Spectacular discovery in Holland: Geert Wilders dredged up from the bottom of the North Sea?
(“Characteristically thick…? Check…!”)
Now, before you get all excited, this is NOT what you think:
“For the first time ever, a fossil of a Neanderthal has been discovered in the Netherlands.”
No, it’s not him, I tell you.
First of all, we’re talking about a fossil here – and the man is simply not that old.
Or dead.
I know it’s a bit disappointing but believe it, it’s NOT him:
“The skull fragment, over 40,000 years old, with its characteristically thick Neanderthal eyebrow ridge, was found off the coast of Zeeland, dredged up from the bottom of the North Sea.”
Yes, I know, it would have been nice and, admittedly, ‘characteristically thick’ does tick the right box.
As I’m sure a lot of people wouldn’t mind to hear that he’d been dredged up from the bottom of the sea.
However, there is that inconvenient bit about the dredgee being 40,000 years’ old. Now, I know that it feels like he’s been around for even longer than that but still, I’m afraid that dog won’t hunt.
So, please get rid of those flags and balloons – and cancel the order for champagne and caviar, or beer and crisps.
Geert Wilders hasn’t done an Elvis yet.
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