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This Is Cool.
#11
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It's almost as if all of that shit was borrowed, isn't it?
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#12
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http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/fe...lets-flood
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#13
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(October 13, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I saw that special the other day.  I think it was on NOVA. 

It didn't fall apart.  It sank.  They tried to build it on a lake in India because there is a little bit of trouble in Iraq right now...as you may know.  The bitumen which was available in India was not as good as that which is found in Iraq.  It was also round, a common type of boat called a coracle.

In the account I read, they tried a full-sized one first - that's the one that fell apart. The 1/3-sized one held together.

Sorry, 'currach' is Irish for 'coracle'. Same thing.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#14
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Very cool. I love languages - even dead ones. My own dead language goal is to be able to read Beowulf in its original Old English. There's a video floating around somewhere out there on the interwebs of Benjamin Bagby reciting it in Old English, and it is incredible.
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#15
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I could swear he was speaking Ewok!
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#16
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(October 14, 2015 at 4:24 am)ignoramus Wrote: I could swear he was speaking Ewok!

Jup jup!
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#17
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A professor friend of mine sent me this last night, a shot of a new teeshirt he bought. I had to look it up, because I thought it was an Ewok joke. I suggest you guys Google the phrase, if you don't know it already. I still say it should end in "yub yub".

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