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January 13, 2006

Absolutely No Cannibals in New Orleans

And now it seems there were none in the Sierras, either.

There’s no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday.

Make no bones about it ~ it's time for these media feeding frenzies to stop.

Posted by tree hugging sister at January 13, 2006 01:21 AM

Comments

I misread your title -- I thought it said "Absolutely No Cannabis in New Orleans" at first.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at January 13, 2006 02:01 AM

(We know where YOUR mind is...)

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 13, 2006 02:04 AM

"...and when I say that there is absolutely no cannibalism in the Royal Navy, what I mean is that there is some--quite a lot in fact and far more than I'd ever be willing to admit--but we have the situation under control and most everyone now agrees it's the RAF that really suffers from this problem..."

Posted by: Dave J at January 13, 2006 02:09 AM

"Jenkins! Put down that leg!"

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 13, 2006 02:14 AM

Well, the article says that they didn't find evidence that the Donners ate people, as they were camped 6-7 miles away from the majority of the party, who did.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 13, 2006 08:03 AM

Listen...chaps...there's still a chance. I'm...done for, I've...got a gammy leg and I'm going fast; I'll never get through. But...some of you might. So...you'd better eat me.

Eat you, sir?

Yes. Eat me.

uuhh! With a gammy leg?

You needn't eat the leg, Thompson. There's still plenty of good meat. Look at that arm.

It's not just the leg, sir.

What do you mean?

Well, sir...it's just that -

Why don't you want to eat me?

I'd rather eat Johnson, sir!

Posted by: WunderKraut at January 13, 2006 08:36 AM

You quibble about nibbles, Bingley!

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 13, 2006 08:54 AM

'E's not kosher, sir

Posted by: Ken Summers at January 13, 2006 08:59 AM

Did you hear about the tribe in Africa who got sick after they boiled and ate the missionary?

Turns out he was a friar...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 13, 2006 09:26 AM

...They washed it all down with 7-Up. But they didn't eat the missionary's thing. Because things go better with Coke.

Posted by: Ken Summers at January 13, 2006 11:02 AM

Man, first Sacco and Vanzetti did it, and now a rich comic vein has been closed off. I don't know what to believe anymore. Next you'll tell me that Titanic has been sitting safely in port for the past 90 years.

Posted by: Nightfly at January 13, 2006 11:05 AM

THE DOONER PARTY WE IN FACT CANNIBALS!!! You can't decide to go try and clear their name 150 years later by saying, "We went and dug around and didn't find any human bones". IT WAS 150 YEARS AGO! the bones are not going to be just lying around a few feet under the ground!! People in the media are stupid and must be bored to just go around making up crap stories and fake truths!

Posted by: Ralph at January 13, 2006 01:39 PM

Not to worry, Diphtheria, we'll always have the rugby players...

Posted by: Ken Summers at January 13, 2006 01:41 PM

A warm Swill Welcome, Ralph!! And how lucky for us they throw everything up there ~ just LOOK at the material we have to work with!! It don't get no better than this. No, sir. {8^P Glad you joined the crowd.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 13, 2006 01:44 PM

I thought the cannibals were in Germany, but since the Euros have an early-release program...he'll be out soon.
The Donners (Mormons) were headed to San Jose, which at that time had the biggest Mormon population west of the Mississippi and was vying with Salt Lake City for preeminence and which would become the Mormon Capital - so maybe the cannibal-scandal had somewhat to do with a shift to Salt Lake as their center...?

Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at January 13, 2006 05:39 PM

That's something to chew on, keith...

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 13, 2006 07:08 PM

Very humerus, Mr. Bingley. But, please, no ribbing keith.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at January 13, 2006 08:33 PM

Yeah, Bingley. That takes some gall.

Posted by: Ken Summers at January 14, 2006 09:36 AM

Watch out ya'll ~ he's pretty thin skinned.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 14, 2006 04:44 PM

I'll just go home and stew then.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 14, 2006 05:09 PM

Hope it's a lung trip home and you gut to stew a lot. Bone apetit, little fella.

Posted by: Ken Summers at January 14, 2006 08:02 PM

He'll do anything to get a leg up...

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 14, 2006 08:07 PM