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24th February 2012, 03:51 PM
The depths of knowledge displayed by Tom and Kevin have left me feeling astounded and not a little inadequate. I promise though, that on the next archaeological project I work on (if ever) I will be sporting a bow tie in reverence.
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24th February 2012, 07:27 PM
What !!! Just a bow tie?
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24th February 2012, 09:50 PM
I think we should develop a whole uniform for archaeologists bow-tie included - Knee breeches, shoes with huge brass buckles and a velvet jacket with excessively frilly shirt underneath. Somewhere in the direction of Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who with an extra splash of bad taste.
Builders would never snicker at us again.
Oh yes - and a velvet hat a la Rembrandt!
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25th February 2012, 04:44 PM
Something to do on 'rained-off' days, knitting the long colourful scarves? And knackered wheelbarrows could be gently lump-hammered into Daleks in the tool store
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25th February 2012, 04:55 PM
No no no, the long scarf was Tom Baker I'm talking Jon Pertwee - the latterday Worzel Gummidge. Although daleks into wheelbarrows is an excellent idea. Maybe the hats could be knitted, a knitted Rembrandt hat would give a Bob Marley touch.
This discussion about typologies has certainly taken a rum turn . . .
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25th February 2012, 05:13 PM
Apologies, all those doctors blur together in a memory already befuddled by asteroid impacts and the like. Maybe we could broaden it out and issue all the workforce with small flutes? (or is that too obscure for the younger readers?)
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25th February 2012, 05:54 PM
Small flutes? I sense an apocalyptic double entendre approaching . . .
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25th February 2012, 06:40 PM
It wasn't a flute, it was a recorder (assume we're talking Troughton here).
er... So my Mum tells me...
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25th February 2012, 06:48 PM
Phew that's a relief! For a moment there I saw the four riders and all of them with a filthy grin on their face - mind you death always has a grin. How about a sonic screwdriver (not a cocktail) and an attractive assistant.
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25th February 2012, 06:59 PM
Twas what came before the sonic screwdriver - damn small if it was a recorder (or did they just look bigger at school cos we were smaller, and why haven't the music teachers yet been brought to book for mentally abusing their charges, hearing London's Burning still brings me out in a sweat...), he used to just whip it out of his trouser pocket without warning :I
