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As a detectorist... I often have folks asking the age old question 'found anything mister?'.. when at first you dont reply, they totally ignore the fact that you are wearing headphones and thinking you must be deaf.. scream the same question in your ear at the top of their voice.... now you are deaf.....
The kids are the worst, when beach detecting, the little feckers will throw pennies in front of you just to watch you 'find' then... bless em....
Or
'Found anything good mister'... when you show them the nice tudor clothes fastener, or medieval buckle and explain what they are, they look at you with a blank expression and say, thats a shame perhaps you will find something nice later....[:0]
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Well, it's not so long ago that Archaeologists thought we lived in holes in the ground in both prehistory and dark ages Britain.
"Dig your garden? No thanks, I only do shallow graves. Interested?"
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I'm glad I am in the office on my own - sitting here chortling to myself
Unfortunately unlike the time I read the Double Entendre thread and had to leave the room when it described someone standing up and yelling "I've got wood". I actually cried.
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Steve-B
The kids are the worst, when beach detecting, the little feckers will throw pennies in front of you just to watch you 'find' then... bless em....
Pocket them and go and buy an ice cream - that'll "learn em"
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On a site in Glasgow many years ago we were greeted every day by cries of 'whit ur ye buildin' here?'. Not too bad, you might think, until a spectactularly thick MSC digger turned round to me and asked 'so whit ur we buildin' here, by the way?' So much for a month of induction and training. I think I broke down in tears.
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so you get PAID for doing this??
or from someone who had just spent the past two hours watching us clean a site "I wouldn't have the patience to do your job"
"Why does it take you xx months when Time Team does it in 3 days??"
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Sooooo........
Why does it take you xx months when Time Team does it in 3 days?...
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Steve-B
Sooooo........
Why does it take you xx months when Time Team does it in 3 days?...
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My rather acidic response to that one after being asked it too many times was, "Because we emply skilled excavators who like to do a proper job, not a bunch of media luvvys backed up by a bunch of old dodderers"
I wasn't in a good mood that day}
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The basic "are you an archaeologist?" (no, I'm a fireman/scuba diver etc...)
The inevitable "what's the most valuable thing you've ever found?" (a ditch...) and "I bet if you found something valuable you'd keep it. I bet that's what they do" (stony stare).
The annoying "I thought you did it all with little brushes" (resist urge to bury mattock in questioner).
The possibly apocryphal "why did they build their sites so far away from main roads" (never heard it myself but my, ahem, ex-wife did ask why archaeological remains are always at thetop of very large hills).
We owe the dead nothing but the truth.
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My personal favourite respnonse when asked if we are the time team is ,'No, we're archaeologists.'
