mandy
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Post by mandy on Mar 22, 2006 12:39:07 GMT 1
Hello nyone you really need a strong stomach for both the drink and the jokes! It is really good and you can get hooked so easily you'll not want to leave.
Anyway Paul you didn't exactly have a very sstrong stomach when you came to visit me in Newcastle, hope your better prepared this year.
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Laura
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Post by Laura on Mar 23, 2006 0:43:32 GMT 1
Owww I am going to look so lame sitting there with my soft drink lol (I will only have just gone 17 when I am going.) This is my first dig too, I hope there is at least one newbie going when I do. I can't wait to go though !
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Post by Toby on Mar 23, 2006 9:14:07 GMT 1
Don't think you would need to drink to have fun! There will plenty of others not drinking.
Just remember you will be able to laugh at all the hangovers and enjoy digging whilst others are looking for cool dark places to recover.
Loads of people just treat it as the summer holiday, which is why they have a good time... I will be there for the full 12 weeks so have to take it a lot easier.
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mandy
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Post by mandy on Mar 23, 2006 12:26:04 GMT 1
Yes Toby coz i remember you never drinking that much last year!
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Post by Toby on Mar 23, 2006 20:00:27 GMT 1
Mandy I am suprised you remember even being in York! (joke)
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Laura
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Post by Laura on Mar 24, 2006 0:28:27 GMT 1
Lol, I know really. I don't drink anyway, it's just it's never nice to be the odd one out lol.
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fee
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Post by fee on Mar 24, 2006 9:38:15 GMT 1
Drinking... Some of us have dissertation research to do in the evenings
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Paul
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Post by Paul on Mar 24, 2006 12:15:15 GMT 1
I'll be sitting next to you Laura, as I don't really drink either. I just did it last year to blend in and not be singled out. Those Archaeologists go feral when they're in a drinking pack, and it's always the weak or lame who get it - said he as he weakly limped off. Hi Mandy. Stop spreading scurrilous rumours about me (lesson to all, don't try to keep up with those Geordies on their home turf) Toby, you nose grows longer with every word. Looking forward to catching up with you all soon.
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Post by Pam on Mar 24, 2006 16:51:16 GMT 1
I'll probably be sitting in the sober corner too as I usually have to drive home ...... Consolation for sobriety is feeling well the next morning and being smug and self-righteous when other people are nursing sore heads and dodgy stomachs! For those that do over do it, mattocking in hot, humid sunshine tends to be a kill or cure .... ;D Oh, and if there is a corner for people who haven't got a clue who plays for 'Ingerland' these days you'll find me there. The conversation for first 3 weeks of the dig will no doubt be dominated by football talk so if that isn't going to crumble your biscuit you might want to bring a good book or 3 !
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Laura
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Post by Laura on Mar 25, 2006 1:50:57 GMT 1
Oooh dear! Lol, I think I will join you in that corner. My knowledge of football is so terrible that it is embarrassing if I ever try to talk about it.
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Ged
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Post by Ged on Mar 25, 2006 12:09:27 GMT 1
I hope to be still working this summer so will only be able to make it to all(yes all) the BBQs.So when are they fri or sat.Paul your drinking was an example to us all.It depends if you experienced "Aussie rules" to appreciate the compliment. I cannot wait for the start of the dig-ah summer with gazebos and cutting the grass round the edge of the trench-exactly the same as the weeks I have spent out in St.Helens,except it onlystopped raining to snow.Still smiling though,Ged
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Paul
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Post by Paul on Mar 27, 2006 7:17:16 GMT 1
G'day Ged. It might only be a small sample (like 2) but the strike rate was 100%. Based on this, I vote that next time we actually provision real meat for said bbq's. No wonder I resorted to drink.
p.s. Just in case you forgot.- It's your shout (lamb chops or pints, you decide.)
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mandy
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Post by mandy on Mar 27, 2006 8:47:29 GMT 1
Toby i always remember what's happened! It might come back to me in flashes but you know i eventually end up with a full picture. Ged are you not working on the dig this year?
Can't wait to catch up with everyone again. I actually have a hangover now which is really bad coz i have to teach this morning, hope the kids don't notice!
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Post by Toby on Mar 27, 2006 21:21:07 GMT 1
Mandy! You shock me! How can you be sure that the kids do not have hangovers?
As for Ged and BBQ shopping..... Never feed a gremlin after midnight = never let Ged shop for a BBQ. The 'King of Crisps and Dips' thinks that all meat tastes the same. even the stuff that is 98% cardboard.
I have visions of watch a Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Nightmare and them walking into a kitchen with Ged, four hundred bags of crisps and cool room full of dips......... (Ant - not those sorts of visions)
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Ged
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Post by Ged on Mar 31, 2006 13:05:05 GMT 1
Mandy I don't think can make the actual dig this year as I am now a full time professional archaelogist working for Oxford Archaeology North.But I am available to do the shopping for each and every BBQ-the menu will look something like- Pork scratchings (or donkey itchings for the real connissuer) to start,followed by my special "chips and dips" buffet.A light fricasee of grilled pink sausages (only available at the pound shop) and a free stomach pump for each guest.Only joking-actually no I aint thats good Manc food that is.Ged
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