scatts
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Post by scatts on Aug 23, 2007 1:57:18 GMT -7
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Post by ludikundera on Aug 23, 2007 3:03:21 GMT -7
These are neat! I especially like the little guy with the sword and the bug-eyes. Who is he?
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 23, 2007 4:01:05 GMT -7
Ohhh a quiz. Lets see how badly I do:
photo 1. a belt buckle
photo 2. a pig that flies and Zosia she is getting so big and cuter and cuter and looking more like her Mom.
photo 3. bangle bracelets etruscan? or Eygptian?
photo 4 hieroglyphics the famous Rosetta Stone that one I know
photo 5 Mummy coffins
photo 6 carved marble statue of a king with a sword
photo 7 display in a museum hallway
photo 8 looks like one of the statues off of Easter Island
photo 9 The London Eye...world's largest observation wheel
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Post by hollister on Aug 23, 2007 5:34:52 GMT -7
I want a swing at this one as well
photo 1. a pin used to hook your cloak on the shoulder
photo 2. I think Chris nailed this one
photo 3. They look Celtic to me - I think they are funerary finery
photo 4 Again I think Chris nailed the Rosetta Stone
photo 5 Chris comes in with another winnre
photo 6 I am going to guess that this is a King from a chess set
photo 7 It looks like there are some kind of carvings on the wall - not sure what they are
photo 8 Yep, an Easter Island statue - with nipples!!!!!!
photo 9 You let the cat out of that bag on this one - The London Eye
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Post by suzanne on Aug 23, 2007 6:36:03 GMT -7
I can't really add much to the two lists above, except that in photo 2, that piggy thing makes me think of a wooden mock-up of a medieval gargoyle (before the actual gargoyle itself was carved out of stone). And the very cute thing next to this piggy thing must be your lovely daughter!
And photo 7: I'm guessing that the stone relief lining the hallway is originally from a Greek or Roman temple.
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Post by leslie on Aug 23, 2007 6:46:08 GMT -7
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
1. Zuzia's old nappy pin
2 Zuzia's friend from Warsaw coming out of the ground to visit her
3 Chris's (RDY) valuable collection of anti-arthritis bangles
4. Ian's last monthly newsheet that went all wrong
5. Pawi's preparation for the eventual day
6. Wayne rolling dough for bread
7. A meeting of all the Forum in a mansion in Boston
8 & 9. As suggested.
(Honest folks, I'm only joking {I think})
Leslie
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Post by bescheid on Aug 23, 2007 7:45:01 GMT -7
Ok Scatts, break it clean, how were you able to discover our viking booty?
Ok:
1. Is my lost viking belt buckle, I want it back, some louse used a trick back sword swing and cut it off.
2. Oh dear! So that is what happed to August! He was our Draken Boot maskot, oh dear, he was gifted with looking through the fog of your misty isles.
3. Various gold booty, stolen by those thieving Kelts-we want it returned.
4. Rosetta stone, worlds 1st translator machine, very stone accurate....
5. One of those ladies is an old lady friend {very poor lover}, still just as cold, but lovely to look at.
6. Kings piece on chess board {never good at that game}
7. This one is easy-it is the great hall of Babble.
8. My old friend from Easter Island-he taught in 1948, Thor Heyerdahl, to build a Kon-Tiki raft that would float. So this is where he ended at...
9. What I stay away and out of.
Charles
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Post by hollister on Aug 23, 2007 7:51:36 GMT -7
Ok Scatts, break it clean, how were you able to discover our viking booty? Ok: 1. Is my lost viking belt buckle, I want it back, some louse used a trick back sword swing and cut it off. Charles! I'd be glad that that was all he cut off! |
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Post by kaima on Aug 23, 2007 8:44:10 GMT -7
Well, I am a bit late after some excellent listings, but will add some just for fun, cribbing only from memory:
1. the English version of modern glass architecture, similar in spirit to the Prague Singing tower, the Paris pyramid & German Reichtag dome. Neat looking apparition!
2. visitor from Easter Island
3. Egyptian bowling alley with an extra leg in the middle (known in the 1940’s in the US as ‘pins’ on females).
4. King Harold after Hastings.
5. Egyptian visitor lost a LONG time in the hall of mirrors.
6. Rosetta stone.
7. Keltic jewelry – nice stuff!
8. Can’t beat the flying pig theory, but that cloth rabbit reminds me of my little sister’s lambie – she still has it decades later, though it looks half shorn! I hope this one brings as much joy.
9. Looks like cowboys were not the ones who invented the large belt buckle, though this one may fit a cloak better.
Nice photos, thanks for sharing!
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Post by rdywenur on Aug 23, 2007 9:18:38 GMT -7
Leslie and Charles.....where have you two been hiding this humour of yours all this time. Great answers. I was peeing my pants reading the answers you guys came up with. Kai we already know yours. Don't hold back you guys are all on a roll.
My other answer for #2 was a pig doing the "Fonz" impression for Zosia. ;D ;D
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Post by scatts on Aug 23, 2007 10:37:07 GMT -7
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Post by scatts on Aug 23, 2007 13:36:31 GMT -7
On with the show! A few of the more interesting shots: I like this one  Street Art  Street stupidity  Museum art  I like this one too  Not what you expect to see in Trafalgar Square  |
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Post by scatts on Aug 23, 2007 13:37:21 GMT -7
Here's the lads - left to right - me, James, Steve, Richie, Greg. Seems most of us have known each other for over 40 years now!! (I'm not that short. I think they were standing on a small step....honest!)  Missing from the gang shot were - Brian, who was playing the organ (and he's damned good at it too..)  and Ian (left) who was the groom. His brother (right) here doing an impression of Dubbya.  And I can't leave out my girls   |
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Post by scatts on Aug 23, 2007 13:38:07 GMT -7
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Post by leslie on Aug 23, 2007 13:46:57 GMT -7
Ian
You choose the funniest friends!!
Leslie
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