anyone got a WALRUS (eating clams?)

In article <lsc...@netcom.com>, Lisa Chabot writes:
>Dave Bird  <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>><chr...@lutefisk.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>:
>>:Arenariphobia - fear of or aversion to clams 
>>:(specifically the soft clam). 
>>
>> Hmm.  Is that based on the Greek word for "clam"?   And which clam
>> is a "soft clam" (one that runs away when you read out OT3??).
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>Only slightly on topic:
>I'd just like to point out that walruses are notorious devourers of
>clams, sucking them right out of their shells, hundreds every day.  
>Who cares about those stupid bird engrams!  
>(Dave, do you have any walrus-ascii-art?)

 Erm, no;  I'll asc on A.A-A

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>Krow wrote in message <74stle$m58$1...@Usenet.Logical.NET>...
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>>Well..at least you admit being a known associate of these bigots is a
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Eugene Holman wrote:

>
> The ancient Egyptians were most certainly *not* white, they were Africans.

I am sure you have a basis for this statement, however you are perhaps unware that
presently there is a substantial amount of DNA testing being conduced in Egypt to
determine just this sort of question.  While the results are unavailable, it was
reported that a substantial number of corpses were "fair haired."   No explaination
was given.  Dating was also to follow.



>                 <snip>
>
>                                     Languages and cultures usually spread hand in
> hand, and the ancient Egyptian culture started in the upper regions of the
> Nile and evolved by spreading northwards along the Nile Valley to the
> delta and adjacent flatlands.

FWIW,  it was my understanding that an ancient common root language had been
established for Egytian and six other ancient languages including Sandskrit, Hebrew,
Greek, Latin,  Celtic, plus one  I have gotten.    The common root language is
thought to have arisen about 7,000 b.c.e. in a place called Ur  which has been
placed in the area between and to the north of the Capsian and Ural Seas.  This Ur
is not to be confused with the Iraqui cite.

Bare in mind that this is a very long time ago, and there would certainly be other
influences on the formation of the Egytian language.   One of the inferences from
this root language though is that there is a common anscestor, a common lineage and
race arising from Central Asia.   Of course extensive DNA tests will provide far
more conclusive evidence than is currently available.

Jim 6b