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2008-11-18 Down Under

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Posted by Grunter 2008-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Whoa, so CHEETAH THE CHIMP[Tarzan] + BIGFOOT + KING KONG must by definition be also related to RALPH/ROY THE 'ROO, thus explaining why Humans + Simians have no belly pouch nor 'Roo-type legs.

Film at eleven.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-11-18 00:08|| 2008-11-18 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Humans share 95% of their genetic material with Chimpanzees. And 75% of their genetic material with cabbage.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-18 00:21|| 2008-11-18 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3 If by "closely" you mean breathes air, bears live young and has eyes, a backbone, and more thane one cell, yeah. Considering that the line that kangaroos came from split out 80 million years before the mouse and the human diverged, I wouldn't exactly call it "closely" related. Sure it will have some of the same genes ... it grows lungs just like we do and has a brain. But "closely" related?

Posted by crosspatch 2008-11-18 00:28|| 2008-11-18 00:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Cringingly awful example of how clueless journos are about science.

Posted by phil_b 2008-11-18 00:35|| 2008-11-18 00:35|| Front Page Top

#5 They'd make better voters.

Posted by gorb 2008-11-18 00:57|| 2008-11-18 00:57|| Front Page Top

#6 If God didn't want them to be stupid, he would not have made them journalists.

Posted by SteveS 2008-11-18 01:07|| 2008-11-18 01:07|| Front Page Top

#7 I think 'roos are more closely related to mouses, otherwise, Sylvester wouldn't have been fooled so easily, and so many times.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-11-18 02:59|| 2008-11-18 02:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Of course they are. Both have a court system.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-11-18 05:31|| 2008-11-18 05:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Where exactly does that leave Captain Kangaroo?

Posted by no mo uro 2008-11-18 06:02|| 2008-11-18 06:02|| Front Page Top

#10 He's the real Missing Link.

Posted by ed 2008-11-18 06:08|| 2008-11-18 06:08|| Front Page Top

#11 When did Journalistus Erectus split from the line of Humanity?

Surely it must be before the evolution of large brains.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-11-18 06:43|| 2008-11-18 06:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Put the link into the source box, not the text box. The mods do NOT have time to keep fixing stuff like this. AoS.

Must have just jumped up there on it's own.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-18 07:26|| 2008-11-18 07:26|| Front Page Top

#13 When did Journalistus Erectus split from the line of Humanity?

Long before the split with the chimps. Chimps show more brains than journalists.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-18 08:13|| 2008-11-18 08:13|| Front Page Top

#14 And 75% of their genetic material with cabbage.
CABBAGE, n.
A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.

Posted by tipper 2008-11-18 08:14|| 2008-11-18 08:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Hmm, interesting rant.
Doctor! Double that patients dosage immediately!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-18 10:12|| 2008-11-18 10:12|| Front Page Top

#16 " Humans share 95% of their genetic material with Chimpanzees. And 75% of their genetic material with cabbage."

That's normal humans. Obamamaniacs share 75% of their genes with chimps and 95% with a cabbage.

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-11-18 11:29|| 2008-11-18 11:29|| Front Page Top

#17 Frozen Al, I think you just insulted cabbages.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-11-18 15:15|| 2008-11-18 15:15|| Front Page Top

#18 They're related to humans. They're used to it.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-18 18:54|| 2008-11-18 18:54|| Front Page Top

#19 So Cabbages, Kangaroos, and Piltdown Man are all cousins?

Posted by Al Aska Paul, Resident Imam 2008-11-18 21:15|| 2008-11-18 21:15|| Front Page Top

#20 SteveS - good one.

Posted by Zenobia Ebbomose aka Broadhead6 2008-11-18 21:38|| 2008-11-18 21:38|| Front Page Top

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