Asians discovered aboriginals

 
It wasn’t Captain Cook, scientists discover

A GROUP OF Asian sailors reached Australia 4,000 years before Captain Cook, scientists recently learned. And all Australian dogs, known as dingoes, are probably descended from the dogs on that ship, the same DNA studies revealed.

Wow, just imagine that first historic encounter.

INDIAN SAILOR: Namaste, esteemed indigenous persons! How would you like us to address you? Aboriginals, Maoris?

ABORIGINAL: G’day, mate. The Maoris are next door. We use clan names, so I’m a Koori.

SAILOR: Really? That is similar to our word “curry”, which we use for food. This, for example, is a delicious curry called fish tikka masala.

ABORIGINAL: Strewth! Smells ripper. But tell me: Why do some of you have four legs and go round sniffing people’s bottoms?

SAILOR: We are calling those members of our team “dogs”. They eat the rodents on our ship. We note you have many giant rodents hopping around.

ABORIGINAL: No worries, they can eat as many kangas as they like, we’re over-run with the buggers.

INDIAN DOG: Woohoo! Food City!

And so, with a meeting something like the above, the dingo was born, and Asian and Australian gene pools were joined forever.

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WASHINGTON WOMAN Donna Lange, 51, was accused last week of smothering her boyfriend to death with her breasts. How did police work this out? Was the corpse smiling?

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I LOVE READING the “world news” pages of the paper. The Japanese government last week said it may re-introduce a six-day working week. The same day, the President of Gambia said his civil servants will work only four days a week “because of public demand”.  Is this a clue as to why Asia is developing faster than Africa?

The leader of Gambia really seems to think we’ll believe that the government is giving itself a three-day weekend every week only because taxpayers are standing outside chanting: “Work less! Work less!”

(If it was China, where government employees spend so much time mistreating the general population, I could believe that.)

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THE CHINESE government just passed a new law forcing children to visit their parents or face jail time. I see two problems here. First, some young people who will say: “A week in jail or a week at mom’s? SAME THING.” Second, some parents hate their children and would be anxious to claim the week in jail for themselves.

Luckily for all concerned, the law-drafters forgot to say how often visits should take place, providing a loophole: “Your honor, I fully intended to visit my parents once every 150 years: sadly they died before my first visit.”

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AN AIR India pilot let her snack addiction over-ride orders from bosses, the media reported last week. Passengers were stuck after Captain Smriti Trehan ignored orders to fly them from Mumbai to Delhi, opting instead to fly a different plane to Jodhpur to buy kachoris (onion pastries, see pic above).

I would love to have heard her cabin announcement: “This is your captain speaking. Don’t eat the inflight muck, follow me after landing for a SERIOUSLY yummy snack.”

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PETE SPURRIER told me this morning that there was a nice review of my book in the Asia Times. Had a look. (Click the image below to go there.) Don’t think I’ve met Kent Ewing, the reviewer, but clearly he is a man of taste!

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MR JAM’S thought for the day:
 
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Comments

[Mr Jam]

First week of the 2013 university semester begins today... that's one of the nice things about being based at an educational establishment... regular loong breaks

[Ram]

Here is a video showing a train operator stopping train for few minutes so that he can get his food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2lVq4B3LtU

[rafanjr]

"ABORIGINAL: G’day, mate. The Maoris are next door. We use clan names, so I’m a Koori."

This sounds more like Brits not Asians, hmmm

[Lucy J. Pink]

Am I weird? The craziness of the world is what gives me hope for the future...... sometimes life seems stuck in a rut and there's no way a normal person can get ahead.... and then you read news like that above and you realize that something strange will happen and anyone can have their 15 minutes of fame....

Just have to decide which method to use.

Stopping a train or a plane to have a snack is probably a better option that smothering someone to death with one's breasts though!

[Karuna]

The Sangam literature which dates back to 300BC, talks about an ancient land that connect South India to a larger land mass to the south. There were 2 great tsunamis that led to the sinking of these lands.
The popular hypothesis is that southern end of this land mass is present Australia. By looking at the features of Australian aboriginals and a South Indian, the hypothesis seems may be right.

[Lucy J. Pink]

Im sure Karuna is right.... There are so many examples of things in ancient books that seem absurd to the modern scientific mind, and then, lo and behold, scientific investigation proves them to be true!

My favorite example is Pythagorus (sp?) who wrote that the earth was round, but it wasn't proved beyond doubt for millennia...

To Rajanjr: you say "g'day mate" does not sound Asian, I think it is not meant to sound Asian, it's mean to sound Australian...

[Nury]

Thanks for the interesting comments -- Ram, I like your train video -- we should make a list of the biggest inconveniences by thoughtless people -- do you remember when President Clinton once shut down a whole airport for 20 minutes while he had a haircut on the runway?

[Nury]

Karuna, I had not heard that info about the Sangam poetry, will check it out.

[E.R.]

Lucy, you're probably right about Plato, but I like the deductions of his pupil Aristotle, who worked out that the world was round by observing the shape of the earth's shadow on the moon.
I think the general point we can take from this is that if a piece of writing is still revered a thousand years (or more) after it was written, it is likely to be of significant interest to humanity.

[Ram]

@Uncle: I just searched for that news about clinton and read about it. if such a list is made, that will have all the politicians from different parts of the world at the top of the list.

@Karuna: I believe you are talking about Lemuria. I have read about this in the past (In Tamil, they call it "Kumari Kandam" which was described as a continent below kanyakumari, the southern most tip of India). But, there is no historical evidence available to prove that such a land mass existed, but I am not sure whether any group of geologists are still interested about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent)

[Ram]

if a piece of writing is still revered a thousand years (or more) after it was written, it is likely to be of significant interest to humanity.

3013 A.D (1000 years from now): Two archeologists are looking seriously into the materials they obtained from a recent excavation.

Archeologist 1: (Showing some music CDs) Hey, look here, there is something that looks interesting.

Archeologist 2: Let me see. (finds it hard to read what is written in there. After clearing up the debris, he reads slowly... "JUS...TIN..... BEI.... BER").

Next day in news: Archeologists found some interesting records dating back to the 21st century. They claim that this could be of significant interest to humanity....

[rafanjr]

Hi beautiful Lucy J. Pink, what i wanted to say was, it sounded like Brits really got their first before asians did with the g'day mate thing and all.

[grandpa]

" if a piece of writing is still revered a thousand years (or more) after it was written, it is likely to be of significant interest to humanity."

Alien spaceship lands on Earth
Alien archeologist find the curious diary of sam Jam.
Alien archeologist gives a conference

- we have the proof (he shows uncle's book to the audience on a hologram) that in 2013, humans used to communicate with paper documents like they did a thousand years before.
I conclude that their intelligence and technology had not seriously progressed all this time, even though each terrian had his own mirror-like crystal tablet, some showing a bitten-apple drawing .(At this time, the galactic scientific community did not figure out the meaning of this drawing.)
Based on pictures found on other paper documents, they seem to have spent a lot of time looking at themselves in those tablets, for no apparent reason.
If we study this book, it appears that this sam jam had a few followers, spreading the "good word" and fighting discrimination and oppression.
However, the human race from planet Earth, the terrians , never seemed to have achieve peace.
The readin of this book is the proof that the two genders , males and females were sleeping together at night, and fighting each other during the day.
This has led to the disappearance of this civilization.
Males were dominating females in everyday's life, but females were using their breasts as an ultimate weapon,either as a booby trap, or as a mean to poison them.
Based on this book , females were feeding on hot food called curry, or tandoory .
By breast feeding the baby boys, they weakened the male population by blood poisoning ,until there was no male left to reproduce the species.
Based on this book, terrians have erected monuments to their dead, in the form on huge towers, mostly found in Hong Kong in Asia and Man Hattan , in America.
The dead were moved to the different cubicles by an ingenious form of transportation, a sort of coffin, moving in a shaft and pulled by cables.
We found a poor translation of this book in the Man Hattany language,.
This leads us to firmly believe that this Sim Jam was revered as a god or a scientist, both in Asia and in america.
We do not know yet, how the knowledge could have spread from one continent to the next, because we did not find any mode of transportation or contact between those" two "sub civilizations";
We have found some kind of cigar shaped empty objects , parked next to straight tree-lined streets; or crushed into mountainous terrain.
Since terrians did not use our levitation technology, the use of these objects are still a mystery.

[Luce]

Sorry you have such a negative view of women's breasts, grandpa, sounds like you had a bad experience with them! Most guys like them!
But hey, I know all about the difficulties of relationships.... bin there dun that...
I looked up Lemuria on the internet. i wonder if this is another example of ancient writing being proved to be true by science. The Tamils believed that a land connected Australia and India and scientists say that it used to, right? Wasnt Australia part of Asia once?

[rafanjr]

everything was part of Asia once, remember Pangaea?

[grandpa]

@ Luce
Those are not my views.
They were comments made lately about this subject on this blog
My views on this subject are quite different (°_°)
Since I am tall ..............

[grandpa]

..... My view on the subject is better.

[TS]

I suppose that explains why there's Chinatown in almost the exact centre of all the major cities in Australia.