VERITAS: TOUCHDOWN - LINE OF THE WEEK

This perspective from Bob Reid:

I was shocked – shocked! – when the wheels quickly fell off reports that Noah’s Ark had been “99.9 per cent” confirmed found high up on the cliffs of Mt. Ararat, just like the good book said it was. Nothing against the bible, folks, but anything that Leonard Nimoy used to tell me all about on “In Search Of …” both hooks me in and cracks me up, i.e. killer bees, UFOs, Bigfoot and the Bermuda Triangle. I’m rooting hard every time a story on any of these arises that it will at last be vindication for the Fox Mulders of the world – but alas, it’s not to be once again it seems. A disgruntled member of the group making the claim is now spilling the beans that the whole thing was a fake, but it’s the line of archaeologist Paul Zimansky, quoted in one of the stories by National Geographic, that wins the Touchdown: “I don’t know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn’t find it,” he notes, drily. That’s gold, Jerry!