Very funny, Marlo! You have a fine imagination. On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:04:01 -0400, Marlo
Krisberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>There is a little known monograph from 1502 based on data and specimens
>collected by Abe Kriesburgo while voyaging with Christoffa Corombo that
>treats the Oliva of the Caribbean.  All were definitive classified by
>Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci using undisclosed molecular identification
>technology of impeccable accuracy.  The monograph (unpublished, but passed
>down through the years via the Kriesburgo line with a specimen Leonardo
>dubbed the holotypo) assigned the name Olivo pervaso-caribbaensis da Vinci &
>Kriesburgo with a comment as to the great variability of this single species
>found everywhere in the Caribbean during Kriesburgo's three voyages with
>Corombo.  Kriesburgo fled the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
>in the early 16th century and brought the monograph to the Americas
>preserved in an inert gas filled portable vault, which after his death was
>opened for inspection only once every 50 years as per Abe's wishes.
>Unfortunately, no one was interested at the last opening opportunity in
>1961, so the monograph, da Vinci's drawings and the holotypo have never been
>photographed.  So, in another year we will have a definitive name for the
>Oliva of the Caribbean and every one can stop revising and correcting
>everyone else.
>
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>Marlo
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