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Ancient Brits Used Human Skull-Cups.
The Stone Pages ^ | 17 February 2011 | PLoS One

Posted on 02/19/2011 1:48:54 PM PST by Little Bill

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Another example of man living intune with Giaia, in peaceful harmony with nature, and worshoping the Mother goddess. A time when no person harmed another.
1 posted on 02/19/2011 1:48:59 PM PST by Little Bill
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To: Little Bill; SunkenCiv

Can’t keep a good Englishman from the local ping.


2 posted on 02/19/2011 1:53:02 PM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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To: Little Bill
Thought it was “bottoms up.”

Makes sense though,the fanny bone don't hold water.

3 posted on 02/19/2011 1:53:30 PM PST by Happy Rain ("Implementing Obamacare now is like arresting motorists for driving sober--there ain't no such law.")
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To: Little Bill

Hoarders!


4 posted on 02/19/2011 1:53:52 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: SunkenCiv
And some of us Celts still do.

Oh crap.....did I just say that out loud?

5 posted on 02/19/2011 1:57:27 PM PST by Salamander (I can't sleep...the clowns will eat me.)
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To: Little Bill

All of the people used for this purpose were either named Williams or Sonoma.


6 posted on 02/19/2011 2:09:54 PM PST by edpc (It's Kräusened)
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To: Little Bill

I’d like a beer, please. With a head on it.


7 posted on 02/19/2011 2:23:21 PM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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Good old West Country Dark Ale, so high test you could power your car with it.
8 posted on 02/19/2011 2:25:19 PM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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To: Salamander
The Irish invented “crying in your beer” this way the tear duct conduits of the skull cup can do that for you.

Bought “School's Out” when it first came out on vinyl—lotta memories,some sober some not of old AC.

The freaky old fart has still got it.

9 posted on 02/19/2011 2:28:28 PM PST by Happy Rain ("Implementing Obamacare now is like arresting motorists for driving sober--there ain't no such law.")
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To: Little Bill

I remember reading a memoir by someone —a Greco-american -—whose mother had died in WW2 in Greece. When he was a small boy the villagers made him drink wine or something from her skull.

Odd, though; 14,000 years ago? That was during the Ice Age.

It was possibly a funeral ritual, not cannibalism.


10 posted on 02/19/2011 2:31:57 PM PST by squarebarb
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To: Little Bill

But only after using the freshly severed heads to play a couple of rounds of an early form of rugby.


11 posted on 02/19/2011 2:35:07 PM PST by Calusa (The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
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To: squarebarb

Sucking marrow from the Jaw bone a funeral ritual? Sounds like dinner.


12 posted on 02/19/2011 2:38:28 PM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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To: Calusa

Australian Rules Rugger is not for the faint hearted.


13 posted on 02/19/2011 2:43:35 PM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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Another example of man living in tune with Gaia, in peaceful harmony with nature, and worshipping the Mother goddess. A time when no person harmed another.

And then those evil Christians came along and ruined Paradise.

14 posted on 02/19/2011 2:58:14 PM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: Little Bill

“…now come on, take a little walk with me, honey, and tell me, who do you love? Yeah, who do you love?…”


15 posted on 02/19/2011 3:19:21 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Little Bill

Anyone who believes that man is more violent today than in the past has not studied history.


16 posted on 02/19/2011 3:21:29 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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With out a doubt but try telling that to the hippies in the archaeological union.
17 posted on 02/19/2011 3:31:27 PM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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Hippies were and are fools.


18 posted on 02/19/2011 3:36:57 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Little Bill

Are skulls dishwasher-safe? Can you use them in the microwave?


19 posted on 02/19/2011 3:46:02 PM PST by AZLiberty (Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
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To: Salamander

Slainte! :)


20 posted on 02/19/2011 3:55:07 PM PST by dljordan ("His father's sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him")
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