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Cat drags in new theory on cairns
BBC ^
| Friday, 4 August 2006
| the staff cat-ologist?
Posted on 08/04/2006 6:30:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Emma Sanderson, of Caithness Archaeology Trust, said it was found that a dead rabbit had been left in the replica by a cat... She said it was previously thought that animal remains found in actual cairns were left as ceremonial offerings. However, the cat's dead rabbit has provided a new theory that they had been killed by other animals years after the cairn had fallen into disrepair. Another theory about cairns may also have been exploded after archaeologists knocked down their mock-up. It was noted that the stones collapsed in a pattern previously thought to be evidence of ceremonial closing of the cairn.
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Ever have the eerie feeling that you know something is going to happen before it happens?
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08/04/2006 6:30:55 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: Coleus; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
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posted on
08/04/2006 6:32:02 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, July 27, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SunkenCiv
Ever have the eerie feeling that you know something is going to happen before it happens?I knew you were going to say that...
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posted on
08/04/2006 6:46:33 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Bolton/Rice '08)
To: SunkenCiv
Cairn understand everyone's surprise...*rimshot*
;-)
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posted on
08/04/2006 6:48:13 PM PDT
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annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: SunkenCiv
"The actions of a domestic cat have thrown up"Those dratted hairballs again ...
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08/04/2006 6:50:21 PM PDT
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annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: null and void
I was tested, and turned out I had PSE -- extrasensory perception for dyslexics.
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posted on
08/04/2006 6:53:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, July 27, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: annie laurie
:') It's nice to be appreciated in one's own time.
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08/04/2006 6:55:10 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/04/2006 6:56:35 PM PDT
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annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: annie laurie; nickcarraway
"The actions of a domestic cat have thrown up"
Those dratted hairballs again ...
Tabby, or not tabby. That is the, well, you know.
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08/04/2006 6:56:41 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Tabby, or not tabby. That is the, well, you know.Ay, there's the rub ;-)
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posted on
08/04/2006 7:01:18 PM PDT
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annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: SunkenCiv
To: annie laurie
Ay, every inch a king.
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08/04/2006 7:09:47 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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08/04/2006 7:14:44 PM PDT
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annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: annie laurie
If mewsic be the food of love, play on.
okay, that was absolutely the last one...
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08/04/2006 7:44:57 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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The cat was just being a Bast-ard.
To: SunkenCiv
Is this a tiger I see before mine eyes?
[now that's the last one]
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posted on
08/04/2006 9:36:09 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
To: SunkenCiv
p.s...that has be read in the local highland-southern dialect to be truly appreciated.
['tiger' is pronounced roughly as 'tagger']...;]
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posted on
08/04/2006 9:38:40 PM PDT
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Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
To: Salamander
A tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide... :')
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posted on
08/04/2006 9:48:04 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
A tabby in a teacup, full of sound and furry; signifying nothing......;]
[now really, we must stop or they will turn upon us and devour us]
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08/04/2006 9:54:48 PM PDT
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Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
To: Salamander
Maybe just to slow the shakesperian trend...
But I could have told them about the cat-in-a-cairn solution based on research under the dash board of a '57 Ford I bought out of a barn.
Took days to get the bones and feathers out.
Since I've no intention of letting it collapse I can't comment on the likely rubble field.
(unless someone wants to donate one of those noisy hondas with plastic add-ons, huge wheels, and a muffler designed to outblast the sterio system?)
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posted on
08/05/2006 8:48:13 AM PDT
by
norton
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