YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THOSE THINGS HAVE BEEN

ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display.

(Thanks to Catherine)           

Comments

[Jeff Meyerson]

Will they display them with Napolean's d!ck (which WBAGNFARB)?

[Meanie the Blue]

*Gasp!*

If those are his real fingers and tooth, then what, I ask you, is laying in the monumental tomb, opposite that of Michelangelo, in Santa Croce Basilica in Florence??

[ScottMGS]

I guess that middle finger was his last "word" in the whole astronomy argument he had with the Catholic church.

[Annie Where-but-here]

Bishop: Your holiness, I believe your poodle has discovered a rather odd looking chewtoy.

Pope: Silencio! Can't you see I'm praying for guidance in finding Galileo's missing body parts?

[padraig]

What is it with the Europeans and their compulsive displaying of 400-year old corpses and body parts as tourist attractions? There are better ways of preserving a sense of history. Come to think of it, there are better ways of preserving corpses, too.