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Relic manufacturers had already worked out the issue of body parts for Jesus and Mary back in the Middle Ages. Jesus' teeth were his baby teeth, while for Mary the most prized object was (this is not a joke) vials of her milk.

How the latter came to be preserved is unclear; my guess is that she tried to take them with her on the flight into Egypt, but they were confiscated by the Roman equivalent of the TSA.

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Well...it is all relative, isn't it? I mean, compared with Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, Binghamton *is* elite.

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The teeth of Jesus? Someone is desperate for some grant money

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I love your idea, dude has to earn his keep! And he's probably in the union with ganesh and Buddha and those other slackers. Just cold smoking Newports while leaning on his shovel handle. (He is black, of course)

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The teeth can't possibly be older than 6,015 years. Obviously planted there by Satan and a global scientific conspiracy.

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I can't wait until white racists learn/accept their ancestors were either Jews or Negroes.

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<i>Three of the teeth are from one individual, but the others are isolated specimens of different ages -- with two of the teeth, "milk teeth," having come from young children.</i>

Civilization's first attempt at dirt hockey.

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So wait. The professor found Gilgamesh's teeth <i>and</i> Occam's razor!?

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Oral hygiene! There must be a pre-historic Rite-Aid nearby.

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That stuff in god's snowball? It wasn't just some weird bacteria...it was plaque!

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I thought Occam's razor was a Gillette Super Blue? Now you say it was teeth? Teeth?

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Absolutely true -- made from dogwood.

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