Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On 2/22/2025 2:59 PM, J. J. Lodder wrote:

Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 2/22/2025 7:50 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:

Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:47:49 +0100
nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote:
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Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 2/19/25 7:40 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

The USA (or predecessor colonies) took out the buffalo (well, nearly)
and the passenger pigeon (permanently), but the DoDo and others were
the responsibility of others.

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I don't feel bad about the dodo, which apparently tasted fishy and
greasy, but the passenger pigeon was absolutely delicious we are
told.  And I will never have the opportunity to eat mammoth, sadly.

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Or maybe you will!
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/03/06/1235944741/resurrect

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oolly-mammoth-extinction
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I don't want a woolly Mammoth!
I want a dwarf elephant!
A chamber elephant even!
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You're a bit late, but if you just want the bones go to Malta.

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I know, but that's not a chamber elephant yet.
But who knows what 10 000 years of selective breeding
might have accomplished in the way of cuteness.
The problem probably was that those early neolithic farmers
hadn't yet invented newspapers for them to fetch.
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Jan
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PS 'kamerolifant(je)' is a Dutch word, meaning 'fatso, 'butterball',
'couch potato', etc. You get the idea.
The word is sadly lacking in English.

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I think you want a 'mimoth' from Girl Genius.
https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/Mimmoth

 Yes, but that is a fantasy entity.
De 'het kamerolifantje' is as real as the 'couch potato'.
 

BTW, the last known mammoths lived on Wrangel
Island in the high Arctic, as recently as
2000 BC.

 Not dwarf ones, nor of relevance for the Middle East.
The contested dwarf mammoth species might have lived on an island
in Lake Baikal, thus within range of possible transport to Egypt.
For the contested image, search on 'tomb of Rekhmire'.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rekhmire_tomb_elephant.jpg>

Interesting. Could it be a baby elephant, with a non-eyewitness
artist simply assuming tusks?
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