[blam]

GGG Ping.

[isthisnickcool]

DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We
take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the
week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal
affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?

[Hegemony Cricket]

Maybe they were building a bridge to the 21st (BC) century?

[RedFred In A Blue State]

I've got the Sierra forest outside my back yard. I know in my trekking back there I've seen sticks and stuff sticking in the ground. I'm going to look "to see how deep they were buried" and I might very well "work out they may be some 2,500 years old" as well. I'll let you know on Monday...

[Pylon]

[joem15]

That's pretty good pine to last 5000 years in a Bog.

[I still care]

"but it could be religiously significant – as a place for offerings to the gods. Or, even more symbolically, it could have been a place where the dead were laid out."

Ever read motel of the mysteries? I wonder if these people have any idea what they are talking about.

"Each part of the "Toot'NC'mon" Motel is catalogued and fitted carefully into Carter's map of the site as a tomb and funeral repository. Even the Hot and Cold water initials on the "water trumpets" are taken by Carter as meaningful, namely, as his initials. The shrine, "carved out of a single piece of porcelain" is used to pray to their gods in song. The famous (because it appears on a paper ribbon sealing the shrine) chant is worked out phonetically by Carter to be "Sanitized Before Using" .

The altar is a TV set on a dresser - the drawers are for depositing offerings for the gods, Carter postulates. "

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Unam Sanctam]

This could have been due to the onset of warmer and wetter weather, as until then the landscape had been characterised by woodland and heath, but raising water levels killed the trees and the mire began to form.

So George Bush was causing global warming back then too? So he can time travel...

[Dustbunny]

Neat !!!

[Vicomte13]

"This platform could have been used for a number of reasons. We believe it is too big for a vantage point for hunting, but it could be religiously significant – as a place for offerings to the gods. Or, even more symbolically, it could have been a place where the dead were laid out."

It could have even been the scaffolding for a great ancient fortress of enormous size, which burnt down, fell over and sank into the swamp!!!

But maybe it was just a footpath.