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Posted by Kris Krieger on November 27, 2007, 4:55 pm
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>> BTtTanZ2dnUVZ_hCdnZ2d@rcn.net:
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>>> Michael Bulatovich wrote:
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>>>>>Worse than being rejected by a phrenologist is ....
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>>>>>
>>>
>>> A few phrenologists I have met over time have all had in common both
>>> an inferiority complex and the overwhelming need to feel some sort
>>> of both superiority and control over other people to compensate for
>>> their complexes. Can you imagine the creduity of some guy like that
>>> explaining sotto voce how someone is genetically not quite to the
>>> mark because of the shape of his oer her head? Now, imagine the
>>> irritation at being considered one of the phrenologist's presumed
>>> illuminati because of the shape of your own head. Do you want to be
>>> a part of that guy's in group?
>>
>> Given that teh skull takes a couple of years to harden, and that, for
>> example, ancient Meso-Americans (I think the Maya but check, because
>> I don't recall) would bind the heads of infants so as to create an
>> elongated
>
> I think you're talking about the "Flatheads":
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederated_Salish_and_Kootenai_Tribes_of
> _the_Flathead_Nation
>
>> shape, and as a second example, the "papoose", wherein an infant
>> would be swaddled against a firm back, tended to give the babies'
>> heads a flattened shape in the back, I do not at all comprehend how
>> anyone can take phrenology seriously. Maybe, as an infant, someone
>> just slept in a certain
>> position most of the tiem, as opposed to someone else. It is such a
>> crock of nonsense that it's not even funny.
>
> Oh, I don't know...being mistaken is one of the mainstays of comedic
> structure. As long as no one is about to get hurt by it, it's funny to
> me, but then again, so is most religion and the Standard Model. That
> doesn't stop most people from taking them very seriously.
Seriously!
((For the r3cord, I do not ahve a flat head. I have a peaked head, nice
pointy ridge on top. I was never any good at eraser tag...))
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