From: spani@mprgate.mpr.ca (Leonard Spani)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Ride on John's Back, Please! (Was: Re: Get Off John's Back
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:41:28 GMT
Followup-To: talk.religion.newage,alt.alien.visitors,sci.skeptic
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada

In article <64356@cup.portal.com>, John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com writes:
|>      SUBJECT : THE OSTERICH PEOPLE
|>       
|>           In an isolated village of the jungle reigion of Zimbabwie, Africa 
|>      there is a group of about 100 people who are called the Osterich 
|>      people.  They are called this because of their unusual feet. Their 
|>      feet are shaped like the feet f an Osterich, having only two large 
|>      toes on each foot , but these are pretty bigso they can get good 
|>      traction when it comes to trudging though the jungle mud. These toes 
|>      are also very nimble, and can be used to pick things up. They are a 
|>      dark skinned race of people and other than their feet, they look like 
|>      anyone else.
|>           A French team  headed by famed anthropologist Dr. Etienne 
|>      Charbonal were investigating tthis group of people and eventually got 
|>      there confidence. A group of the Osterich people (if not all of them) 
|>      showed up one night, minus their clothes, having silver paint all over 
|>      their bodies and invited the good doctor for a midnight hike. After 
|>      going into the jungle for hours, the doctor  and team were shown a 
|>      large silver dome. Most of the space craft was covered with 
|>      vegitation. The native people then began to dance wildly around the 
|>      craft singing a song to their ancestors  of the sky.
|>           The dome was like nothing on earth. On the way back, from the 
|>      craft, one of the elders of the group told Dr. Charbonal that  200 
|>      years ago, the large "spinning sun" had fallen from the sky, bringing 
|>      the tribal ancestors to this remote part of the jungle  area.  That 
|>      was all anyone rembered.
|>           More will be known when the French team returns to the jungle  to 
|>      study the UFO.
|>      Information source: Sept. 26,1989 Sun pg. 7.
|>       
|>         I'll leave you with this saying; if it wasn't for the optimist, the 
|>      pessimist would never know how happy he isnt.
|>         This is being posted for Don Showen  for  John Winston.  I am not 
|>      Don. Don is not me.


You know what the funny thing about this article is?

The "Osterich People" actually exist. I have read about it in "National
Geographic" or some similar magazine. No kidding. If I remember right, about
33% of the people in a village had this genetic anomaly in their feet. I have
seen pictures of the people and the special sandals they wear. Their feet
give them no advantage, but they also give them no significant disadvantage,
so the "mutation" or whatever it is stayed around.

As far as the silver-nude-dance-a-thon... 


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