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    Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City

    Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice

    World’s Oldest Pot Stash Offered an Afterlife High

    2,400-Year-Old Drug Paraphernalia Found in West Indies

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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Shocking. Another city was built on the same site as another one, an area that has good farming and port access. Who would of thought.
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    Image of MiriamCadish MiriamCadish
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Miltary derived technology at work, this tech is used to find things from minefields to mass graves.
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    Image of HarrisonHizat HarrisonHizat
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    I'm an archaeologist, and I ask myself this question almost on a daily basis... especially how treasured all of our junk will be! On the field, we get overexcited about finding the silliest stuff...
    I'm afraid it'll have to be way more than 1000 years, since everything is much more durable now.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    @HarrisonHizat: I wonder what your far-flung future colleagues will wake of the sudden reduction of disposable plastic food containers in some regions due to the switch to compostable materials. "What the hell, did they all start eating less?"
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/30/09

    @HarrisonHizat: Your comment reminded me of the first Indiana Jones movie, when Belocq tells Indy that a $10 pocket watch buried in the sand for 1000 years would be priceless.
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    Image of NotMandatory NotMandatory
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Aerial archaeology is pretty amazing, and even much smaller settlements can sometimes be seen quite clearly.

    Here are a few galleries (a mix of personal websites and professional organisations, mostly European):
    http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/aerial-archaeology/aerial-archaeology.htm
    http://www.ohioarchaeology.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&
    http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/aerien/en/index.html
    task=view&id=233&Itemid=32
    http://www.armadale.org.uk/archaeologyindex.htm#Photography

    And some short introductions to aerial archaeology:
    http://www.archaeologyexpert.co.uk/AerialArchaeology.html
    http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1188
    http://www.univie.ac.at/Luftbildarchiv/index.htm#TOC
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/30/09

    @NotMandatory: Cool links, thanks!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    No, no, no! This is clearly a message from the aliens warning us that the upcoming solar storm will turn the Earth's Van Halen Belt into suspenders. This will invert our chakras and make all food taste like Funyuns®.

    The only way to avert the catastrophe is if we all wear pink robes ($49.95 available at my website) on the 9th of October to signify our acceptance of the Spiritual Transcosmic Convergence® as taught by the ascended Tibetan Dolphin Crystal Masters™.

    IT'S BASIC SCIENCE! WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Yes, my great and wise leader. I shall do as you command. Do you take AMEX?
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    Image of braak braak
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Bullshit, man. I want some Van Halen suspenders.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    @braak: Fine, don't come crying to me when your chakras start squirting out of your elbows.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/30/09

    @TemporalSword: Oh yeah sure, that's a good start. Now get in the van with the others, were gonna hand out flowers at the airport. Then it's back to the compound to perform the Annointed Oil Wrestling and the Washing of the Dozen Sacred BMWs.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Grey, Grey, have you been talking to raellians lately?
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    Image of I'm Waitin' for Dolemite I'm Waitin' for Dolemite
    07/30/09

    @Grey_Area:

    Your ideas intrigue me sir. Praytell how if one might wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    Makes you wonder what outlines of cities today they will find in 1000 years.
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    Edited by TemporalSword at 07/30/09 11:34 AM TemporalSword was starred TemporalSword was unstarred
    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    07/30/09

    In reply to Aerial Photos of Italian Farms Reveal Outline of An Ancient City
    That's freaking awesome.

    Anyone else hoping the streets would turn out to spell UNDER ME?
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    07/30/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Someone needs to tell Eustace and Jill, the lazy, easily distracted punks.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    07/30/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Srsly. If a giant undead lion with a god-complex told ME to remember something, you better believe I would.
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    07/30/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Any day with a random Silver Chair reference is a good day.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/30/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Is it a complex if you really are God?

    Also, I would probably say undead celestial dire lion. haha nerd it up nerds.
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    07/30/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:
    Actually, I think the undying template would fit better than undead.

    You can't out nerd me sir.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    07/30/09

    @Belabras: Technically Aslan got his Jesus on in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe when he sacrificed himself for Edmund’s screw ups. So if you’ve ever made a reference to zombie Jesus (and really, who hasnâ€t?) then you’re going to have to go with Zombie (aka undead) Aslan as well.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    What's that in his mouth? A fossilized tongue?
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Is this the origin of brickbats?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @AmishJohn: Ha-HAW!!

    Good one!
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Let the Right Brick In
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/11/09

    @Mount_Prion: God that was dumb. Fucking idiot.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Mount_Prion: We still love you! Don't hate yourself!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    This may just be the remains of an ordinary lithophagous Venetian. Poor lady choked to death whilst eating a dich or Linguine Carbonara, with real chunks of Carbon.
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    Image of pinkiedeathhead pinkiedeathhead
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    It seems that having grave diggers dig around in pits of plague victims might have been not the best way to prevent disease from spreading. I'm just sayin'.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @pinkiedeathhead: Yeah, but this was back during the days of communal drinking cups at wells and whatnot. Delicious.
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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Coming soon from Sci-Fi:


    SHARKS VS. VAMPIRES IN VENICE!

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    Image of mad love for Astrid mad love for Astrid
    03/11/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: Sharks vs vampires the funniest thing i've read all day.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @mad love for Astrid: *puts on Literalist glasses* But vampires can't stand running water! This is not a valid competition.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: [adjusting leather jacket w/ tweed elbow patches]

    Ah, yes. But what my esteemed colleague may have forgotten is that all the available lore tells us the undead (and indeed, most servants of Darkness) cannot cross fresh, running water.


    As Venice is built upon a salt-water lagoon a conflict between Carnaval-costumed vampires and sewage-loving sharks seems almost inevitable.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: If I had a briefcase I'd stuff it full of cash and throw it at you!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: "How can you throw a suitcase when your hands have been chopped off?"


    Oddly enough, this is also one of the least popular Zen Koans. The 14th Century monk who originated it, BonkĹŤ, was forced to eat masonry blocks smeared in powerful laxatives. BonkĹŤ is more well known as the inventor of the "Brick Shithouse".

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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Snrk!
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    Image of All_Thumbs All_Thumbs
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: How about a change of venue for the next SciFi flick? Vampires vs. Land-sharks in New York?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @All_Thumbs: Harrumph! Land-sharks? Preposterous, an urban legend.

    All my extensive research clearly sh-

    *ding-dong*- eh? Pardon me, there's someone at the door.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: "HI, WE'RE LAWYERS"
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Foolish mortals, you cannot sue that which does not LIVE!

    HIIISSSSS!!!

    Waitaminnit,

    it's the middle of the day, isn't it?


    oh drat.


    [COMBUSTS]

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Vampire lawyers would just sue the sun for monopolizing light.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Well those Wolfram & Hart bastards certainly made an ash out of me.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Okay, I'll stop now.
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    Image of Illogic Illogic
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: Probably for the best. Another stray comment about land sharks might upset the Street Sharks:
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Illogic: Damn the YouTube blocking, but Street Sharks! Fuckers tore up the streets every fucking episode, jackasses.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: HEY! There's no need for language.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @Grey_Area: If it were not for language we would not have conversations of such intellectual depth, resorting to primal grunts and hand gestures to convey our feelings. Feelings on sewer sharks vs. vampire mimes.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Plus if I remember, the Street Sharks were never held liable for the wholesale destruction of all that asphalt.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc:


    .

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Well, that or flinging poo.
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    Image of Joe Meils Joe Meils
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    It's sooo obvious, what's about to happen... someone, handling the skull, will accidentally cut themselves, drip a bit of blood onto the skull... and then the horror will begin again...
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    Image of WiseGuy487 WiseGuy487
    03/11/09

    @Joe Meils: Or, worse, that someone accidentally cuts himself on one of the sharp teeth, somehow gets infected by the old "vampire" blood, and...


    The rest pretty much speaks for itself.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @WiseGuy487: Then a horrible movie with sparkling vampires emerges?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/11/09

    In reply to Black Plague "Vampire Skull" Found in Venice
    Did they also chop off their hands?


    Cause to be honest, if I were undead and I awoke with a brick in my mouth, I feel confident I could find ways to work around that particular obstacle.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Actually, I figure a vigorous headshaking would take care of that.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: You totally would have been lead vampire while I was sitting around trying to figure out how to get the brick out of my mouth without any hands.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/11/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Lead vampire... WITHOUT HANDS! Quickly deposed and overthrown by the flexible vampires who used their feet to remove the bricks.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/11/09

    @crashedpc: Foot-Flex Vampires? I wouldn't want to be around for that anyway. Such an unlife would not be worth unliving.
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