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Have you ever heard the story of my old friend, the Cheddar Man?  As part of a publicity stunt, researchers tried get the local townsfolk better exposed to their prehistoric citizen. The idea was to heighten public interest and possibly to raise some funds. So they sent a geneticist to the nearby school. The geneticist took samples from the kids, to see if any of the kids might actually be related to the man who once owned the skeleton. Well the bad news was that none of the kids were related to the cheesy skeleton. But the good news was that the teacher was directly related to old Cheddar Man. Now get this: the skeleton was found about a half a mile from this guy's house. So in the course of 9,000 years this guy’s family managed to move about one half of one mile. This must have been a proud day for our hero the school teacher. And to make matters worse it looks like old Mayor McCheese was murdered. Who knows, maybe he was lost a half a mile from his home and was ambushed. It could be that the teacher is actually living on the very same plot of ground once owned by his cheddary ancestor.  So I'm just picturing the teacher; standing in the front of a classroom full of students. I see him holding a piece of chalk in one hand and a big wooden club in the other. He's probably wearing the traditional bearskin pelt hanging off one shoulder. Then the researcher comes in and tells him that he is related to Cheddar Man. Can you imagine the look of surprise? His thick heavily furrowed brow must have shot up in shock. I imagine this news would have been quite startling for him. Perhaps even more startling than the time he discovered fire in his kitchen at home. Get the full story here And make your comments here. Billo ----------------- |
