You say they're friends but you've never met?

I missed a What Not to Wear special? I love kicky'n'all, but I missed Stacy and Clinton?

Damn.

No makemeshiver, although I had a friend named Xenia.

Mine starts with a "G" and is pronounced with a hard "g" as in "goal",
however most people use the english version as in "general" -
so no one gets it right the first time (...or ever)

Ok, back to the original question. Does everyone know I did an archaeological dig in Southern Utah?

This is really embarassing and I shouldn't even tell it but....I was once abducted by aliens and they refused to probe me.....

An obscene phone caller hung up on me.

I had one call me collect......and I accepted the charges .....

lil k, did they make you put all the dirt back?

bear, tthen he hung up on you

We did put the dirt (and rocks) back.

What did you find, littlek?

Oh, and paulaj, thanks for the image of you as Mrs. spock, now when I meet you at Penn Station you'll be easy to pick up, er , pick out.

Re: New York, cockroachs and other places:
Some friends of mine were looking to buy a place near Sarasota, Florida. When they went to look at one place there was a large snake stretched out on the living room floor, the real estate agent, completely nonplussed said, "Most of the time those things just lay out by the pool." At another house the cockroachs were not only present, they were flying across the kitchen. "Oh, roaches," said my friend's wife, "No, no, no, my dear'', said the owner, " we do not have cockroachs in Florida, those are Palmetto Bugs."

xena is shauna, all this time I have been pronouncing Xena the Warrior Princess as zeena, i'm wrong??


Joe (Step on that thing before it flys away!) Nation

ebeth:

You should know that we are very clothes conscious here in the big City. No one dresses in anything but black, but we like style and insist that everyone ELSE in the nation dress appropriately. Stacy and Clinton, although she needs a haircut and he needs to stop wearing shirts that look like neon signs, are very good at emphasizing one thing -fit. I know that sounds simple but it's true. Clothes that fit make you look better.

Now if there was some way for clothes that fit make my double chin disappear they'd have something.

Joe (stop looking at my ass!) Nation

We found pots, mano/matates, a trash heap, fire pits, a wind-break wall, and a couple of smallish skeletons. Thanks for asking.

Living in this big city, I also subscribe to the Sicilian Widow style of dressing.

Imagine my horror ( :wink: ), when I was out shopping with hamburger and mrs. hamburger last winter. hamburger was buying mrs. hamburger a lovely shawl, and asked if I'd like something (he's an awfully nice dad). I looked around and found a nice pair of Thinsulate gloves on sale (I can't do retail, even for a gift). As I stood looking at the display, wondering whether I should get the black ones, or go mad and get the navy ones, hamburger came to stand with me and said, "Get the red ones. Red goes with everything."



eh (I have proof I'm not adopted, and I got the red ones) Beth

I really need to wear my glasses. I read that as l'k telling us she found mashed potatoes in the trash.

hahaha!

Red gloves go with leopard print.

little(miss freak)k

awe littlek I knew you had it in you to be a freak

Sure do.

Who'ah that good looking guym,der?
Seed--- that's who.

When you coming to the city again?


HArumph, the manos and matates are stone tools of the period prior to 500BC (checking notes from Google to see if he's nuts) and


now I want to know more. Where was the dig and did you find anything pre-Clovis (that's the big pick-a-fight-point amongst digger types.

Joe (really digs dead people) Nation

(that would be me... thank you very much Joe.. but im taken ;-D)

Joe is right on about the stone tools. Now that I have the scanner working, maybe I could scan some old photos.

It was an anasazi site. Not Clovis. There were very few flint arrow-heads to be found, but we found flakes made during their production. The mano/matate would have been harder to take with them when they moved on, so they were left behind. There were three troughs in which grain was ground, each had a sloped floor and were seperated by thin slices of stone.

The site was a small one. There were only 3 or 4 rooms, one was likely a storage room, on was the kitchen, sort of. The last was a room with a low bench around the walls which was covered with mud-plaster. The skeletons were just outside that room.

Before we started to dig we had to build the shower stalls (outdoors), dig the out house pits, clear a road to the site, and clear the rocks and sagebrush off the top of the area.

As far as I know, they never wrote up a site summary so I don't know the exact date of the place.

Why'd you get out of that profession, littlek?

Probably for the same reason my sister-in-law did -- no work.