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Personal logo Saginaw Supporting Member of TMP24 Nov 2008 6:33 p.m. PST

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I can think of several NFL teams off the top of my head that would benefit from this.

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Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP24 Nov 2008 6:40 p.m. PST

I am sure that by the time we are capable of doing it, the ethical nuances of having a woman bring a museum freak show/science fair project to term in her body will be a laughable non-issue.

Streitax24 Nov 2008 6:44 p.m. PST

Are you sure it hasn't been done already?

Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian24 Nov 2008 7:03 p.m. PST

Do you think this should be a TMP poll? grin

Personal logo John the OFM Supporting Member of TMP24 Nov 2008 7:12 p.m. PST

Sure, why not?

Neotacha24 Nov 2008 7:37 p.m. PST

To what end? (That goes for both the poll question and the original query.)

John:

I am sure that by the time we are capable of doing it, the ethical nuances of having a woman bring a museum freak show/science fair project to term in her body will be a laughable non-issue.
Nah. They'll just stick it in a pig or something.

Personal logo Saginaw Supporting Member of TMP24 Nov 2008 8:09 p.m. PST

Do you think this should be a TMP poll? grin

Sure. It's gonna be a long weekend, anyway. laugh

By the way, I've got a (half-kidding) personal theory/observation about this, and that is I think the Neanderthals didn't totally die out. Not to be mean-spirited or anything, but have y'all noticed some of these kids lately? Seems like there's an increasing amount of boys that begin growing facial hair in their preteens and have full beards and/or shadows by the time they graduate, not to mention the occasional 6-foot tall, "thick"-looking 11-14 year old. Perhaps all these years of dumping chemicals and hormones into our food supply triggered a dormant Neanderthal gene that some of us carry?

*shrugs*

lugal hdan24 Nov 2008 9:50 p.m. PST

I dunno, would Neanderthal chicks work wherever Murphy is working now?

kyoteblue24 Nov 2008 9:53 p.m. PST

By God !!! you have DOOMED us all !!!!!!!!!!

Personal logo Gungnir Supporting Member of TMP24 Nov 2008 11:05 p.m. PST

Resurrect them? Our neighbouring province is full of them…

Klebert L Hall25 Nov 2008 7:12 a.m. PST

Of course we should.

We could learn some stuff, and maybe wind up with someone to talk to that isn't exactly like us.
-Kle.

BW195925 Nov 2008 7:44 a.m. PST

I'm with Gungnir. I see em all around. Heck one lives next door!

Eclectic Wave25 Nov 2008 8:17 a.m. PST

I went to school with several Neanderthals.

Personal logo Saginaw Supporting Member of TMP25 Nov 2008 8:41 a.m. PST

Here's a couple of random thoughts:

Would a Neanderthal be susceptible to all the techie trends and fads we've fallen prey to (like text messaging, MySpace, blogging, etc.)?

A pickup game of touch football in a local park: "apes versus sapes".

Just wonderin'.

Coelacanth25 Nov 2008 9:06 a.m. PST

Could we possibly get GEICO to sponsor the project?

Andrew Walters25 Nov 2008 9:16 a.m. PST

I think the Neanderthal genes are still with us. I'm sure I've met some.

I'm sure in the neolithic that the Homo Sapiens were separate from and hostile to the Neanderthals, as different language, ethnic, and cultural groups in the bronze age, but if human history teaches us anything its that even if two groups hate each other, some of them are sleeping together. Actually, as often as not its the ones who hate most who are secretly sleeping with the other side.

So the odds that HS and N did *not* interbreed are pretty small, in my opinion. So the genes are still out there.

Andrew

HardRock25 Nov 2008 2:01 p.m. PST

Have'nt we been electing them to Congress?

Henry

Jerzei Balowski25 Nov 2008 3:44 p.m. PST

If you ate a Neanderthal, would the act still be considered cannibalism?

Odd question I know, but this came up in conversation recently in my circle of friends. laugh

(I have very strange friends.) wink

Klebert L Hall26 Nov 2008 10:34 a.m. PST

If you ate a Neanderthal, would the act still be considered cannibalism?

Nah.
Probably still be illegal, though.
-Kle.

Last Hussar27 Nov 2008 2:03 p.m. PST

I have very strange friends/
What do you say when Jerzie says something like this?

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