Tuna

part of Reverse Archeology

Tuna
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One of Georgia Lee's anecdotes about her stint on Easter Island during the 80's, when she was the first to methodically study the petroglyphs, is about the way people would ask tourists flying off the island to take packages to their relatives in Chile. (Chile is about 2000 miles away, but it's the country that owns the island, and the nearest place on the mainland.) One day, some unsuspecting fellow agreed to oblige a pretty woman and take a Christmas gift to her Dad. The gift turned out to be a whole tuna, wrapped in burlap, leaking fishy juice on the poor guy all the way over.

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