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The world’s oldest paycheck was cashed in beer
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Posted on 06/29/2016 7:23:28 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Homer Simpson approves.
To: ameribbean expat
People ate beer from a bowl back then I guess
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:27:36 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: ameribbean expat
..... One of my favorite documentaries is entitled “How Beer Saved the World.” This was actually covered in it even though it was produced back in 2011. In other words .... This ain’t new news .... it’s olds.
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:27:48 PM PDT
by
R_Kangel
( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
To: R_Kangel
Did they mention that in a few areas, beer had natural tetracycline in it, which improved resistance to diseases?
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:28:57 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: ameribbean expat
Ok. Ya got me. Ya got the tater.
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:32:14 PM PDT
by
Eddie01
To: ameribbean expat
They sure it just wasnt a bar tab?
They are also trying to imply some sort of socialism, too.
Çatalhöyük, in what is now Turkey, was one of the first towns. Houses and human remains dating from its foundation some 9,000 years ago are all very similar, suggesting equality. Everyone was involved in small-scale farming or hunting, says Ian Hodder, an anthropologist at Stanford University in California who has excavated at Çatalhöyük since 1993. No one owned the land, and produce was shared.
And they know that because . . . ?
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:36:14 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: ameribbean expat
Of course it was! Even if they paid in cash it would have been spent on beer. And for damn good reason.
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:36:26 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(Blame others for your failures? Take credits where none are do? Who made you Pharoh?)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Obviously you have gazed upon said film!
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:39:06 PM PDT
by
R_Kangel
( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
To: ameribbean expat
We're more advanced these days. Now we have to think of things other than beer, such as cups to put the beer into and refrigerators to chill it. Recently translated from the cuneiform is a song about it:
Do, the stuff that buys me beer
Ray, the guy who sells me beer,
Me, the guy who drinks the beer,
Fa, a long way to get beer,
So, I think I'll have a beer,
La, la la la la la beer
Ti, no thanks, I'm drinking beer,
That will bring us back to - DOH!
Homer Simpson, Sumerian nuclear engineer
To: ameribbean expat
Work has been the curse of the drinking class from way back.
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:48:02 PM PDT
by
Hieronymus
( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
To: ameribbean expat
“Houses and human remains dating from its foundation some 9000 years ago are all very similar, suggesting equality. Everyone was involved in small-scale farming or hunting, says Ian Hodder, an anthropologist at Stanford University in California who has excavated at Çatalhöyük since 1993. No one owned the land, and produce was shared. The residents of this city are unlikely to have considered their daily chores work, says Hodder. My view is that they would see it as just part of their daily activities, along with cooking, rituals and feasts that were such an important part of their lives.”
Hodder got all of that above from the fact that the ruins showed uniform dwellings? You don’t suppose Hodder’s socialism is projecting do you?
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:53:27 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Hieronymus
It does insert itself at the most inopportune times.
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
06/29/2016 7:55:56 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
06/29/2016 8:03:41 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: ameribbean expat
hmmm... pretty sure it was salt.
it’s where we get the phrase “he ain’t worth his salt”
not bothering to look it up right now..... besides beer and salt go good together anyhoo...
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posted on
06/29/2016 8:05:37 PM PDT
by
sdpatriot
("Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.")
To: ameribbean expat
“Homer Simpson approves.”
So do I. ;)
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posted on
06/29/2016 8:20:23 PM PDT
by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: R_Kangel
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posted on
06/29/2016 8:22:34 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: ameribbean expat
To: Eddie01
Nothing to do with the oldest profession I take it?
To: George Washington Axe
They probably didn’t take checks (or beer for payment.)
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posted on
06/29/2016 8:56:01 PM PDT
by
Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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