The Flag and Emblems of New South Wales - NSW Government

'..great hunter Wamili was struck blind by lightning the Kwinis, tiny bush spirits, made the cluster of small flowers of the waratah more rigid so the blind hunter could distinguish it "..

In Iceland over 50% have some belief in elves and roads are diverted to avoid their homes. Rock-drills and other tools broke when an elf hill was being cut for road works, stopping the construction.
Irish roads are diverted around homes of wee folk and some Scots believe in them. NSW government ?

ta be sure, ta be sure, ta be sure.

Romans had their heads screwed on and Yanks copied Rome with the Congress building and the eagle of Jupiter carrying arrows. The Roman army aquilifer carried the eagle of constellation Aquila "eagle". Zeus of the democratic Greeks was an eagle-man of planet Jupiter and had eagle with thunderbolts in Aquila with a consort vulture.
A Greek king in India raised Heliodoris pillar with Garuda eagle on top, of Aquila. It carried Batara Guru of planet Jupiter, and today is Indonesia's airline.
Bunjil is an eagle-man of Melbourne whose camp-fire is planet Jupiter and has 2 crows in Aquila . He throws stuff at bad people like Zeus , Jupiter and the Pentagon. But not at the elves or wee folk being a sensible sort of chap.

Paleoanthropology Division
Smithsonian Institute
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC 20078

Dear Sir:

Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute labeled "211-D layer seven next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull." We have given this specimen a careful and detailed examination and regret to inform you that we disagree with your theory that it represents "conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Charleston County two million years ago."

Rather it appears that what you have found is the head of a Barbie doll of the variety one of our staff who has small children believes to be the Malibu Barbie It is evident that you have given a great deal of thought to the analysis of this specimen and you may be quite certain that those of us who are familiar with your prior work in the field were loathe to come to contradiction with your findings.

However we do feel that there are a number of physical attributes of the specimen which might have tipped you off to its modern origin:

The material is molded plastic. Ancient hominid remains are typically fossilized bone.
The cranial capacity of the specimen is approximately 9 cubic centimeters well below the threshold of even the earliest identified proto-hominids.
The dentition pattern evident on the "skull" is more consistent with the common domesticated dog than it is with the ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time. This latter finding is certainly one of the most intriguing hypotheses you have submitted in your history with this institution but the evidence seems to weigh rather heavily against it. Without going into too much detail let us say that:
The specimen looks like the head of a Barbie doll that a dog has chewed on.
Clams don't have teeth.

It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must deny your request to have the specimen carbon dated. This is partially due to the heavy load our lab must bear in its normal operation and partly due to carbon dating's notorious inaccuracy in fossils of recent geologic record. To the best of our knowledge no Barbie dolls were produced prior to 1956 AD and carbon dating is likely to produce wildly inaccurate results.

Sadly we must also deny your request that we approach the National Science Foundation's Phylogeny Department with the concept of assigning your specimen the scientific name "Australopithecus spiff-arino." Speaking personally I for one fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated and didn't really sound like it might be Latin.

However we gladly accept your generous donation of this fascinating specimen to the museum. While it is undoubtedly not a hominid fossil it is nonetheless yet another riveting example of the great body of work you seem to accumulate here so effortlessly.

You should know that our Director has reserved a special shelf in his own office for the display of the specimens you have previously submitted to the Institution and the entire staff speculates daily on what you will happen upon next in your digs at the site you have discovered in your back yard. We eagerly anticipate your trip to our nation's capital that you proposed in your last letter and several of us are pressing the Director to pay for it.

We are particularly interested in hearing you expand on your theories surrounding the trans-positating fillifitation of ferrous ions in a structural matrix that makes the excellent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex femur you recently discovered take on the deceptive appearance of a rusty 9-mm Sears Craftsman automotive crescent wrench.

Yours in Science
Harvey Rowe
Curator Antiquities