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   From: ciaran@ciaran.com   
      
   Komin wrote:   
   > so  most   Brits  are    Basque  descendants /   
   >   
   >   
   > should the   Brits support  ETA ?   
      
   Personally, I support the NTO (Neanderthal Terror Organisation) because   
   I have red hair, freckles and a pointed chin.   
      
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   >   
   > mike4cs@cogeco.ca wrote:   
   >> >From the Proto-European race derived from men with hemispheres and   
   >>   
   >> Brains that are derived from them. (apparently Basques). Well the   
   >> answer is quite obvious. The men may have had red hair, but not   
   >> recessive chins, freckles, or even pointed chins, and are not   
   >> especially from the sterotypical pictures often seen with commercials   
   >> such as frosted lucky charms.   
   >>   
   >> Lucky Charms Not Magically Delicious   
   >> by H. Fernandes 1999-09-01   
   >>   
   >> An independant study completed at the University of Vermont shows that   
   >> Lucky Charms, the popular breakfast cereal produced by consumer foods   
   >> company General Mills, may not in fact be "magically delicious".   
   >> Instead, the study contends that the reason the cereal is delicious is   
   >> the combination of complex sugars and additives.   
   >>   
   >> The breakfast cereal, which contains several tasty marshmallows, is one   
   >> of the most popular breakfast foods in the country. Television   
   >> advertisements for the product feature a lovable Leprechaun named   
   >> "Lucky" who sings: "Frosted Lucky Charms, they're magically delicious."   
   >> It is thought that General Mills' choice of the mythical and magical   
   >> creature from Irish folklore is key to the widespread belief in the   
   >> statement. Most viewers reasonably assume that a leprechaun knows what   
   >> is magical and what is not.   
   >>   
   >> As the news reverberated through the cereal world, charges of false   
   >> advertising and misconduct were levelled at General Mills. Kellogg   
   >> spokesperson Daniele Behr stated that "[misconduct] such as this cannot   
   >> go unpunished. By claiming that Lucky Charms is magically delicious,   
   >> the cereal has garnered a large share of the market." More   
   >> significantly, the industry has expressed an almost uniform disgust   
   >> with the Minneapolis, MN, company's advertising policy, citing the   
   >> Kellogg Company's more truthful approach as an example for all   
   >> advertisers. "Take Frosted Flakes," Behr said, "they really are   
   >> 'Grrreat.'"   
   >>   
   >> Customers of the cereal are divided. Said New York, NY, resident Alex   
   >> Ferguson, "This news is devastating. I've spent the last five years of   
   >> my life eating Lucky Charms because I hoped that some of the magic   
   >> would rub off on me. Now that I know there is no magic, I don't think   
   >> I'm going to continue to eat the cereal."   
   >>   
   >> Minneapolis, MN, resident Bryanne Kidd is unaffected by the news,   
   >> stating "How can anyone measure magic powers, or even the presence of   
   >> magic in a cereal? I just don't buy this study." When asked if she   
   >> would always remain faithful to this study, Parker added, "I think so.   
   >> Definitely."   
   >>   
   >> Despite the pledge of many of the cereal's fans to remain faithful,   
   >> several stores around the country have pulled the cereal from their   
   >> shelves. Sales, which have dropped recently due to the company's vastly   
   >> unpopular decision to phase out the 'Yellow Moons' marshmallows, are   
   >> expected to fall even more. When asked if the company would bring back   
   >> the "Yellow Moons" to restore some of the cereal's appeal, Media   
   >> Relations Director David Beckham answered. "General Mills has no plans   
   >> at this time to reintroduce the Yellow Moons. We still have Pink   
   >> Hearts, Orange Stars, Green Clovers, Blue Diamonds, Purple Horseshoes,   
   >> Red Balloons, and Pots of Gold. Besides, we maintain that the cereal is   
   >> magically delicious."   
   >>   
   >> Despite Beckham's confident statement company insiders indicate that   
   >> General Mills is going to remove all claims of magic from its cereal   
   >> boxes for fear of false advertising lawsuits. As well, several   
   >> television networks have already confirmed that the company has   
   >> cancelled all commercials it had planned for the cereal.   
   >>   
   >> When asked about this Beckham explained, "General Mills does not want   
   >> to deceive the public. Though we contend that that Lucky Charms is   
   >> indeed magically delicious, we will not make any such claims in our   
   >> advertisements until we have proved so ourselves." Beckham continued,   
   >> explaining that the company had already set up a special task force to   
   >> prove the Leprechaun's claims. The task force, assembled at no small   
   >> cost, includes world-reknown magician David Copperfield and Merlin, the   
   >> long-dead wizard/magician of the Middle Ages who now communicates   
   >> through medium Bryan Riggs. The company has chosen John Ritter, the   
   >> goofy actor from Three's Company, to be its spokesperson.   
   >>   
   >> Said Ritter last night: "Merlin and David [Copperfield] have already   
   >> felt a strong magical presence surrounding Lucky Charms. Now we just   
   >> need to prove that it is the cereal's deliciousness which is magical. I   
   >> expect this will take several weeks."   
   >>   
   >> "Copyright Henry Fernandes, 1999"   
   >>   
   >> Men with freckles and a recessive/pointed chin are really non-proto   
   >> european which might indicate they might be descendants of   
   >> neanderthals. A double or dimble chin from the chin bone might   
   >> otherwise indicate a homo sapien characteristic and are thus the   
   >> original seafaring galicians from Spain who brought megaliths from   
   >> Spain to Ireland during the neolithic.   
   >>   
   >> The former Basques of Galicia which includes Spain or France, having   
   >> learned of better life from neolithic farming, quickly adopted the   
   >> females Galician neolithic celtic way of life! (read hemispheres that   
   >> make men)   
   >>   
   >> Given the distribution of Celtic languages in southwest Europe, it is   
   >> most likely that they were spread by a wave of agriculturalists who   
   >> dispersed 7,000 years ago from Anatolia, travelling along the north   
   >> coast of the Mediterranean to Italy, France, Spain and then up the   
   >> Atlantic coast to the British Isles. There is a dated archaeological   
   >> trail for this. My genetic analysis shows exact counterparts for this   
   >> trail both in the male Y chromosome and the maternally transmitted   
   >> mitochondrial DNA right up to Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and the English   
   >> south coast.   
   >>   
   >> Further evidence for the Mediterranean origins of Celtic invaders is   
   >> preserved in medieval Gaelic literature. According to the orthodox   
   >> academic view of "iron-age Celtic invasions" from central Europe,   
   >> Celtic cultural history should start in the British Isles no earlier   
   >> than 300 BC. Yet Irish legend tells us that all six of the cycles of   
   >> invasion came from the Mediterranean via Spain, during the late   
      
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