Re:  "Malibu Barbie".
I laughed so hard when I read this I fell outta my chair and just about
broke my ass!

Reminds me of when we would dig in a friend's backyard.
I was in second grade and  this took place behind an old house in Torrance
California where I spent 6 months while the house was being built on the
peninsula.

Apparently the area where my friend's house had been built was a 'dump' at
one time. We would extract vast amounts of curious  treasures out of the
ground and with an overactive imagination you can just  almost hear the
stores we could tell people about what we were finding.....

The big find in  the side yard of the house I was living at though was the
oil deposit.  Background on this was Torrance had lots of oil wells so it
... seemed to make sense we would also have one...... as it turned out, as
eexplained by my father,  the side yard had just had oil dumped on the ground
for eons where people had been changing car oil and actually went  fairly
deep into the ground!

ed sharpe archivist for smecc


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"Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Jerry writes:
>
> > I don't know if this is true or not, but certainly
> >  is interesting...
>
> Dear Mr. Fochtman,
>
> It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must inform you that
the
> letter you have presented us with appears to be a fraud. This finding is
no
> less surprising given the enormous amount of misinformation that appears
on
> the internet. For those of us who practice science, the level of
> misinformation and misrepresentation that currently graces the web has
only
> served to reinforce in us all the value of careful peer review and the
proper
> citation of authority.
>
> Sadly, we must also deny your request that we approach the Library of
> Congress with your note. Although I tenaciously fought for the inclusion
of
> your note in the National Archives, I was unamiously voted down at every
> turn. In our researches, we can find no evidence that a Harvey Rowe ever
> worked at the Smithsonian Institution. Even worse for your case, the
> Smithsonian neither now nor ever has had an Antiquities Department.
>
> Yours in literature,
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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