Luíseach
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Post by Luíseach on Oct 19, 2006 19:02:24 GMT 1
This is turning into a "whose essay is the weirdest" competition, isn't it? Personally I think the prize should go to either the reindeer herding, or Ellie's charmingly incomprehensible titles. However, the lecture i had on male prostitutes in Tennessee today was rather excellent. Particularly the terminology our charmingly incoherent russian lecturer used to describe the acts in question...
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Post by ellie163 on Oct 19, 2006 22:25:22 GMT 1
taphonomy = the study of processes of preservation and modification and how they affect information in the fossil record Not that it helps me do my essay. There's too much science and statistics, i just wanna go dig in the mud
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Post by Gill T on Oct 20, 2006 9:50:24 GMT 1
I think taphonomy sounds jolly interesting. You'll have to sit down and tell me all about it, Ellen.
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Post by guitarmanrich on Oct 20, 2006 11:13:05 GMT 1
Taphonomy still looks like it should refer to the noise that a group of tap-dancers makes when badly out of sync with each other...
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Post by Ness on Oct 20, 2006 17:59:11 GMT 1
LOL! Taphonomy is excellent. In gerenal terms it's the study of the rate of decay/state of preservation of a 'thing' and why some things survive or decay quicker than others, in the buried environment. There's an option here entitled 'The Taphonomy and Chemistry of Human Remains'. Tasty, eh? For some reason the word 'mush' has just sprung to mind ;D What the hell are you being taught, Luiseach? Male prostitutes and sex with lizards? Are you parents aware of this? Ellen, science and stats? God help us all! However this may give you comfort. We have a 2 hr, yes I said '2hr', stats class on a Wed. We were offered the option of having the second hour purely for those who were having a little difficulty. 1st hour = 40+ students. And the 2nd hour? 36! Nuf said I have only two essays; neither of them able to claim a prize for be weird or exciting. Do have my first exam in Archaeometallurgy on 10th Nov. It's worth 50% of the unit and 5% of my degree mark, so no pressure then . It's all intense. That said, the letters MSc, one would expect, should have told me that I might have to do a little 'science' somewhere along the line In fact, it's ALL SCIENCE and NO V****GS... I'm coping! And looking forward to the Reunion no end!
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Ness
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Post by Ness on Oct 20, 2006 18:04:46 GMT 1
PS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MANDY!
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Luíseach
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Post by Luíseach on Oct 23, 2006 11:33:55 GMT 1
After spending a charming 36 hours in wessex (Haven't been properly dry since 6 am saturday morning) looking at sconehenge among other things... arrived back for a bio anth lecture: I do want to be an archaeologist!I do I do! Anything except evolutionary biology! In the (possibly paraphrased) words of my charming lecturer: Ay em ay yukrayneean evolushionary biologist.In old country ay do not chave to teach these stoopid ferst years. Whay do they not yunderstyand that the chairy eear syndrome is not passed through the y chromosome. Eeet ees not anchestral. Luíseach: Chelp me. p.s. He did show some rather attractive pictures of the aforementioned hairy ears.
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Post by guitarmanrich on Oct 23, 2006 11:46:58 GMT 1
;D ;D
I'm sat in the communal library computer suite thingy (since I have no internet and my computer committed suicide on Thursday). I think people probably think I'm going mad giggling at my computer screen!
It must be anthropologists. Two of ours spring to mind: one looks and sounds like a posh English Father Jack. he used to show us lovely things like his holiday photos among the Inuit and videos of female circumcision. Another (winner of the best name in St Andrwes competition: Paloma Gay Y Blasco) was a Spanish lecturer with a very strong accent who used to accompany her lectures on sex with appropriate slappy hand gestures close up to the microphone.
I gave up anthropology.
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Luíseach
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Post by Luíseach on Oct 23, 2006 15:35:29 GMT 1
You had Paloma Gay y Blasco?!I had to write an essay on her last week! Wooh!-Sex and gender with spanish gypsies.Fun...
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Post by fee on Oct 23, 2006 16:27:13 GMT 1
You went to "sconehenge"?!?!?! Was there cream and jam too...
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Post by guitarmanrich on Oct 24, 2006 9:01:39 GMT 1
What can I say - Dr. Gay is a leg-end
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Post by keiths on Oct 24, 2006 16:42:11 GMT 1
"You went to "sconehenge"?!?!?! Was there cream and jam too..." After domestication of wheat in the Neolithic it was only a short step to the development of the scone, and thence to its use as ritual building material. Q:How many archaeologists does it take to change a lightbulb? A:None, it should be left in place for future generations. Keith (deperately trying to avoid going back to his essay)
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Luíseach
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Post by Luíseach on Oct 24, 2006 17:08:28 GMT 1
Re: Sconehenge: There are only so many things you can do whilst on a bus whose occupants smell of wet dog. I chose to imagine Stonehenge as a baked creation. Was supremely cross to find I'd been pipped to the post though...http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=292&pageID=2
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Post by guitarmanrich on Oct 24, 2006 17:31:07 GMT 1
Keith: I was not aware of the versatility of the scone - I know the Rock Scone was a technological leap forward and was strapped to axles on early wheeled objects, and continued to be in use in medieval siege warfare (before the advent of gunpowder, the Drop Scone being dropped from on high onto the attackers' heads).
Can you recommend any reading on early Scone Age technology?
(this has turned into the ridiculous thread hasn't it? I fully take responsibility for encouraging it, and apologise to anyone sane out there)
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Post by Pam on Oct 24, 2006 17:44:49 GMT 1
Gives a whole new meaning to 'experimental archaeology' ! If I were a tax payer at the moment I would be getting seriously worried about where some of my tax is going.... But as I'm not contributing to University funding right now...... go ahead, be as ridiculous as you like...hehe ;D
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