So I'm really geeked about this old lady visiting Houston for the next eight months...

[Richardo]

I mean OLD: 3.2 million years old.

Not a plaster cast, not a simulation, the actual, real 'Lucy' skeleton from Ethiopia.

I can't believe I have the opportunity to see this in person. I cannot WAIT to see her. :bounce:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5089923.html

[ceile]

1. Thanks for the reminder.

I plan on making a trip to see her.

[formerrepuke]

2. Who wants to see an old fossil in Texas that's probably responsible for

most of the problems in the world today?

[Richardo]

3. Unfortunately, she *lives* here.

I *wish* she'd leave in April. :(

[Bunny]

4. That is so cool. I remember reading about the concern around sending

her to America. Can you snap me a pic on your cell? I want to act like I know someone important! :hi:

[BurtWorm]

5. I Love Lucy.

[Blue-Jay]

6. Hubba hubba!

[Fenris]

7. She has all the features I look for in a woman.

Big breasts, junk in the trunk, and a frightening ape-face that will be in my nightmares for eternity.

[Blue-Jay]

8. I am soooo tellin' on you!

[Richardo]

12. I'm thinking an alert to the mods of LBN will do the trick

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Damn, Paris Hilton's been eating a lot.

[hfojvt]

10. dem bones dem bones

What's that mean? Anyway?

[Critters2]

14. It's a reference to Ezekiel 37...

Ezekiel 37:1-14

The Valley of Dry Bones

37The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, ‘Mortal, can these bones live?’ I answered, ‘O Lord God, you know.’ 4Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath* to enter you, and you shall live. 6I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath* in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.’

7 So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9Then he said to me, ‘Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath,* and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.’ 10I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.

11 Then he said to me, ‘Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.” 12Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord.’

[DS1]

11. I thought Nicole Ritchie was 30-something

[terrya]

13. I'm jealous

[SPKrazy]

15. ha ha ha!

oh that is hilarious

cool that you get to see her!

:wow:

:woohoo: