Re: HEADLINES for the scientifically literate

[Dora Smith <villandra@austin.rr.com>]

ROFL!

I tested it on the good ol boys fixing the car out in the garage - and it
got funnier.  But you'll have to e-mail me privately to find out what my
intellectual housemate said - I'll surely get in trouble if I post it here!

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra@austin.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice Boyd" <janice.boyd@neptunesci.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:26 PM
Subject: HEADLINES for the scientifically literate


> Hello, all:
> If more of the people in the US were scientifically literate, I would send
> this to Jay Leno's HEADLINES segment on the Tonight Show.  Since that is
> not the case and since this is the only group I have contact with that can
> appreciate this boo-boo, I am pleased to present the following excerpt
from
> a recent edition of the magazine Louisiana Cultural Vistas:
>
> "Domesticated pigs date back 23 million years to the Miocene epoch in
> present-day Kazakhstan.
> At that time, there were three major varieties of domestic swine on the
> planet:  the Asiatic, the Neapolitan, and the Celtic.  As soon as nomadic
> tribes began to make contact, pigs cross-bred with one another and with
> wild boars, to create thousands of hog breeds."
>
> Imagine.  In the Miocene.
>
> (giggle)
>
> Regards
> Janice
>
>