Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/23/man-finds-stone-age-mammoth-bones-buried-in-his-basement.html
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They tried to get the tusks out, but they were in there pretty tight.
Of course, in Alabama…
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Poor mammoths, got so drunk they couldn’t get back out of the wine cellar…
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The Amontillado calls to all.
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Poe reference; good one.
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Stone age mammoth bones? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of Austria? Localized entirely within your wine cellar?
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They hadn’t been buried in his wine cellar-the cellar happened to be dug out where the bones were already located.
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Something is wrong with that link. It just goes to “oeaw” and when the “server not found” message asks if we want to go to www.oeaw[dot]com, that redirects to www42.oeaw[dot]com, which looks very strange to me.
Here’s the real link:
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Can they determine if it had been wearing pajamas?
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Not until the results of the cotton-14 test.
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You think they’d have been wearing cotton, even though they’re specifically woolly mammoths?
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Who knows? I’m not an archaeologist.
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Sounds like a pretty suspect alibi to me. “Honest, detective! Those corpses were already here when I had the basement put in!”
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Forget archaeologists, we need Groucho Marx on the case.
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Are they standing on the back of a giant turtle?
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"For the love of God, Montresor!”
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