and/or impact of small Internet sites, like Freerepublic.com for example, with Jon Karry, Dan Blather, or The Goron?


58 posted on 07/05/2007 6:24:26 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: elli1; MacDorcha

OK, not BS. Still, it means that people are even more stupid than I thought.


59 posted on 07/05/2007 7:14:23 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Gaza: Your one-stop schadenfreude entertainment center.)
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To: Flavius
Update: Frank "Fossil" Lautenberg Cancels Trip To China
60 posted on 07/05/2007 7:24:57 AM PDT by End_Clintonism_Now (<==== NOW MORE THAN EVER !!!!!)
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