Bonekickers .. gets kicked

[BAJR Host]

Mr. Hosty will have to change his signature?.. hmmmm you may be right.... let me think

and sparky... what are you suggesting

"Gie's a Job.."
Prof. 'Dolly' Parton

[gorilla]

Mr Hosty

How's about "I do have an archaeological imagination afterall"

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[BAJR Host]

I did have one until 15 years of commercial archaeology slowly eroded it until all I was left with was an imagination preserved in situ. ?

"Gie's a Job.."
Prof. 'Dolly' Parton

[Sparky]

Was that a curatorial decision to leave your imagination preserved in situ?

'Mum!!! Can you get me the toilet roll, please!'

Noam Chomsky

[mercenary]

Well the lead actor is currently in the remake of Survivors, so marginal talent hasn't hurt her career. Then again she has much better script and dialogue to work with.

Incidentally I find it very interesting that this classic program has been remade in this time of turmoil.

[chiz]

a worldwide flu pandemic would certainly put the present economic situation in a different perspective...

[Jean M]

Or 21st Century Plague? Rat Fleas Spread Heart-damaging Bacteria: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...222844.htm

[Windbag]

"Bring out yer dead!"

[gorilla]

Well the lead actor is currently in the remake of Survivors, so marginal talent hasn't hurt her career. Then again she has much better script and dialogue to work with.

Did some thinking last night (now my brain hurts):face-thinks:

As Joolie Graham has now thrown in the trowel with Bonekickers and has taken on the role of a Survivor... just wondering what would happen if archaeologists inherited the earth?

If the vast majority of the earths population was wiped out by some plague (or whatnot) and only archaeologists were left, would there be hope for the future of humankind? If it were just archaeologists... what would we (you) do? Assuming we'd actually got throught the teething problems of just surviving (food shortages, no electricity, virtual anarchy, no Big Macs and no televison) and got through to the wonders of self-sufficency... would we band together and happily dig till our hearts content? Or would we go our own way and work alone? Assuming that the cities weren't riddled with disease, rats, rabid dogs, gung-ho vigilantes and corpses (hey... no change there to the daily life to todays professional archaeologist), would you set up home in the British Museum? Or, would you start digging up yer 'perfect' (and once probably scheduled) site? "Today, I's mostly digging up Avebury". Perhaps you'd start a collection of Iron Age gold torcs... hmmmm... shiny. Perhaps, finally write up that niggly site that has been on the back-burner for the last three years and then award yourself a PhD from the university of your choice. Would you turn up to a watching brief (assuming they are still needed/required... yeah, right!) in a Porche Cayenne? Hey, perhaps you might even start metal-detecting (go on... you've always wondered what it felt like).

Or maybe, just maybe... you'd give it all up for a nice, secluded (reclusive?) home on a Scottish loch, raise sheep and grow veg, drink copious amounts of Talisker and procreate like bunnies to re-populate the human species?

I dunno... the possibilities are endless (although I'm intrigued by my last one)

[oldgirl]

I always reckoned that archaeologists would have a much better chance of keeping going, assuming any of us survived in the first place, than most people. Quite apart from having a much more useful skills base, we are also used to physical work in bad conditions!

I could see a number of points at which we would all go 'ah, so THAT'S what this was used for.....' as well. [8D]

Personally I wouldn't go for the torcs.... maybe the swords..... or maybe all the other weapons, the sword is pretty much the only weapon that isn't much good for anything else!

I'd be North Wales rather than a Scottish Loch though.