angrysoba
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What would baffle future archeologists about your home area?
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abaddon
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bruto
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I have a new one, and a little unusual. My mom, who was 91, died last week, and we had the funeral yesterday. All her life, she collected just about any variety of turtle she could find, and we had tables full of little creamic, glass, stone, and wood turtles. We had a "take a turtle" table at her funeral reception, but still had some left over, so my kids have set a few out on her property here (11 acres in rural Connecticut), in stone walls and the like. Some day, someone, we hope long long after, will find a little turtle and wonder why.
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ddt
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I like that song. It is now being sent to people who will appreciate it.
I knew there was a reason I didn't divulge my real identity. I don't like getting death threats in my mail. Or are your friends as masochistic as you appear to be? 
I don’t know why we are entertained by the thought of future archaeologists finding completely inexplicable objects. Anyone in the UK who watches any of the so called “antique” programmes will be aware of the completely bizarre objects which frequently appear. “Flog it” is one show, as is “Bargain Hunt” – a programme notable for the maniacal Anita Manning and the gorgeous Catherine Southon – mind you, Kate Bliss runs her a close second. “Put your money where your mouth is” is a rather better show.
The kind of items which sometimes appear on these shows often have no rational explanation! If you go round the average “car boot sale” or “collectors fair” in the UK, you realise what strange objects are around. The best explanation for the whole thing is that many of the items on “sale” have lost their way en route to the recycling plant.
The kind of items which sometimes appear on these shows often have no rational explanation! If you go round the average “car boot sale” or “collectors fair” in the UK, you realise what strange objects are around. The best explanation for the whole thing is that many of the items on “sale” have lost their way en route to the recycling plant.
And take one look at downtown St. Louis, say "No signs of advanced civilization here", turn around, and leave.
TragicMonkey
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And they'd learn a valuable lesson about turning their backs on anyone in downtown St Louis.
angrysoba
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On viewing that clip, one of "those who will appreciate it" remarked that maybe the Netherlands' drug laws are just a little too lax!
SezMe
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Aw, c'mon, G6000, you blew a perfectly good set up. This only makes sense if presented as below.
A 2000 ballot with George Bush's name on it.
A 2004 ballot with George Bush's name on it.
"These must predate the proverb, 'Fool me once...'"
What you mean is that the rest of them would.
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SpuriusMaximus
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You know, it just occurs to me that, given enough thousands of people in between,
A) a lot of evidence would have been destroyed, or no longer translatable, so just about anything you find in an area may lack anything to corroborate or disprove it, and
B) for lack of either, a lot of that stuff gets taken as actually representing some local custom that someone just confabulated from a few faded images on a wall.
I mean, like how we see depictions of some people apparently playing leapfrog or something with bulls, and we go, "it's believed to depict a local religious ceremony". And not, for example, "it's believed to have something to do with some completely mythical story from that time." Sometimes even stuff from fiction sagas, like that someone got a coat as a reward, are interpolated as "oh, it means they had devolved from a money-based economy to barter."
So my... well, half-way fear and half reason to giggle is that after a couple of dark ages and even more thousands of years, someone will find the first pictographic records from the great ancient American (or German, or whatever) civilization: someone's massive porn stash
Just think about all the things they could learn about how our society works.
Or I suppose it could just end up in an art museum and valued millions of whatever currency they're using. I can just see it, "And to the left you see Larry Flint's newly discovered masterpiece. We tentatively call it, 'Venus with still life up the ass.'"
A) a lot of evidence would have been destroyed, or no longer translatable, so just about anything you find in an area may lack anything to corroborate or disprove it, and
B) for lack of either, a lot of that stuff gets taken as actually representing some local custom that someone just confabulated from a few faded images on a wall.
I mean, like how we see depictions of some people apparently playing leapfrog or something with bulls, and we go, "it's believed to depict a local religious ceremony". And not, for example, "it's believed to have something to do with some completely mythical story from that time." Sometimes even stuff from fiction sagas, like that someone got a coat as a reward, are interpolated as "oh, it means they had devolved from a money-based economy to barter."
So my... well, half-way fear and half reason to giggle is that after a couple of dark ages and even more thousands of years, someone will find the first pictographic records from the great ancient American (or German, or whatever) civilization: someone's massive porn stash
Just think about all the things they could learn about how our society works.
Or I suppose it could just end up in an art museum and valued millions of whatever currency they're using. I can just see it, "And to the left you see Larry Flint's newly discovered masterpiece. We tentatively call it, 'Venus with still life up the ass.'"
Belz...
Fiend God
That horrific "artistic" pyramid in Saguenay.
http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/2/2b/Saguenay_pyramid.jpg
And yes, those are yield signs forming the outer skin of that monstrosity.
http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/2/2b/Saguenay_pyramid.jpg
And yes, those are yield signs forming the outer skin of that monstrosity.
aggle-rithm
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When I was a manager at McDonald's, we had a customer come in and complain about the big concrete pillar we had by the drive-through, to prevent idiots from driving their cars directly into the outside wall. He had scraped his paint on it, and demanded that we move it closer to the building to prevent future accidents.
I remember thinking that when archeologists dug the area up hundreds of thousands of years in the future, that concrete pillar would not have moved an inch, and would probably be the only thing left.
I remember thinking that when archeologists dug the area up hundreds of thousands of years in the future, that concrete pillar would not have moved an inch, and would probably be the only thing left.
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You guys took the "artist" responsible for that and the community planner(s) that gave it the go-ahead and dealt with them appropriately, didn't you?
Something involving hockey sticks and blunt force trauma?
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TV sets. Whether these were the centers of private religious worship or part of a global education system will be a hotly and perpetually debated issue.
Belz...
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I wish we had. I mean, I get that they wanted to build a monument following the 1996 floods, and the damage (zero deaths but plenty of property) that they caused. But couldn't they make a bigger and more impressive show ?
Ugh. I hate that thing. When my wife moved here from Japan, I took her to see the pyramid. She laughed rather hard, which I found reassuring.
Polaris
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