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Ancient Britons: Iron Age riches in Cornwall
BBC ^ | Thursday, February 24, 2011 | unattributed

Posted on 03/04/2011 4:01:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: JoeProBono

WHOA! Thanks!!


21 posted on 03/04/2011 4:45:10 PM PST by Monkey Face (I've had amnesia for as long as I can remember.)
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To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv

Crap, now we can’t tell you from all the other brass monkeys around here.

They shoulda cut higher. I think a “stump” would’ve been a nice touch, being a pirate and all.

No, you don’t have to show us...


22 posted on 03/04/2011 4:45:43 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: SunkenCiv

23 posted on 03/04/2011 4:46:02 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: JoeProBono

*kof-kof*
I’ve seen those on the undersides of cars, in varying colors.
*sheesh* Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em. (She says, at the NHRA event.)


24 posted on 03/04/2011 4:48:20 PM PST by Monkey Face (I've had amnesia for as long as I can remember.)
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To: bigheadfred; paulycy

25 posted on 03/04/2011 4:51:09 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: SunkenCiv
I was in Cornwall about 20 years ago, and visited some sites associated with the Arthurian legend, including:

Tintagel:

Dozmary Pool:

You'd love Cornwall!

26 posted on 03/04/2011 4:53:37 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: bigheadfred
As the descendant of a Fat Bellied Saxon from SW England, you lost, we won, get over it!
27 posted on 03/04/2011 4:57:15 PM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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To: JoeProBono

Worst boob job I’ve ever seen.

We probably coulda got up a collection or something.


28 posted on 03/04/2011 4:58:00 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: Little Bill

Dang!

It’s free beer day and no one told me.


29 posted on 03/04/2011 5:07:34 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: SunkenCiv
We're all Britons ...
30 posted on 03/04/2011 5:12:47 PM PST by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we revolt.)
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To: Pharmboy
All I know about Cornwall I learned on Doc Martin. ( ;-D

Great show !!!

31 posted on 03/04/2011 5:13:17 PM PST by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...</i><p>)
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To: Larry Lucido

Whar are the dimensions of this “castle”? It looks fairly small.


32 posted on 03/04/2011 5:24:04 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: Larry Lucido

That’s Rogers’ Tower in Ludgvan. An 18th century folly.


33 posted on 03/04/2011 6:06:56 PM PST by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Lmo56

Sorta defines the quirky Brit sit-com, eh?


34 posted on 03/04/2011 6:57:57 PM PST by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d love to travel to both Wales and Cornwall someday!


35 posted on 03/04/2011 7:06:12 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Pharmboy
All I know about Cornwall I learned on Doc Martin. ( ;-D

We discovered that show, recently, and just LOVE it!

36 posted on 03/04/2011 7:09:38 PM PST by SuziQ
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Sorta defines the quirky Brit sit-com, eh?

I told my wife that it reminds me of Northern Exposure - a "fish out of water" Doc in a town full of characters ...

37 posted on 03/04/2011 10:45:33 PM PST by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...</i><p>)
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To: SuziQ

Ditto.


38 posted on 03/05/2011 4:55:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv

WT-?

That picture looks like a key ring with someone’s bronzed testicles attached.

Cornishmen had weird sense of humor?


39 posted on 03/05/2011 7:44:09 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: wildbill

See post 10 ;-{)


40 posted on 03/05/2011 7:52:03 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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