A Dublin Viking Archer Viking Archer with viking type long bow And Viking Rus trader/Raider with Step recurve bow
Posted on 10/23/2009 10:17:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Its unbelievable what we do with our history!
cool. Lets build us a wall city with towers to shoot at liberals who want to steal our food.
I see at the “Wood Quay” link that they incorporated the Viking wall into the interior of the building... that’s pretty cool.
You don't already have your own towers built?
Nobody steals my food!!
A Dublin Viking Archer Viking Archer with viking type long bow And Viking Rus trader/Raider with Step recurve bow
Curiously enough the wife and I were in Dublin earlier this year. We visited Christchurch, and viewed the Viking exhibit. Can’t remember looking through the wall. Drat!
That was probably easier than tearing it down. :’)
Forgive me for taking a ruler to you hands this morning. You have struck a nerve with me on your comment about your trip to Dubin (a lovely city). PLEASE don’t refer to your wife as “the” wife. She is YOUR wife. Better yeat, why don’t you call her “my loving and beauteous wife”! She’s NOT an object like your car. In fact, I would hazard a guess that you probably refer to “my” car, so why not “my” wife?
Down off my soap box. Best regards for the rest of the day. :)
I will be sure to tell the wife, excuse me, she who must be obeyed of your displeasure with my remarks.
Anything that winds up beyond living memory (through attrition) seems to be fair game. A friend once told me, yes, European countries have older stuff around, but we can’t seem to keep anything. Well, Europe has had the same problem, not least because of internecine warfare over a thousand years long. Those lovely oppressive castles (the real ones, not the romantic versions built later) were superceded by technology (torn down, added to, rebuilt) until cannon made them obsolete. They were abandoned, or blown to bits, or pulled apart for the stone.
Works for me. :’) I guess dinner at the blams’ is out...
Hmmm, I have one friend that refers to the light of his life as “the wife-creature” and another that introduces his wife as “my current wife, Arlene”. Neither lady seems to mind I guess every relationship is different.
My grandfather used to call my grandmother “Harpy”, and they were married 50 odd years.
I think it would all be in the delivery.
LOL. I just meant that it sounds disrespectful to your loving (I’m sure) wife to not claim her as your own. I doubt that you would like it much if you overheard her referring to you as “the old man”, or “the old SOB”.
Or, maybe not.
It takes a new mindset to preserve history for posterity. We have an 1870 era courthouse and jail. The courts are moving out to a new building with better security. County staff started looking at partial demolition and remodel. Some of us insisted that they take the museum director and local hostorical society through to identify important historical architectural features. They can then showcase a decorative cornice or “interpret” the jail by featuring an old cell door set up in the remianing portion with historical interpretive verbage. This way we create an interesting tourist attraction in addition to our gold exhibit.
Problem will be that there is no money available to do this. It will probably get stored and eventually destroyed when posterity shows less appreciation than we did.
The biggest problem could be plugging all the tunnels that periodicaly flood the basement. We are built in an old mining area and it is like Paint Your Wagon all over town. Seems the local shopkeepers preferred to travel underground down mainstreet during the winter. I am told the local hotel used to provide food and beverage service to other establishments that way. (Probably helped during prohibition as well.)
I talked it over with my significant other, my better half, she who must be obeyed, i.e. my wife, and she does not object to being called “the wife.” In fact where she’s from, England, it’s an old term.
I defer to her preference then. Just don’t call ME that. To you, I am “his wife”, referring to my husband. To my husband, I am “my wife”, or “my darling wife”. Anything less is demeaning — sort of like calling her “the old ball and chain.”
It’s a pet peeve of mine.
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