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2006-05-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

'Hobbits' didn't really exist, say scientists

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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-19 00:54|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Meanwhile, at LIVESCIENCE.com, scientists believe that early humans may had mated wid their chimpanzee/ape relations.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-19 02:03|| 2006-05-19 02:03|| Front Page Top

#2 If hobbits didn't exist, then, how could all that stuff in the lord of the rings happen? Hummm... answer that, you dimwitted "scientists"!

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-19 03:36|| 2006-05-19 03:36|| Front Page Top

#3 "Smeagol hates hobbitssessss."

Posted by Mike 2006-05-19 06:54|| 2006-05-19 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe multiple sets of remains have been found, which makes the microcephaly argument seem less likely. It's been a while since I read up on this, though.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-05-19 08:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-19 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I forget. When were midgets invented?

Posted by Fred 2006-05-19 09:37|| 2006-05-19 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Hobbits and Elves and Orcs, Oh my!

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-19 09:54|| 2006-05-19 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 They advanced this argument a while back, again, with little or no evidence, using the opinion that they just didn't think it was possible.

"It can't be an orange because it doesn't look like an apple, so it must be a really defective apple."

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-19 09:57|| 2006-05-19 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Scientists dont exist.

Now Im taking my hairy feet over to the Green Dragon, and having a beer.

Posted by Meriadoc Brandybuck 2006-05-19 10:19|| 2006-05-19 10:19|| Front Page Top

#9 First they tell us Hobbits aren't real, next they'll be spreading nonsense that the DeVinci code is fiction as well. Man, these scientists.

At least we can all fall back on Hogwarts.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-05-19 10:42|| 2006-05-19 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 rjschwartz:

You seem to believe the microencephaly proponents should have the right to argument from authority but the scientists who discovered the bones shouldn't.

Posted by Phil 2006-05-19 12:21|| 2006-05-19 12:21|| Front Page Top

#11 The movie in the pic is, in fact, one of the funniest movies ever made.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-05-19 13:15|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2006-05-19 13:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Phil you seem unable to get a joke or copy/paste my name. What gives?

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2006-05-19 14:16|| 2006-05-19 14:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Chuck S. roumor has it that it was made while all the little people were available from the Wizard of Oz. Like urban myth.

Posted by 6 2006-05-19 16:13|| 2006-05-19 16:13|| Front Page Top

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