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dexfarkinWhen they found the first thigh bone, deep in the archives in a badly labeled box, there was a sense of something greater already sneaking through the museum. After fifty years lost, the anticipation that something greater, hinted at with the bad stencils and the pre-Skan RDIS tagging lurked in the dozens of cavernous rooms and tiny closets under the gallery floors.
Dr. Prangjang, one of the premiere Paleosociologists tried to avoid speculation leaking to the press, as he assembled his team of grad students, but it was no good. The press besieged his office, live blogging his every movement and speculating that something important was happening in the most staid of public institutions.
They worked day and night in the dusty rooms, behind increased security and under the strictest confidentiality agreements that legal could find on the 'net; some barely legal clauses worked up in a West Bombay court, that allowed them to punish any leaks by liquefying and then fermenting the body of the accused, and then serving it to guests secretly at the next wedding celebrated by a member of his family.
Finally, in of all things an old cardboard Absolute vodka box, they uncovered the skull and lifted it out gingerly. They would run it through a thousand tests; radiology, cranial comparisons, DNA testing, feature modeling, but Prangjang didn't need that to be sure already. The decreased cranial capacity, the poor genetic stamp, with a slightly regressed forehead and brittle cap fusions that suggested a history of genetic duplication through incest, the smoothed holes at the base of the skull from an injury that would have rendered the brain sporadically unbalanced and borderline retarded; just holding it in his hands, Prangjang knew what he had.
The Natural History Museum of LA County opened the exhibit to the fully rebuilt skeleton of Britney Spears, found lying lost and forgotten in the bowels of the museum for decades. It would be the most complete skeleton of a pop star on display in the world, passing the Metropolitan's Clarkson and the British Museum's Piper by at least 20%.
Dr. Prangjang, one of the premiere Paleosociologists tried to avoid speculation leaking to the press, as he assembled his team of grad students, but it was no good. The press besieged his office, live blogging his every movement and speculating that something important was happening in the most staid of public institutions.
They worked day and night in the dusty rooms, behind increased security and under the strictest confidentiality agreements that legal could find on the 'net; some barely legal clauses worked up in a West Bombay court, that allowed them to punish any leaks by liquefying and then fermenting the body of the accused, and then serving it to guests secretly at the next wedding celebrated by a member of his family.
Finally, in of all things an old cardboard Absolute vodka box, they uncovered the skull and lifted it out gingerly. They would run it through a thousand tests; radiology, cranial comparisons, DNA testing, feature modeling, but Prangjang didn't need that to be sure already. The decreased cranial capacity, the poor genetic stamp, with a slightly regressed forehead and brittle cap fusions that suggested a history of genetic duplication through incest, the smoothed holes at the base of the skull from an injury that would have rendered the brain sporadically unbalanced and borderline retarded; just holding it in his hands, Prangjang knew what he had.
The Natural History Museum of LA County opened the exhibit to the fully rebuilt skeleton of Britney Spears, found lying lost and forgotten in the bowels of the museum for decades. It would be the most complete skeleton of a pop star on display in the world, passing the Metropolitan's Clarkson and the British Museum's Piper by at least 20%.
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