krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:31:35 PM
Open for discussion
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000907/od/cannibals_dc_1.html
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:36:01 PM
Are we supposed to separate into pro and anti cannibalism factions? 
James.
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rawbunzel
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:37:20 PM
I think we are suposed to watch our neighbors a little more carefully.Be wary of large cooking pots.
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:46:17 PM
The smell of boiling cottonseed oil.
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barrybarris
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:46:29 PM
If given the choice I would rather be the eater than the eatee...
Barry (so who is for desert?) Barris
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:47:23 PM
Yamagucci?
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barrybarris
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:51:11 PM
Now James that one did it. I'm laughing so hard I can't breath...
Barry (only in my dreams......) Barris
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:54:25 PM
The proof is in the 900 year old pooping at Cowboy Wash.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:56:58 PM
It's not poop. It's coprolite!
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Antiquary
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:59:05 PM
The proof was in the pudding?
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rawbunzel
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posted on September 7, 2000 09:59:40 PM
I have a large pile of petrified dinosaur coprolite. I wonder if there are people in there as well.
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rawbunzel
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:01:27 PM
I know, I know!!! They could use the dna from the poop and clone them and then they could ask them what really happened!
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:02:34 PM
I liked the comment by a UC Berkeley Anthropologist who said "Fur is going to fly over this".
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tegan
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:35:55 PM
Ick, ick, blah, yuck, phooey!
( End of My opinion on the matter )
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jt-2007
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:39:12 PM
It was practiced in Paupa New Guinea until the late 1960's when it was outlawed by the Australian government and even into the 1970's as an illegal practice. If you were considered good the women of the community were required to boil and eat you. If you were considered bad they burned you over the river and feared to go there.
Interesting book: "In Search of the Source".
It was written by Christian Missionaries and is avaliable through Sonlight Curriculum. It is adult reading level and a is a read-aloud for 4th grade. We read it last year. It deals with the cultural practices of Paupa New Guinea including cannibalism and much about language translation. Worth reading.
T
can't spell...even when I try
[ edited by jt on Sep 7, 2000 10:40 PM ]
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OneZippyOne
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:42:19 PM
If you were bad, did they wait for you to die?
Serendipity & Peace...
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:48:56 PM
It's not an uncommon thing. In France it's been proven that the specialty of the day in Neanderthal caves was Neanderthal stew.
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:50:12 PM
Did they prove that by analyzing Neanderthal coprolite?
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rawbunzel
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:52:28 PM
Didn't pay to be good did it? Bad to the bone..that's me!!! 
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jt-2007
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:53:06 PM
Yes Zippy, they did. They had lots of community rules for their society.
T
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jamesoblivion
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posted on September 7, 2000 10:54:45 PM
Rawbunzel, it didn't pay to be bad either. 
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:00:38 PM
LOL!
That reminds me of a sign that's outside the
shared offices of a veterinarian and a taxidemist in the town I used to live in that says "Either way, You get your dog back"
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jt-2007
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:03:37 PM
Forget about being dead and eaten...who cares. Imagine being a woman in that society. Icky, icky, pooey-ha.
T
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lotsafuzz
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:05:13 PM
Damn Krs, I thought for sure that this was going to be about the guy from Deming, NM who roasted his neighbors pet pig and ate it.....
(Really happened....Deming is just a stones throw away from here. Same place where a 13 year old boy shot a 13 year old girl in the head at school)
Oh well.
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rawbunzel
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:05:47 PM
James that is quite true! Couldn't be good or bad so what is there left?
Oh wait! I know...Neanderthal Stew!
KRS, I hope this thread is all you hoped it would be and more! 
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:06:48 PM
It's instinctive, apparently.
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bunnicula
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:09:41 PM
jt: look at it from their POV--maybe they *liked* long pork...
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jt-2007
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:09:54 PM
Our chickens love Kentucky Fried.
T
bunnicula, I think it was their way of passing those qualities to the next generation and attempting to rid themselves of the bad ones.
[ edited by jt on Sep 7, 2000 11:12 PM ]
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:12:08 PM
As long as you're here, Fuzz, I've been buying bits and pieces of the SW and ran across a listing for a two story cinder block house in Roswell that was for sale by the family of the owner who had, umm, disappeared one night.
Do you remember anything in the state media about that?
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krs
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posted on September 7, 2000 11:13:47 PM
Terri!! That was my lead. Bonjourno.
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