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[dr_who_2]

You don't say. I just recently came upon this interesting tidbit in The Tuskaloosa Institute of Nature and Frequently Obscure Information Letters:

Dear Sir:

Your paper on the ancient practice of using sheep's bladders to prevent earthquakes should finally bring an end to the controversy that has plagued discussions on the subject for years. However, you fail to take into account a little known fact that King Arthur and his knights wore armor NOT to protect themselves in battle, but to prevent their their minds being invaded by the space aliens, the very same devious space aliens who destroyed Atlantis some 2000 years before. Back then, it wasn't very well understood what part of the body was responsible for thinking, so they had to cover themselves completely just to be safe. What's more, their technology wasn't good enough for them to produce lighter, more comfortable tinfoil. Fortunately, these days every low-born peasant can afford to wrap tinfoil around his head and protect himself. Cell phones are also common place, and they help to generate interference that further blocks out the effects of alien energy probes. Getting back to Arthur, some have theorized that the holy grail was not actually a cup but a special kind of satellite dish ....

[RightWhale]

There is some doubt that Arthur took his army to Gaul at all. He might have gone east from Wales to fight the Saxons without leaving England, He might have got only as far as Birmingham. There are a lot of stories in antiquity about a golden land to the wast, Arcadia, a rustic paradise. It's possible they were based on some knowledge of America 500 AD or 1500 BC. Ship travel between old and new world would have been undependable, and they didn't have radio, probably, so word of the new world would have been spotty. There is no question that many people came to America and have been doing so for a long time. Maybe some person named Madoc who was also well-known before he left the old world mounted a fair-sized expedition. Or maybe Avalon was Ireland.

[Maximum Leader]

What, no Dudley Moore jokes?

[Norse]

Yea, actually it was a Norwegian named Leiv Eiriksson who discovered the new world - first European on New World soil

[SunkenCiv]

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