Mammoth ivory?

[Vagrant]

I thought Siberia is just too far away to go and collect mammoth ivory so I drove over to the La Brea Tar Pits. But to my shock the tusks are all covered with black gooey stuff! http://www.tarpits.org/

The best "wax" to use

[ateam940]

Hello. I have read that Russian nobility was still hunting and bagging Wolly Mammoths until the late eighteenth century. Just over two hundred years ago. Dave

[JerrBear]

Hello. I have read that Russian nobility was still hunting and bagging Wolly Mammoths until the late eighteenth century. Just over two hundred years ago.

Mr. ateam940,

What the hell is a "Wolly Mammoth?" What the hell are you reading?

If you mean by "hunting," 'looking for,' and if you mean by "bagging," 'putting inna bag,' you are probably correct...

Otherwise, slap yourself inna face and go stand inna corner because you really are "out there!"

[Teddy]

Hello. I have read that Russian nobility was still hunting and bagging Wolly Mammoths until the late eighteenth century. Just over two hundred years ago. Dave

The "experts" are all convinced that mammoths became extinct around 10,000 yrs ago... but they have been known to be wrong before..

All the best
Teddy

[ateam940]

A woolly mammoth is a heavy coated mammoth common to colder portions of the northern hemisphere. Mammoths are any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the pleistocene epoch. Distinguished by molars with cement filling the interstices, also by the large size, very long upcurved tusks and well developed body hair. The Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is known not only from fossil remains but from paleolithic drawings and from entire cadavers unearthed in Siberia. I am afraid my source about hunting and killing these critters is somewhat weak as it is from a novel. Read 'Poland' by James Michener, it is in there. The fact that cadavers are still found intact is evidence that these elephants have been extinct for a very short time, at best, so there is a good possibility that these animals were still present recently enough to have been hunted by modern man. Hint to JB: try a dictionary next time.

[JerrBear]

I am afraid my source about hunting and killing these critters is somewhat weak as it is from a novel. Read 'Poland' by James Michener, it is in there. The fact that cadavers are still found intact is evidence that these elephants have been extinct for a very short time, at best, so there is a good possibility that these animals were still present recently enough to have been hunted by modern man. Hint to JB: try a dictionary next time.

I'm speechless!

[natcherly]

That stuff about Russian Nobels hunting the Wolly Mammoth sure sounded like a shaggy dog story to me.

[tequiza]

The "experts" are all convinced that mammoths became extinct around 10,000 yrs ago

Poppycock i say
Why just two years ago i had a pink one charge the still in the back woods
It was a hell of a fight,it knocked me out but i must have ran the beast off
When i woke up it was gone,and no damage had been done
teq

[natcherly]

teq,

Next time drain the anti-freeze out of the radiator before using it as your condenser. Product will be smoother with far fewer hallucinations, not to mention blindness and brain death

[tequiza]

Natch,
Thanks for the advice,I'm still new at this
I wondered why my customer list has been dropping the last couple of months
teq

[JerrBear]

The "experts" are all convinced that mammoths became extinct around 10,000 yrs ago

Poppycock, I say
Why just two years ago I had a pink one charge the still in the back woods.
It was a hell of a fight - It knocked me out! But I must have ran the beast off.
When I woke up it was gone, and no damage had been done.

Mr. tequiza,

MOS' funnyness!

(I'm not so sure no damage was done).

HO! HO!

[The Falcon]

Hello. I have read that Russian nobility was still hunting and bagging Wolly Mammoths until the late eighteenth century. Just over two hundred years ago. Dave

You know what pranksters those Siberian peasants can be.
This was the big-game equivalent of the "Potemkin Village." Some merry/drunken villagers raided some local zoos and appropriated a small herd of ordinary everyday elephants. To the purloined pachyderms they "Super-Glued" some bear hides and attached some carved tree trunk extensions to the tusks.
Thus when Cathy the Great and her royal hunting party dispatched the hairy beasts they actually thought they had bagged some honest-to-goodness genuine wooly mammoths!
(as I write this I'm almost starting to believe my own stuff - I have to stop this right now)

[Vagrant]

Mammoth meat has been served by Russian royalty but it was dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. It was edible but not very tasty since it had been frozen for several thousand years.

[JerrBear]

Mammoth meat has been served by Russian royalty but it was dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. It was edible but not very tasty since it had been frozen for several thousand years.

Freezer burn?

[Vagrant]

Mammoth meat has been served by Russian royalty but it was dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. It was edible but not very tasty since it had been frozen for several thousand years.

Freezer burn?

Yeah no-one was there to wrap it originally