Bad news, good news
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shewhomustThe bad news is that Jean Redpath has died. I associate her with the early days of the folk revival, and with the Burns project; but it seems that she had not faded away altogether, she had simply moved to America. YouTube tries to distract me with her collaborations with Garrison Keillor, but Burns is the better poet. This is over-arranged for my taste, but there's nothing wrong with the voice, the melody, the words:
The good news is that archaeologists have found a wooden Roman toilet seat - at Vindolanda, where else?
The good news is that archaeologists have found a wooden Roman toilet seat - at Vindolanda, where else?
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Date: 2014-08-29 09:22 pm (UTC)The article said that the seat had been 'well used'. Now I'm wondering how they determined that. Polished by countless Roman tushies through long dark winter nights untold...
Oh fabulous, they're planning to put it on display!
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Date: 2014-08-30 06:03 pm (UTC)That is EXACTLY what I thought! But then, whoever wrote that piece thinks that Vindolanda is on the Wall, so what do they know!
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Date: 2014-08-29 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-08-29 11:33 pm (UTC)The toilet seat!! We have been using the same model for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
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Date: 2014-08-30 06:10 pm (UTC)Because it works. And here's the sort of bathroom it works in:
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Date: 2014-08-31 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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