Crooked in Canada II

You know what they say about life imitating art.

When I was a kid growing up, a must read was The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I never read the books, in fact, I have yet to see any of the LOTR’s movies, and to be honest, I have absolutely no interest in anything ‘Lord of the Rings.” I’m not into [that] fantasy kind of crap.

I won’t be disappointed if my stepchildren don’t take an interest in the J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy crap either.

Having said that, I am interested in hearing more about this new kind of ‘human species,’ the hobbits.

Who would have thought that researchers would have the balls to turn a fairy tale character into a real-life human being?

No crap man, that’s what they (researchers) did, and they came to this conclusion by examining skeletal remains.

Yeah that’s right, other than the bones, very old bones I might add, they have been able to conclude that yes indeed, hobbits used to walk the planet, at least in Indonesia anyway. Obviously, the researchers on this ‘anthropological’ case have way too much time on their hands. I bet this was a very expensive and time-consuming piece of research, research that as far as I’m concerned serves absolutely no purpose in today’s society.

There are more important things to spend time and money on than trying to figure what, and who, roamed the planet 12,000 years ago.

Oh, and just so you know, I saw photographs of the bones and I concur that they look like they are human.

Did I mention that I don’t have the tertiary qualifications, or the resources to come to such a conclusion, not that I needed those resources. My eyes work just fine.

My point is, who cares about this crap, and what significance is it going to play in our future. I bet it cost a lot of money to solve this ‘evolution’ puzzle, money that could have been better spent on some other kind of research that actually matters.

Anyway…

Now that ‘hobbits’ have been humanized, I really have to wonder how difficult their lives were when they roaming the planet. I bet they got picked on because of their height, you know, bullied.  Their height probably even contributed to their extinction. Think about it, how much lava would it take to burn, and bury a person that size alive, especially one that can’t run fast.

One thing is for sure, the ‘hobbits’ weren’t fast runners if they are no long living among us, otherwise some of them might be walking amongst us today. Wait a sec, there are dwarfs living among us, maybe they are descendants of [that] human species.

How did they survive I wonder. No, I really don’t wonder that, I’m just saying that for my own amusement, but it is an interesting point to ponder.

Other than living off the fat of the land, I wonder if some of them were circuses performers. My research (I googled ‘circus’) didn’t turn up anything, so I can’t say for sure if circuses were around 12,000 years ago. Maybe the ‘hobbit’ researchers know something about that, and when they get around to it, I bet they’ll release new research data that tells the world exactly how they lived, how they put food on the table, and made ends meets.

Ya think they might have been hunters, perhaps even cannibals. Nah, just kidding. I really don’t care one way, or the other.

I know, this is a stupid blog article, a waste of blog space and perhaps even your time (though if you have read up to this point you wasted your own time), but the researchers that have been examining 12,000 year-old bones, only to conclude that they are the remains are human, don’t have a lock on stupidity.

In my defense, maybe I wrote this while in an ‘other than normal’ state. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about that.

Bottom line-this is just a stupid story, one hardly worth the space it is taking up on my blog, let alone a news website. But hey man, people eat this kind of crap up, and there are actually benefactors, not to mention taxpayers, who actually pay for this kind of ‘irrelevant’ kind of research to happen.

Having said that, I’m going to surf the Internet to see if there has been any further developments in a vaccine to prevent dwarfism. Would anybody care to pay me to do that research?

The story can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311619.stm