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Mummified Monk Found Inside 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue

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An anonymous reader writes Using a CT scanner, scientists and hospital staff at the Meander Medical Center in the Netherlands have discovered the mummified body of a Chinese monk inside a statue of Buddha. The monk is believed to have lived around the year 1100. From the article: "Glowing through the statue's golden cast, the human skeleton is believed to belong to Buddhist master Liu Quan, a member of the Chinese Meditation School. To further investigate the mummy, the researchers took the statue to the Meander Medical Center in Amersfoort and carried out an endoscopy and additional CT scans. They found out that Liu Quan's internal organs had been removed and replaced with scripts covered in Chinese writing. The museum speculates Liu Quan may have 'self-mummified' in order to become a 'living Buddha.'

108 comments

  1. Most likely not mummified... by retech · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's just in a very deep state of meditation.

    Like this guy: http://siberiantimes.com/other...

    1. Re:Most likely not mummified... by mwehle · · Score: 3, Informative

      He's just in a very deep state of meditation.

      You've got a very dry sense of humor.

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    2. Re:Most likely not mummified... by retech · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If you can't laugh at a 1k yr old meditating monk, then who can you laugh at. =)

    3. Re:Most likely not mummified... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They should be able to bring this guy back via jurassic park style cloning pretty easy. 1000 years vs millions for dinos should have a really good chance at success. Then they can ask him about life 1000 years ago and if he really self mummified or not.

    4. Re:Most likely not mummified... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Let's wrap this up, guys.

    5. Re: Most likely not mummified... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Too soon.

    6. Re:Most likely not mummified... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Came here looking to see if you photoshopped a cat lying in his arms. (disappointed)

    7. Re:Most likely not mummified... by itzly · · Score: 1

      You've got a very dry sense of humor.

      It's mummified.

    8. Re:Most likely not mummified... by DrXym · · Score: 1

      "I am the serenest!"

    9. Re:Most likely not mummified... by Chatsubo · · Score: 1

      It takes a lot of desiccation.

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    10. Re: Most likely not mummified... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes, Guru Meditation

    11. Re:Most likely not mummified... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's just in a very deep state of meditation.

      You've got a very dehydrated sense of humor.

      FTFY

    12. Re:Most likely not mummified... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      He's pining for the fjords.

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  2. Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It'd be pretty great if they could get those writings out intact and scan them.
    From what I've seen Buddhism is a waning religion, and is probably the only one that most people can't really speak against, since, you know, what has a Buddhist ever done to you?

    1. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      It'd be pretty great if they could get those writings out intact and scan them. From what I've seen Buddhism is a waning religion, and is probably the only one that most people can't really speak against, since, you know, what has a Buddhist ever done to you?

      http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

    2. Re:Preservation by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 4, Insightful

      My wife's family is Buddhist, and none of them are anything like you describe.

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    3. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It'd be pretty great if they could get those writings out intact and scan them.
      From what I've seen Buddhism is a waning religion, and is probably the only one that most people can't really speak against, since, you know, what has a Buddhist ever done to you?

      http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...

      I can call myself anything I want (like these folks), but claims won't change reality.

      Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding...

    4. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In other words, absolutely no Buddhist has ever actually done anything to you.

    5. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sadly no irrational belief is without evil people to enforce it. Look up on SGI(no it's not Silicon Graphics).

    6. Re:Preservation by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      Buddhist converts. Like Steve Jobs. Did you marry an Asian woman? So typical.

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    7. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      To be fair, about 25% of the world population ends up marrying an Asian woman. So, yeah, it is kind of typical.

    8. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I hope Jesus comes back and kicks the everloving shit out of your punk ass.

    9. Re:Preservation by jma05 · · Score: 1

      This is really a communal conflict, rather than a religious conflict. But then again, that is the case with a few other so-called religious conflicts today.

      Even with these riots, it is still difficult to paint Buddhism or Buddha as hostile. The rioters are not at all drawing from any religious teachings. In case of Abrahamic religions, the perps can quote scripture as justification. I don't think there is anything similar in Buddhism.

    10. Re:Preservation by msobkow · · Score: 1

      I've yet to meet a Buddhist who was anything like you describe. Don't confuse Buddhism with Californicatin' "New Age" hipsters. The latter only claim to be Buddhists, and only pick and choose a few select pieces of their scripture that goes with their crystal-worshipping nonsense.

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    11. Re:Preservation by DrXym · · Score: 1

      They already know what they say - "Software failure. Guru meditation #00000004.0000AAEF"

    12. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ignorance is bliss. Especially for bigots.

    13. Re:Preservation by sociocapitalist · · Score: 1

      No religion is perfect, and while Buddhism shouldn't be a religion there are many who have made it so...and once you put religion in, you take rationalism out.

      Violence committed by 'Buddhists':
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

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    14. Re: Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Real Buddhists too that too

    15. Re:Preservation by expatriot · · Score: 1

      You mean that fat bastard, I hate him! always eating all the figs and reclining. Something not right with that boy I say.

    16. Re:Preservation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am Jesus. I'm coming for you first.

    17. Re:Preservation by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      You're in luck, Zombie Jesus Day is 2 months away or so.

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    18. Re:Preservation by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Yeah, but those scriptures could contain the explanation what the fuck that means!

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    19. Re:Preservation by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 1

      I don't even know what your point is there.

      "Buddhist converts." Did I say that she converted to Buddhism, or that she converted her whole family?

      But, yes, she is of Asian ancestry, though she was born in this country. To make it more confusing for you, she was born in 'The States', but not in 'a state'.

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  3. meditating by Noah+Haders · · Score: 1

    is he dead, or is he just meditating really really hard?

    1. Re:meditating by DougOtto · · Score: 4, Informative

      probably pining for the fjords.....

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  4. TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The one time I actually go and RTFA, and now I'm all creeped out. No more of that nonsense ...

  5. self-mummified by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    How do you self-mummified???

    Still living, he removed his organs, placed some scripts and paper covered in chinese inside his body. And then he placed himself inside the statue...

    I'd like to know what they are smoking at this museum!!! Wait, it's from the Netherlands, they spend too much time in coffee shops.

    1. Re:self-mummified by OzPeter · · Score: 3

      How do you self-mummified???

      It starts by reading the TFA.

      After which you'll wish that you didn't read the TFA.

      Certainly not something for those who are even the slightest bit claustrophobic to attempt.

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    2. Re:self-mummified by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My bad, I read another article in which they did not talk about the mummification process, and they emphasized about the scripts inside the body.
      So how did the scripts ended up there ? Seems it needed a post mortem process.

      This is suicide by mummification.

    3. Re:self-mummified by JoeMerchant · · Score: 1

      Considering it is a form of ritualized suicide, in which the protagonist is doing himself in slowly over a matter of months or years, claustrophobia is small time.

      Granted, the monk is also meditating to achieve a form of enlightenment, but I have a hard time seeing the value of his last 6 months or so of isolated life in which the only thing he communicates to the world is: "nailed it, my body didn't decay."

    4. Re:self-mummified by Immerman · · Score: 1

      It's probably a safe bet that, generally speaking, the sorts of monks who lock themselves in isolation for months or years at a time don't consider "communicating with the world" to be very high on their priority list. Enlightenment is after all a very personal thing, not something you can really discuss directly even with fellow attainees.

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    5. Re:self-mummified by McFly777 · · Score: 1

      Even worse. IIRC the Japanese lacquer sap, which the self-mummifying drunk, has high concentration urushiol, which is what makes poison ivy itchy and inflammatory.

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  6. This just in! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Monk dies 1000 years ago; mummified!
    Collector buys Buddha statue in 1995; discovers mummy in 1996!
    Mummy gets new CV scan in 2015!
    Slashdot covers 19-year old discovery of 1000-year old corpse!

  7. Thank you for reminding us. by SuricouRaven · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Even the 'good' religions can get pretty weird at times.

    1. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by zoffdino · · Score: 5, Insightful

      He dedicated his body to his conviction, he personally suffered for what he believes is the path to a better life, he left this world in a peaceful and voluntary mean. He didn't bomb another religion, or shoot the infidels, or behead the non-believers. To each his own religion. Religions only become bad when they creeps up on others.

    2. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by chihowa · · Score: 1

      He didn't say it was bad, only weird. And it is pretty weird.

      Anyway, I though Buddha specifically taught us how to become a "living Buddha". That's pretty much entirely what his teachings were about and nowhere in them did he mention encasing yourself in a statue of him like some sort of creepy stalker.

      One of the ways that religions become weird is when they blow off the teachings of the great master/prophet/god/whatever and concentrate more on worshiping them. Given time, it seems like that's where all religions end up.

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    3. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2

      That's not true at all, I have read on these very pages how all religion is utterly and irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. Now we're making exceptions?

      PS if you think Buddhists are innocent of bombing, you really need to pick up a history book. Beheading, too.

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    4. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by rahvin112 · · Score: 1

      Budda also abandoned his wife and children to find "enlightenment".

    5. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by g01d4 · · Score: 1

      Budda also abandoned his wife and children to find "enlightenment".

      And brought it back so to speak. His wife, Yasodhara, and son Rahula became Arhats.

    6. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And then came back. His son became a monk. His wife became a nun. Both reported became enlightened. And, if stories can be believe, he abandoned them in once of the families many palaces. Which my dad had done that.

    7. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by jma05 · · Score: 1

      To add to what others wrote about his coming back, it should also be noted that he was a prince and an heir to the throne. It wasn't as if he abandoned his wife and child to destitution. Add to the fact that ancient and medieval royal marriages were nothing like today's.

    8. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I disagree. Religions routinely become bad when they trick people into doing self-destructive things, self-loathe, or otherwise inflict harm. Further, the remaining practitioners (priests) have never been beneath engaging in a macabre commerce of sorts: gaining followers by pointing to these acts as endorsements.

      It's a pretty simple ethical decision: If I don't ethically believe in letting insane people commit suicide, I should also labor to stop people from either A: dying / suffering without a measurable reason or B: trading in any way upon suicide or suffering.

    9. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by WillKemp · · Score: 1

      He dedicated his body to his conviction, he personally suffered for what he believes is the path to a better life [......]

      He died for a better life?

      That's like fighting for peace. Or fucking for celibacy.

    10. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I fuck my best friends wife so he doesn't have to have sex.

    11. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Immerman · · Score: 1

      Well, you've got to stretch the definition of Religion pretty far to encompass Buddhism. It offers no God, nor any Commandments (though lots of guidelines for monks and others seeking enlightenment). Hardly a religion by most definitions.

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    12. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Immerman · · Score: 1

      If you believe yourself to be an eternal being, then this life is but one small step in a much longer journey. It's always puzzled me why so many Christians fear death, when they claim to know they are going to a place vastly superior to this one.

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    13. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by TemporalBeing · · Score: 1

      If you believe yourself to be an eternal being, then this life is but one small step in a much longer journey. It's always puzzled me why so many Christians fear death, when they claim to know they are going to a place vastly superior to this one.

      Well, there are many who profess to be Christians but are not; but then, you always fear what you do not know, no matter how much you try.

      And then, of course, many fear how death will come on them - do you really want to die because a sword cut off your head in one of many passes, being burned alive, etc?

      $0.02

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    14. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by hawkfish · · Score: 1

      Well, you've got to stretch the definition of Religion pretty far to encompass Buddhism. It offers no God, nor any Commandments (though lots of guidelines for monks and others seeking enlightenment). Hardly a religion by most definitions.

      Which definitions are you referring to? Mine is Paul Tillich's "Ultimate Concern". By that definition, Buddhism is certainly a religion in the sense that it provides a path to meaning (i.e. enlightenment.)

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    15. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      At least he didn't go on anyone's nerves except those that enjoy the same kind of lalaland fantasy who are probably ok with this.

      Most other religions and their zealots spend their time going on the nerves of those that are perfectly happy without joining the loony club.

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    16. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Pretty much this. Why all the weeping at religious burial ceremonies? Allegedly that guy is now in a better place, ain't he? Or is it that you envy him and you can't just off yourself 'cause the religion commands that you won't get to $happy_place by suicide?

      I'd rather expect a huge celebration with strippers and blow. Thinking about it... that's how I'm gonna organize my funeral.

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    17. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by Immerman · · Score: 1

      Nah, that part I can understand: funerals are for the living, who have undeniably suffered a loss. You might weep when a good friend moves far away, and you can still visit and talk to them on the phone. Death is considerably less malleable - even if you decide to follow, doing so means giving up contact with all your living loved ones until their time comes.

      And incidentally I've actually been to a few funeral parties - no strippers or blow, but lots of drinking and carrying on, with plenty of laughter to ease the tears. I'd certainly hope my own would be so pleasant. That I will die is the only guarantee I got in life - don't mourn that I met the inevitable, rejoice that I lived well while I was here.

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    18. Re:Thank you for reminding us. by WillKemp · · Score: 1

      It's always puzzled me why so many Christians fear death, when they claim to know they are going to a place vastly superior to this one.

      That's because they can only delude themselves to a certain extent. Deep down they know that when they die that's it. Nothing. But they try and believe that's not true. So, of course, because they spend their whole lives desperately clutching a delusion, they never come to terms with oblivion. All but the most gullible ones live their lives desperately fearing reality.

  8. Clickbait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That headline grabbed my attention, sadly it's clickbait. TFA states that they knew about the Monk being inside of this statue before the CT scan but what they didn't know was that inside the Monk's chest, was a ancient scroll which detailed the Monk's life.

    1. Re:Clickbait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      So it's like a Holy Buddhist Turducken?

    2. Re:Clickbait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hilarious.

      Morbid, but hilarious.

  9. pics and tidbits of self mummify by breman · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just saw this collection of pics of the same subject. It was quite interesting and thought I'd share. http://www.carapas.com/these-m...

    1. Re:pics and tidbits of self mummify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      One paragraph per page, with a photo on each page. Interesting content, but seriously, fuck you for posting anything from such a piece of crap website.

    2. Re:pics and tidbits of self mummify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That site is for cunts.

  10. Quick ! call by invictusvoyd · · Score: 1

    Brandan Frazier ...

  11. Self-mummified? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So he replaced his own internal organs with chinese scrolls and built a statue around himself?

    Because I'm willing to bet that didn't happen even if the chinese government says it did.

    1. Re:Self-mummified? by omnichad · · Score: 1

      Mummifying is preserving a body. This was done by basically drinking poison and then letting it do its work. The scrolls and statue are a bonus. They were already mummified before that was done.

    2. Re:Self-mummified? by Immerman · · Score: 1

      Read TFA - it's a 2000-day diet designed to severely emaciate the body, followed by drinking varnish tea to purge remaining fluids and possibly render the body poisonous, followed by live entombment in a space too small to move in, and meditation until death. 1000 days after death the tomb is then opened to see if the body was mummified or not - presumably some time after that the scrolls were inserted - they're not normally part of the process. Depending on construction the statue may have been the tomb, or it may have been constructed around his body at some later date - in fact I wouldn't be surprised if both the scrolls and the statue were added to the mummy at the same time.

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  12. They did an endoscopy? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope the poor monk doesn't get hit with some drug-resistant bacterial infection...

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    1. Re:They did an endoscopy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Nope - but a huge medical bill

    2. Re:They did an endoscopy? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      Now that would be a pain in the ass.

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  13. I would like to see your double blind study by musmax · · Score: 1

    design on what, from face value, sounds like a falsifiable statement. And if it not, then that's like, just your opinion man.

    1. Re:I would like to see your double blind study by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All religions, bar none, are ideological.

      All ideologies sew division among men.

      Division among me creates strife.

      Strife leads to harm.

      Some religions try to minimize their ideological footprint. (Some don't at all.)

      Thus: There are no good religions, only more or less harmful ones.

      (coda: you must accept that (harm = not good) to buy this argument)

      (coda 2: falsifiable statement may not mean what you think it means)

    2. Re:I would like to see your double blind study by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sounds more like all ideologies are harmful, religious or otherwise. What makes religion so much worse than political or economic ideologies that cause just as much death and suffering?

      It's "sow" as in seeds, by the way, not "sew' as in cloth.

    3. Re:I would like to see your double blind study by Jeremi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Sounds more like all ideologies are harmful, religious or otherwise.

      It's not that ideologies are always harmful, so much as that acting without thinking can be harmful, and ideology discourages people from thinking things through for themselves.

      If people are carefully and honestly thinking through the consequences of their actions, they are less likely to harm themselves or others.

      If, OTOH, people are blindly following dogma rather than engaging in rational thought.... well, often that isn't an immediate problem (either because the dogma is reasonably applicable to the situation at hand, or because the consequences of the decisions being made on auto-pilot are not too severe). But it does open the door for serious harm to occur, because people who aren't thinking are not able to quickly or easily detect or amend their mistakes.

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    4. Re:I would like to see your double blind study by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sounds more like all ideologies are harmful, religious or otherwise. What makes religion so much worse than political or economic ideologies that cause just as much death and suffering?

      That's a different discussion. Religion being better or worse that other ideologies was not a part of his argument. You have tacitly agreed with what he was actually saying.

    5. Re:I would like to see your double blind study by sociocapitalist · · Score: 1

      "If people are carefully and honestly thinking through the consequences of their actions, they are less likely to harm themselves or others."

      You assume that people do not want to harm themselves or others, which is often not true.

      Organized religion is a power base and it has always been used by those in power to keep or get more power - not to make nice nice.

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  14. I see the problem. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    "They found out that Liu Quan's internal organs had been removed and replaced with scripts covered in Chinese writing"

    This is fatal.

    1. Re:I see the problem. by fodendaf · · Score: 1

      This kills the crab.

  15. Living buddha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Their idea of a 'Living buddha' is apparently a preserved historic relic with hidden messages for future archaeologists. I guess this proves they were pretty all-knowing back then. Wondering what the scrolls say, maybe a prediction how stupid mankind will be at the year 2000.

  16. Self Mumified? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Am i missing something how did he remove his own organs then...

    1. Re:Self Mumified? by praxis · · Score: 1

      You are missing something: knowledge of how performed his self-mummification. The cure for this ignorance is the article, which described how they believe the whole process went down. I'll save you the trouble though: we don't know who removed the organs or when, but we do have a theory for how he became mummified.

  17. News for nerds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...several days after they saw it everywhere else...

    1. Re:News for nerds... by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      A bit like Leonard in "Leonard Part 6" operating on himself.

      Terrible movie, you should see it if you want to see what happens when a huge ego is let loose unchecked.

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    2. Re:News for nerds... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fuck you for reminding me that movie actually existed.

      Now I'm going to have to spend huge amounts of money on boozes, drugs and hookers to suppress that memory once more.

    3. Re:News for nerds... by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      If I wanted to see that I'd watch C-SPAN.

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  18. In honor of Futurama... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So that's where I left my beef jerky!

  19. Re:Not interesting, and doesn't matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Nuts to you. Some of us are anthropology nerds; to us this matters.

  20. Re:Not interesting, and doesn't matter by OrangeTide · · Score: 0

    Remember when this was a tech news site?

    No sir, I do not.

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  21. 1000 years before Intel... by AchilleTalon · · Score: 2, Funny

    1000 years before Intel, the advertising slogan "Monk inside!" was invented.

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    1. Re:1000 years before Intel... by MechaStreisand · · Score: 0

      You are not funny.

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    2. Re:1000 years before Intel... by WillKemp · · Score: 0

      You are not funny.

      You mean you didn't find it funny - which is not the same thing at all.

      I found it funny, therefore the gp is funny.

  22. The museum speculates.... by santax · · Score: 1

    .... Liu Quan may have 'self-mummified' in order to become a 'living Buddha.' They found out that Liu Quan's internal organs had been removed and replaced with scripts covered in Chinese writing. Uh, what??? Being Dutch, I like the Netherlands and I like our 'coffee'shops. But seriously, keep the academics away from the pot!!!!

  23. That was me ... by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

    I did not take that reincarnation stuff serious at that time. My mistake.

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    1. Re:That was me ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Man I made the same mistake, now here we are right f'ked.

  24. Re:Not interesting, and doesn't matter by peragrin · · Score: 1

    After the tenth year of the linux desktop not happening, tech news fell to the side. Sort of like the end of worlders on xx date.

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  25. We have a winner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the undisputed hide-and-seek champion of the world.

    1. Re:We have a winner by HornWumpus · · Score: 1

      He is just the most recent loser. The champion is still hidden.

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      John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  26. Re:Not interesting, and doesn't matter by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

    The year of the Linux desktop already happened, but now desktops are no longer relevant.

    Better late than never Linus!

    (X-day is coming July 5, 1998)

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    “Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
  27. It is not funny, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    it is hilarious!