Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
After an exhaustive search of Loch Ness using 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology, the BBC has announced the murky Scottish waters definitively free of any trace of Iraqi WMD. No, wait, I mean free of any trace of a large living animal, to the great disappointment of cryptozoologists the world over.
American intelligence documents on the matter remain classified, but administration sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suspect that the Scots may have transferred Nessie to Syria just before the start of the search.
TrackBackwait a minute - the husband reports they found pleiosaurus fossils.
Posted by: owlmother at July 30, 2003 01:40 PMNot the BBC. The Pleiosaur fossil was found by a retiree a week or so earlier. But that doesn't mean much since the fossil is 150,000,000 years old and Loch Ness was created as a glacial trough about 12,000 years ago. And National Geographic reports that scientists have determined that these fossils, while real, almost definitely came from somewhere other than Loch Ness. Wrong rock type, and they show signs of having been in salt water for long periods of time (burrowing sponge holes and the like). Yet another hoax.
Posted by: apostropher at July 30, 2003 01:59 PM