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(Breitbart.com)   "Discoveries of surgically perforated ancient skulls are uncommon in Greece." Because we're just tripping over heaps of them here in the U.S.   (breitbart.com) divider line
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hubiestubert [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-03-13 11:11:45 AM  
Well, Smitty, it was practiced in the New World for a long while--Bolivia and Peru it was relatively common, as well as some evidence in the Maya even...
 
Etchy333 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-03-13 11:21:12 AM  
Only three lines long?

That is not an article.

That is a haiku!

/so is my post
 
Old_Chief_Scott [TotalFark]
2008-03-13 11:21:25 AM  
So the whole issue here is that archeological evidence of trepanation is a rarity in Greece? Did I read that right?
 
dillenger69
2008-03-13 12:42:10 PM  
trepanation takes coordination
trepanation a game we all can play ...
 
Cagey B
2008-03-13 12:42:33 PM  
Subby should be registered as a sex offender for raping the context of the article with his headline.
 
GAT_00
2008-03-13 12:46:51 PM  
Didn't Washington have 3 holes drilled into his head at different times for bloodletting?

/shudder
 
Dead for Tax Reasons
2008-03-13 12:58:56 PM  
that's just so backwards of a science. i'll stick to phrenology
 
ThatGuyGreg
2008-03-13 1:04:19 PM  
You should see my back yard... arrowhead, arrowhead, surgically perforated ancient skull, arrowhead, surgically perforated ancient skull, arrowhead...
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-03-13 1:10:24 PM  
Cagey B: Subby should be registered as a sex offender for raping the context of the article with his headline.

Eh? The headline is mostly a sentence from the article--in fact, it's nearly half the entire article.
 
Manfred J. Hattan
2008-03-13 1:24:07 PM  
TFA: "But site excavator Ioannis Graikos said the woman's skeleton was found during a rescue dig last year in Veria."

What's that, Eleni? Timiopolous fell in a well?
 
March_Hare
2008-03-13 1:26:21 PM  
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Meh. In my book there's a difference between "brain surgery" and just drilling holes in a guy's head to let the evil spirits out.
 
Sweet182
2008-03-13 1:32:11 PM  
I'll admit...I've tripped over a few in my day.

March_Hare: Meh. In my book there's a difference between "brain surgery" and just drilling holes in a guy's head to let the evil spirits out.

You also forgot Dahmer's slightly twisted scientific methods.
 
kidsizedcoffin
2008-03-13 1:34:50 PM  
It took them that long to figure it out it is easier to just gouge out their eyes and skull fark them?
 
docmattic
2008-03-13 1:37:08 PM  
I needed this article like I needed a hole in my head.

/getting a kick out of the fact that I posted with the word "trepanation" yesterday.
 
mongbiohazard
2008-03-13 1:45:30 PM  
hubiestubert: Well, Smitty, it was practiced in the New World for a long while--Bolivia and Peru it was relatively common, as well as some evidence in the Maya even...


I came in here to say..... This.
 
jso2897
2008-03-13 1:48:57 PM  
kidsizedcoffin: It took them that long to figure it out it is easier to just gouge out their eyes and skull fark them?

Another Burroughs fan, I see.
 
JeffTL
2008-03-13 2:12:28 PM  
Actually, we're trepanning over heaps of them...
 
LrdPhoenix
2008-03-13 2:35:18 PM  
hubiestubert: Well, Smitty, it was practiced in the New World for a long while--Bolivia and Peru it was relatively common, as well as some evidence in the Maya even...

Also lots of "open heart surgery" going on over here back then as well.
 
Feldspar Q. Walrustitty
2008-03-13 3:20:07 PM  
kidsizedcoffin: It took them that long to figure it out it is easier to just gouge out their eyes and skull fark them?

I'll bet you NEVER pay for TF...
 
F42
2008-03-13 4:10:45 PM  
hubiestubert: Well, Smitty, it was practiced in the New World for a long while--Bolivia and Peru it was relatively common, as well as some evidence in the Maya even...

That's America, not the U.S. ;-)
 
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