SEND IT TO WASHINGTON
2,500 year-old preserved human brain discovered
(Thanks to The Perts)
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March 28, 2011
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Pat Buchanan?
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | March 28, 2011 at 08:27 AM
i was thinking of andrew zimmern...
Posted by: mudstuffin in klumbus | March 28, 2011 at 08:30 AM
"There is, however, no indication of why he was hanged"
Sounds like Texas
Posted by: Betsy | March 28, 2011 at 08:45 AM
Do the police suspect foul play?
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | March 28, 2011 at 08:49 AM
Well after all, there is no statute of limitations on murder.
Posted by: nursecindy | March 28, 2011 at 08:57 AM
*wonders how they knew he was hung*
Posted by: sandy | March 28, 2011 at 09:10 AM
Scarecrow: "If I only had a br....ooooh! Look at that!!"
Posted by: Punkin | March 28, 2011 at 09:11 AM
it was/is keith richards!
Posted by: queensbee | March 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM
Wasn't Sammy Hagar missing a brain a few days ago?
Posted by: nursecindy | March 28, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Send it to... ? Sheesh; don't we have enough brain-dead politicians there already. Though they do somehow manage to supprt huge egos with that necrotic tissue. Must be zombies (which certainly explains "my" Rep and Senators).
Posted by: Carl-Bear | March 28, 2011 at 10:50 AM
the first organ to really deteriorate and to basically go to liquid is the brain because of its high fat content
pre-Congressional man
Posted by: Loudmouth | March 28, 2011 at 10:51 AM
This is a job for CSI Heslington.
Posted by: Ernie G | March 28, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Edgar?
Posted by: Siouxie | March 28, 2011 at 11:53 AM
*snork * @ sandy. Yea. They didn't have any of the othrer soft tissue.
Posted by: markhh | March 28, 2011 at 12:08 PM
" Yellowish, Crinkly Shrunken Brain " would be a good name for a... No wait... Maybe it wouldn't.
Posted by: Clankazoid | March 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Isn't that black "stuff" mold?
Eeww, it is Pat Buchanan's...
(I prefer grape preserves, and mold-free at that.)
Posted by: funny man | March 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Didn't know Helen Thomas HAD a brain.
Posted by: Mikey | March 28, 2011 at 01:10 PM
Sorry. That was mine the morning after I drank that Icelandic vodka.
I knew I left it somewhere.
Posted by: Steve | March 28, 2011 at 07:39 PM
This is nothing new.
The pictures in the link are from one of my favorite books, written by (appropriately) P.V. Glob.
Posted by: Ralph | March 28, 2011 at 09:37 PM
Abby Normal?
Posted by: ScottMGS | March 28, 2011 at 11:17 PM
But to answer sandy's question:
Peri-mortem fractures on the second neck vertebrae are consistent with a traumatic spondylolisthesis and a cluster of about nine horizontal fine cut-marks made by a thin-bladed instrument, such as a knife, are visible on the frontal aspect of the centrum.
Posted by: markhh | March 29, 2011 at 09:30 AM
thanks markhh -
i was thinking maybe he was from the congo
Posted by: sandy | March 29, 2011 at 12:51 PM