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Who would you have for dinner?

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Mammuthus
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Message 46 of 47 (47402)
07-25-2003 10:24 AM 		Reply to: Message 45 by John
07-25-2003 10:12 AM

...would be fun but not quite the Thrilla in Manilla
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Message 47 of 47 (47404)
07-25-2003 10:31 AM

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I'm surprised nobody thought of inviting Darwin AND Wallace..just to cause a heated argument over who came up with the theory first
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They were Victorians, at a dinner party they would have spent the entire evening deferring to one another. If they argued at all it would have been through allusions and subtleties almost indetectable to us moderns.
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