Thank God Mort’s Not a Big One For the InterWebs Reading
…or he’d be kicking and screaming to move to Uncle Bingley’s New Jersey manse. What gives with the mutant-making water up there? First Snooki, now this…?
Heavy lifting in N.J.: A 65 million-year-old sea turtle
The group of scientists had plenty of brainpower, able to identify a prehistoric shark tooth or a crocodile jaw with a casual glance.
But when you get right down to it – down being the operative word – paleontology is sometimes a matter of muscles.
Squatting in a muddy Gloucester County mine pit Wednesday afternoon, seven strong men grunted and strained and heaved until they managed to lift up their prize: a 65 million-year-old sea turtle.
“It’s beautiful,” said a weary, dirt-caked Ken Lacovara, an associate professor of biology at Drexel University.
It was also rare. Lacovara and his colleagues have tentatively identified the creature as Taphrosphys sulcatus, a turtle that lived when much of New Jersey was underwater. Measuring more than three feet across, the specimen is believed to be the largest of its kind yet found.
Mort’s thinking, “steroids”, then “cool caped outfit”.
I can see it in his beady little eyes…
He’d throw us over like yesterday’s mashed slugs.
UPDATE: Hold ON a GOTDAM minute here!!! Maybe it wasn’t news from NJ after all…
“I came back strong. Large. In charge. Tights and cape shit…” My favorite congressman<3
WEINER was SEXTING my little TURTLE?!?!?!
That man IS. A. REVOLTING. PIG.
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He surely would. Don’t turn your back on him.
Why did you name her “Mort”? That’s a guy name.
Mort is ALL guy, Jeff! Good GRIEF!
Weiner thought it was short for “Morticia” and, impish cuss that Mort is, he played him along. That turtle’s in BIG trouble.
I’m taking the Kindle back, too.
Seven strong men grunted and strained and heaved until they managed to lift up their prize: a 65 million-year-old sea turtle.
“It’s beautiful,” said a weary, dirt-caked Ken Lacovara, an associate professor of biology at Drexel University.
This brings to mind that ongoing James Tarantino series “The Lonely Lives of Scientists” at the WSJ. Love those Mort pics – he’s a cutie!
Ooo! Schmaybe we’ll have to check that out, Dr. Alice! I always wanted to be a paleontologist/paleoanthropologist, but life interfered and I wound up in the Marine Corps. (Close enough, with authentic Neanderthals at hand on any given day!)
I may let Mort have the Kindle back for that (and he thanks you for the handsome complement) ~ it’s a DX, so he can browse WITH PARENTAL CONTROLS.
OK, Sis, I just have to ask…..
Is Mort gay? Or just a practical joker?
Remember, DADT has been officially revoked. Mort can come out of the, er, cage!
Weiner is indeed a revolting pig.
That said, there is another aspect to the Weinergate story as well, having to do with his purportedly pregnant wife, Huma.
And yes, there’s a national security aspect to it as well.