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Has The Roman Dodecahedron Mystery Been Solved?
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| June 3, 2014 by
| Micah Hanks
Posted on 06/04/2014 7:14:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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06/04/2014 7:14:28 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
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06/04/2014 7:17:13 AM PDT
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al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: SunkenCiv
Had you heard of these before?
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06/04/2014 7:18:13 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Looks like cheap junk made in China that you’d find at Walmart.
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06/04/2014 7:20:49 AM PDT
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fulltlt
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06/04/2014 7:21:30 AM PDT
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Paladin2
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06/04/2014 7:22:16 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: BenLurkin
To: al_c
Dungeons and Dragons precursor
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06/04/2014 7:37:27 AM PDT
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smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: HangnJudge
Used for gambling? Darning socks? In Archaeology we call such unknown artifacts—Cerimonial Items.
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06/04/2014 7:46:27 AM PDT
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COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: BenLurkin
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06/04/2014 7:48:27 AM PDT
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Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe but it seems to me that mittens could have been much more easily made with rabbit skins. Even gloves could be stitched together with hardly more work than the demo here shows. Have any roman gloves been found?
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06/04/2014 7:55:56 AM PDT
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muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: BenLurkin
Obviously, the Romans were into Dungeons and Dragons... duh.
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06/04/2014 8:00:11 AM PDT
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MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: BenLurkin
Substitute metal for yarn and you have chain mail finger protectors.
In Roman times they didn’t have 3-D printers, so the geometry and construction was likely limited to a very few, perhaps as a guild, like the stonemasons.
To: BenLurkin
Its a kitchen device used to measure out servings of dried pasta. Just match the holes to the number of people at dinner.
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06/04/2014 8:12:28 AM PDT
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PGR88
To: BenLurkin
I put my educated guess up there. They were used to weight the corners of fishing nets to improve casting in water.
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06/04/2014 8:17:48 AM PDT
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februus
To: BenLurkin
Most likely a device used by priests to divine the future. Ask the gods a question, the priest throws the item and depending on which side comes up the priest will then predict the future for the questioner.
Kind of like casting the runes.
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06/04/2014 8:43:04 AM PDT
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Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
To: MrB
Obviously, the Romans were into Dungeons and Dragons... duh. And they had real dungeons.
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06/04/2014 8:48:11 AM PDT
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ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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06/04/2014 8:58:50 AM PDT
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pabianice
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