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Navvies looking for Atlantis

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Who would be surprised if any one or more of the world's railways has sent guys with picks and shovels looking for Atlantis, if only tasked as for training purposes?

Even though Atlantis is nothing more than a myth, mind you.
 
Mojo said:
Who would be surprised if any one or more of the world's railways has sent guys with picks and shovels looking for Atlantis, if only tasked as for training purposes?

Even though Atlantis is nothing more than a myth, mind you.
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I find this quite plausible
 
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I think everyone knows that NAAFI stands for Navy, Army and Air Force Institute, but my dear old Dad (WWII Navigator/Bomb Aimer on Wellingtons and Mosquitos) once told me what it really stood for...


No Ambition And ****-all Interest!



.... shut up Eccles
 
I was going to make a joke about nazi's looking for Atlantis, until I found while googling- they actually did!!!

So even a joke thread can `learn ya something new....'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_archaeology


Amt Rosenberg

A smaller, more professional group of archaeologists, at least in their background and training, was led by Rosenberg and part of his Amt Rosenberg organisation, the Reichsbund für Deutsche Vorgeschichte. It was staffed with archaeologists who signed on to some of Rosenberg's later thinking and theory. Rosenberg saw world history as shaped by the eternal fight between the 'Nordic Atlantic', the pure-blooded Nordic people of Atlantis, and the 'Semites', or Jewish people. To him, only the Germanic people brought culture to the world, while Jews brought evil. He speculated that the people of Germany were survivors from Atlantis who had migrated to Germany
 
Mojo said:
Who would be surprised if any one or more of the world's railways has sent guys with picks and shovels looking for Atlantis, if only tasked as for training purposes?

Even though Atlantis is nothing more than a myth, mind you.
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If I see an Atlantian on a train with a gun...

Wait, would I even recognize an Atlantian gun?

And is Atlantian even the right denomym?

ETA
Wikipedia gives Atlantine and Atlantean for adjectives and Atlantean and Atlantan for people
 
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The US Navy is finally getting rid of the blue "aquaflage" so I guess they won't be invading Atlantis after all.
 
Dabop said:
I was going to make a joke about nazi's looking for Atlantis, until I found while googling- they actually did!!!

So even a joke thread can `learn ya something new....'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_archaeology


Amt Rosenberg

A smaller, more professional group of archaeologists, at least in their background and training, was led by Rosenberg and part of his Amt Rosenberg organisation, the Reichsbund für Deutsche Vorgeschichte. It was staffed with archaeologists who signed on to some of Rosenberg's later thinking and theory. Rosenberg saw world history as shaped by the eternal fight between the 'Nordic Atlantic', the pure-blooded Nordic people of Atlantis, and the 'Semites', or Jewish people. To him, only the Germanic people brought culture to the world, while Jews brought evil. He speculated that the people of Germany were survivors from Atlantis who had migrated to Germany
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Considering that Rosenberg allegedly held all Jews to be evil, he sure had a very Jewish sounding name.

The Nazis eventually rejected his crackpottery, in favour of the even greater crackpot theories that were "researched" by the "Ahnenerbe".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe
 
Mojo said:
Who would be surprised if any one or more of the world's railways has sent guys with picks and shovels looking for Atlantis, if only tasked as for training purposes?

Even though Atlantis is nothing more than a myth, mind you.
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Atlantis is under water, hence I think the navvies would sink. Also picks and shovels are poor tools for moving water.
 
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