[Humour] Oldest material on earth discovered according to the BBC

Norman Potting

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51099609

How many of the more mature posters hear the voice of Eric Morecambe announcing "...they've found one of Des O'Connors joke books.."

 

lawros left foot

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Worthing

• Jan 14, 2020

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Or Glenn Murray’s first pair of football boots.

 

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Brovion

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Norman Potting said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51099609

How many of the more mature posters hear the voice of Eric Morecambe announcing "...they've found one of Des O'Connors joke books.."

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Fake news. Everybody knows that the oldest material on earth is the Hackenthorpe rock in North Ealing which is two trillion years old.

 

Publius Ovidius

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Brovion said:

Fake news. Everybody knows that the oldest material on earth is the Hackenthorpe rock in North Ealing which is two trillion years old.

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This will whoosh anyone born after 1970

 

Notters

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Presumably this meteorite was beyond the farthest reaches of the galaxy when it got knocked off course by Ulloa's penalty?