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bakula@my-dejanews.com wrote on Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:46:32 GMT:
: In article <hmccullo.44.362A3957@pop.service.ohio-state.edu>,
:   hmccullo@pop.service.ohio-state.edu (Hu McCulloch) wrote:

: > Custard apple is one of the other New World crops Gupta
: > finds in Pre-Columbian temple sculptures, so if this is what
: > is depicted, it would equally indicate some transoceanic
: > contacts.  Nevertheless, the sculptures Gupta and Johannessen
: > show look much more like maize than custard apple.
: > (see eg the one I link on my page,
: >   <http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/maize.html> )

: My dear Hu,

: I am not taking any side on this argument. I came late on the scene. Knowing
: Indian penchant for stretching the truth

[snip yet more racist comments]

I regret to descend to the gutter with you by answering this post, but
does the name Johannessen (the leading recent researcher of precolumbian
Asian maize) sound Hindu to you?

: I have not senn and nobody in their sane mind can claim that they have seen a
: bell shaped maze,

Just what are you talking about now?

Please take a look at these photos. They are not bell shaped.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~carljohann/

Regards,

Yuri.

Yuri Kuchinsky -=- Toronto -=- http://www.trends.ca/~yuku

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, 
it is time to reform  -=O=-  Mark Twain