OK, vast audience, I’ve been bad at updating lately. But in the spirit of renewed blogging enthusiasm, I toss you an excerpt from an incredibly funny letter, supposedly from the Smithsonian to one Dr. Herman Smith:
3. The dentition pattern evident on the skull is more consistent with the common domesticated dog than it is with the ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time.
(Followup: Dr. Herman Smith appears to have been a real archaeologist who worked in Belize until he passed away in 2000. But google gives a big goose egg for the cleverly named “Otis T. Thudpucker”. The letter was written for a column that Dr. Smith did for the local English-language newspaper in San Pedro, Belize.)
(Followup followup: Dr. Herman Smith, God rest his soul, was a plagiarist. The letter is an apparent rip off of a piece written by one Harvey Rowe in 1994. Thanks Eli.)
Posted by pmk at July 20, 2004 8:02 PM | TrackBack