< A poster wrote to say I forgot to provide the answer to last year's "Famous Last Words? quiz, so it is listed below. < ===================================== < > FAMOUS LAST WORDS > (See How Smart You Are) < This is a new educational series sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution... < > =============================== < > SELF-TEST < < (Correct answer below.) < Peeking Not Allowed < > TODAY'S HISTORICAL FIGURE < > CHARLES DARWIN < > What were Darwin's famous last words before his fatal heart attack? < ( ) Hmm! This new medicine tastes a bit like arsenic. < ( ) Hell, I'll be out of bed in no time. < ( ) Hmmm! My hospital bill!. I'm SURE it can't be much. < ( ) This new medicine actually tastes delicious. < ( ) This laxative will have me feeling better in no time. < ( ) Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. < < < < < < < AND THE CORRECT ANSWER (Drum Roll, please) IS: < ( X ) Hmmm! My hospital bill. I'm SURE it can't be much. < Ed Conrad > http://www.edconrad.com < < Man as Old as Cola (Coke, Pepsi or Dr. Pepper) < =============================== < Off to prison with those Scoundrels of Science Molesting Truth with such obnoxious defiance They're the Champs of Illusion Nauseous gas for their fusion. PSEUDOSCIENCE: It's a pathetic a-LIE-ance! < http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/SaveTheWhale.jpg < ====================================== < < PETRIFIED BONES, TEETH AND SOFT ORGANS < (SOME HUMAN) FOUND BETWEEN COAL VEINS < http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/OldestHumanSkull.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/HumanBrain.jpg http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/ManasOldasCoal.jpg http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/Discoveries.jpg http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/MoreFossils.jpg http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/TestResults.jpg http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/OldestTool.jpg http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/Scorpion.jpg http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/FOSSILS/MVC-013F.JPG < < ================= < < PETRIFIED FOSSILS STILL EMBEDDED IN SLATE < http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/NewFossils/MVC-002S.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/NewFossils/MVC-003S.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/NewFossils/MVC-006S.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/NewFossils/MVC-007S.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/NewFossils/MVC-009S.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/NewFossils/MVC-010S.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/edconrad/NewFossils/MVC-012S.JPG < ================================================ < "We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -- Plato < ================== < cc) Larry King Dead CNN ABC CBS NBC Fox News MSNBC BBC C-span Meet the Press 911 Conspiracy President Bush alt.war.iraq Baghdad Iraq Iran London Tony Blair Rush Limbaugh Don Imus Ross Perot NYC Lou Dobbs Chris Matthews Smithsonian Institution Wall Street Journal Stock Market Nobel Foundation alt.paranet.ufo Dick Cheney Good Morning America Immanuel Velikovsky Worlds in Collision Intelligent Design Evolution David iain Greig talk.origins sci.bio sci.bio.evolution OPEC Oil eBay Walmart American Association for the Advancement of Science American Association of Physical Anthropology Keith Olbermann Harvard Penn State University of California-Berkeley
