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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:38:25 -0500
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On 2/22/2025 2:59 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/22/2025 7:50 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>> Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:47:49 +0100
>>>> nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/19/25 7:40 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>>>> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>> The USA (or predecessor colonies) took out the buffalo (well, nearly)
>>>>>>>> and the passenger pigeon (permanently), but the DoDo and others were
>>>>>>>> the responsibility of others.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't feel bad about the dodo, which apparently tasted fishy and
>>>>>>> greasy, but the passenger pigeon was absolutely delicious we are
>>>>>>> told.  And I will never have the opportunity to eat mammoth, sadly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or maybe you will!
>>>>>> https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/06/1235944741/resurrect
> i
>>> ng-w
>>>>> oolly-mammoth-extinction
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't want a woolly Mammoth!
>>>>> I want a dwarf elephant!
>>>>> A chamber elephant even!
>>>>>
>>>> You're a bit late, but if you just want the bones go to Malta.
>>>
>>> I know, but that's not a chamber elephant yet.
>>> But who knows what 10 000 years of selective breeding
>>> might have accomplished in the way of cuteness.
>>> The problem probably was that those early neolithic farmers
>>> hadn't yet invented newspapers for them to fetch.
>>>
>>> Jan
>>>
>>> PS 'kamerolifant(je)' is a Dutch word, meaning 'fatso, 'butterball',
>>> 'couch potato', etc. You get the idea.
>>> The word is sadly lacking in English.
>>
>> I think you want a 'mimoth' from Girl Genius.
>> https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Mimmoth
> 
> Yes, but that is a fantasy entity.
> De 'het kamerolifantje' is as real as the 'couch potato'.
> 
>> BTW, the last known mammoths lived on Wrangel
>> Island in the high Arctic, as recently as
>> 2000 BC.
> 
> Not dwarf ones, nor of relevance for the Middle East.
> The contested dwarf mammoth species might have lived on an island
> in Lake Baikal, thus within range of possible transport to Egypt.
> For the contested image, search on 'tomb of Rekhmire'.
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rekhmire_tomb_elephant.jpg>

Interesting. Could it be a baby elephant, with a non-eyewitness
artist simply assuming tusks?

pt