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would be nice to see some curators with balls don`t you think?
..knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity..(imam ghazali,ayyuhal-walad)
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Some years ago was taking a taxi ride to a station in Merseyside.
Taxi Driver asked me what I did and where I was working and I told him I was an archy and digging in Droitwich.
"Droitwich? Never heard of it"
"Quite an important place in medieval England y'know, supposed to have a lot of info about it in the Domesday Book"
"Aagh eh! The Doomsday Book! That Nostradamus...he really knew his stuff didn't he?"
Pause
"Er...yes"
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Quote:quote:Originally posted by Tim
When working in a well known Royal castle recording a late 11th century round tower a group of American tourists came up with "gee it's beautiful but why did they build it so close to the railway station"
Very similar incident happend to a friend in Orkney (I think!?) when several American tourists asked him how the builders of the Broch had been given permission so close to the airport!
Girlfriend had a good run in with American tourists at the temple in Karnak. Their Gameboy playing son turned to his mother and asked where is all the civilisation and good stuff (whatever that is!?)
Did enjoy allowing a group of tourists to "overhear" me comment that "this much sulphur leaving Vesuvius probably is not a good sign...." whilst wearing my Geology and Archaeology jumper from uni. That reduced the queues for ice creams }
Apart from that I just get the usual dinosaurs, gold, Time Team! Have been asked when telling someone what I do whether I design buildings or whether I'm like Indiana Jones or more worryingly Lara Croft
Usually get the now boring, "hilarious" lines "Think my wifes down there somewhere" or when, I'm kneeling down trowelling "Will you say one for me whilst your down there", can barely stop my sides splitting or stop my trowel meeting their forehead at high speed (need to drink less coffee }
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My girlfriends mum turned up on site once, while I was in the office for the day. Apparrently she yelled through the Heras fencing "Have you found my vibrator, its about twelve inches long and buzzes". She said there were looks of horror all round....:face-approve:
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Well when people ask me about what my interest in archaeology or ask what I am doing at university. Geoarchaeology baffles people - someone said to me is that to do with mud - and now calls me a mud expert. Always the Time Team comment, though when I went to a wedding on my mums side of the family - they all know me as the archaeologist and tell me about places they have been and things they think are a find etc.[?] Turns out to like rocks etc Lol
I then found out that the person joining our family had people in her family who helped find 'Lucy' (hominid skeleton) in Africa. Was totally amazed.[:0]
My own boyfriend when introducing me says Im a dinosaur hunter
just to annoy me as he finds that amusing. The good old school and college days when everyone assumed i did something like indiana Jones and Lara Croft - which I replyed - I know I'll look very nice in lycra and some guns round my waist :face-confused:
Down below the mines and sea ooze and fake fossil bones put there by the creator with nothing better to do than upset archaeologists and give them silly ideas. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fanastic
