<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I skimmed this, but it seems to be counter to common sense... for instance...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here is a quote:</DIV><DIV>--</DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">But don't stop there; keep going back. As the number of potential ancestors dwindles and the number of branches explodes there comes a time when every single person on Earth is an ancestor to all of us, <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">except the ones who never had children or whose lines eventually died out</FONT>.</SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">And it wasn't all that long ago. When you walk through an exhibit of Ancient Egyptian art from the time of the pyramids, everything there was very likely created by one of your ancestors — every statue, every hieroglyph, every gold necklace. <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF0000">If there is a mummy lying in the center of the room, that person was almost certainly your ancestor, too.</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV>--</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Why aren't they taking the whole "dying out" factor more seriously? Who's to say the mummy in the center of the room even had children?! The plague in the middle ages DEVASTATED the european population. Think of all the dying lineages there. Just because someone lived at that time, doesn't mean they are your ancestor.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:32 PM, David Gutierrez wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thought I'd share this with the group. . . I came across the news story below and it made me think of the monologue Joe gives in Predator, at 41:50.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'd also like to give a shout-out to the JF Wiki ( <A href="http://www.jfwiki.org">http://www.jfwiki.org</A> ), which helped me figure out this came from Predator.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dave</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Joe Frank Mailing List</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:joe-frank-list@armory.com">joe-frank-list@armory.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.armory.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/joe-frank-list">http://www.armory.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/joe-frank-list</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>What is an oilostatic?</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:sally@oilostatic.com">sally@oilostatic.com</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>