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Comment: Did a millionaire buy an excavated frozen wooly mammoth from
scientists after they were finished with their research, then cook the
meat and hand it out to passersby in New York?
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Bonnie
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Episode 26: Fred's boss buys a mammoth and has Fred and Barney selling mastodon-dogs from a vending cart. Wilma and Betty compete with the boys by selling pterodactyl wraps.

(For what it's worth, here are a couple of earlier threads about dining on mammoths,

http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/58/t/000744.html
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/ubb/get_topic/f/58/t/000080.html

Nothing there about passing out mammoth flesh on the streets, however.)

Bonnie "they probably sold it out of the trunk, anyway" Taylor

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Ah, the old "quick-frozen mammoths" canard. It's covered-and refuted-extensively in the Talk.Origins Archive, including claims of edible mammoth meat.

http://tinyurl.com/4rfoh
http://tinyurl.com/6f9yo
http://tinyurl.com/4dwy5
http://tinyurl.com/58ao8

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