D'oh, it's Homer McSimpson! Stunned Scottish couple unearth '800-year-old' stone head

Daily Mail ^ | 12/25/11 | Charles Walford

[JimSEA]

Luminescense dating most likely.

[Hunton Peck]

Homer probably thought there were at least twelve...

[AuH2ORepublican]

“Artefact” is an older spelling of the word; I thought that it was obsolete, but maybe not in Blighty.

[Red Badger]

They’re just looking for some doh......

[dfwgator]

"Aye, there's only room for one Scotsman around here!"

[COBOL2Java]

It's the ancient Druidic "Doh!" worship.

[Waverunner]

Homer must have had quite an Odyssey. Scotland or Bust

[Dysart]

That stone looks awful clean to have been buried all those years. My first thought was maybe it was a caricature of a Pict, but since it doesn’t appear antiquated, I’m not too sure about it.

[sinanju]

The problem is it was all mossy when they found it and, unthinkingly, they cleaned it up before bringing it in.

All washed and wire-brushed. I don’t know how any lab could get around that.

Microscopic nooks and crannies?

[Dysart]

Video Of Authentic Pictish Stones

[Dysart]

Oh, I didn’t read that they’d scrubbed away any clues. How unfortunate.

[null and void]

*groan* Ye gads! I think I’m going to be Iliad..

[Mamzelle]

My first thought—a rainspout gargoyle from a church. Carving them gave the masons a little humor therapy...is it hollow, and could water run out its mouth?

[sodpoodle]

Since it hasn’t been tested - why is it even described as ‘800’ years old?????????

Or have the couple and reporters already determined it is related to the 13th Century Church?

[MS.BEHAVIN]

“Yes, but you can’t tune a fish ;) “
Why not?
It has scales!
;0)

[a fool in paradise]

It was buried right next to the Cardiff giant.

[JoeProBono]

[Las Vegas Ron]

ROTF......Merry Christmas!

[JoeProBono]

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Merry Christmas to you, too!
;0)