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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: roo_ster on August 17, 2012, 11:16:57 AM
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Hey Viking, here's a heads-up!
http://news.discovery.com/history/the-1000-year-old--massacre-uncovered-in-england.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews
A macabre and forgotten episode from the Dark Ages has been uncovered by British researchers after they examined dozens of beheaded skeletons.
Mystery surrounded the identity of the victims since they were discovered by accident last June near Weymouth, Dorset, England, when workers at a 2012 building site, stumbled across a burial pit.
The grave contained a mass of bones and 51 skulls neatly stacked in a pile.
Scientific tests have now revealed that the individuals, all males mostly in their late teens or early 20s, were likely Viking raiders who were brutally executed 1,000 years ago.
"It was not a straight one slice and head off. They were all hacked at around the head and jaw. It doesn't look like they were very willing or the executioners very skilled," Ceri Boston, an expert in ancient bones who examined the remains, told the "London Times."
Zeppelin didn't sing about this possibility...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnpaPGHFsL4
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So, the article suggests the cuts weren't made at or by the right Angles.
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So, the article suggests the cuts weren't made at or by the right Angles.
:facepalm:
We need a higher class of comedians at APS. We really do. :police: :angel: :angel:
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:facepalm:
We need a higher class of comedians at APS. We really do. :police: :angel: :angel:
He's the comedian we need, not the one we deserve!
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:facepalm:
We need a higher class of comedians at APS. We really do. :police: :angel: :angel:
Yes, but it is nothing to lose your head about.
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Yeah, why worry about ineffectual hacks?
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Yes, but it is nothing to lose your head about.
:facepalm: ANOTHER wiseacre!!!!!!! [tinfoil] :lol:
Yeah, why worry about ineffectual hacks?
AND ANOTHER!!!! >:D
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TG, you may be right, but your cutting commentary won't bury my wrong-headed humor. :P
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You're killing me! :rofl: :rofl: :angel: ;/
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A Viking just won't quit until he's ahead.
Of course, the history of the region is also full of Saxon violence.
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A Viking just won't quit until he's ahead.
Of course, the history of the region is also full of Saxon violence.
That's the pun I was struggling to find for the Saxon connection. Well done.
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Violence seems to be problem among the Jutes of England
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Viking, maybe you can sue Britain on behalf of your ancestors.... ;) :P
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Its too soon to be making these type of comments... Have some respect guys.
Those poor respectable Vikings couldn't have done anything to deserve that kind of Barbery.
(best I could do. Everyone else was ahead of me with the good jokes)
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Its too soon to be making these type of comments... Have some respect guys.
Those poor respectable Vikings couldn't have done anything to deserve that kind of Barbery.
(best I could do. Everyone else was ahead of me with the good jokes)
DUDE! We missed you!
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DUDE! We missed you!
He was busy eating kittens.
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Not trying to hijack, or thread drift.
I have been lurking and deleting the occasional spambot and reading up on everyone else. Just in the backseat for a long time. My life got real hectic for a while. Had some rough patches. It was just easier to fade to the background...I have been here a minimum of once a week reading though.
I just couldn't resist this thread.
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Kipling wrote all about this ...
If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs ...
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I'm reminded of a scene from the comic book version of Röde Orm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Ships) (don't remember if this was in the book as well) when a group of Viking raiders had been caught by the raidees, and had been lined up to be executed by having their heads chopped off. One of the vikings asked the executioner to avoid cutting his nice braided hair when he swung the sword, so the executioner had one of his friends holding the guy's braided hair out of the way while he swung...only that the guy with the braids yanked his head backwards, causing the hair-holder to get his arms under the blade. Ooops :laugh:.
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I'm getting really hacked off at all the crappy jokes around here. Really not Viking it.
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I'm getting really hacked off at all the crappy jokes around here. Really not Viking it.
Offended by this....I didn't think you had the gaul....
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This thread... :rofl:
And it is nice "seeing" you again, J.J. =)
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This thread... :rofl:
Yea, I'm laughing my head off too.
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This thread will be heading down the drain soon.
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You can Pict your nose, you can Pict your friends, but you can't Pict the people who post in your threads.
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Funny, Mike.....you really celt 'em with that one....
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Oh, woad is me, but that was very well executed, slashing wit.
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I was just Roman around tonight, and came across this list of bad puns
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When will things ever return to norman around here?....
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When will things ever return to norman around here?....
Don;t believe any who promise to leave the tomfoolery behind. They are likely to welsh on their obligation.
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Don't lose your head, this place always has been a cut above the usual zany internet places. You just gotta keep on hacking away, and don't get sword at all the bad humor.
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England used to be better about dealing with immigration ;)
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Don't lose your head, this place always has been a cut above the usual zany internet places. You just gotta keep on hacking away, and don't get sword at all the bad humor.
That's heavy, man.....like, teuton worth of heavy....
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That's heavy, man.....like, teuton worth of heavy....
It was awfully nice of you to pick up the tab for that post all by your lonesome. I thought for sure we'd have to go dutch.
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Oh GAWDS... the puns are Swedeing
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Let me be Frank. This thread is so full of awful puns, I could hardly get Druid. Irish they were a law, so you punsters wouldn't get away Scot-free.
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This is Celting waaaaay out of hand!
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This is Celting waaaaay out of hand!
Don't jew know it.....
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I don't like where this thread is headed.
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Let me be Franks... I don't like it when someone has the Gaul to come in like Vandals and ruin the thread with all of these Cornish puns.
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There ought to be a wall!
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I don't like where this thread is headed.
Don't cut it off yet....there's a lot of good here to cleave to....
....besides, as long as the puns are good, we can keep trojan along....
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Don't cut it off yet....there's a lot of good here to cleave to....
....besides, as long as the puns are good, we can keep trojan along....
I'll not Dane to dignify that with a response.
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I'll not Dane to dignify that with a response.
There now.....maybe we can get together at Jamis' house for a glass of tea....I hear hebrews it himself....
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Let's hold off on that: don't think we should be russian over there...
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Leave it to APS to Rome this far off topic...
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This thread is three pages of pure train wreck.
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I'd say we've pretty well vandalized the OP's purpose...
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I'd say we've pretty well vandalized the OP's purpose...
Whatever you say, hun....
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You have goth to be killing me. Beware the Hun in his pun.
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I'd say we've pretty well vandalized the OP's purpose...
And I do not doubt the vandalizers will get off scot free!
Beware the Hun in his pun.
A more prescient warning has never been Avarred.
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I'd say we've pretty well vandalized the OP's purpose...
Cool, now what else can we ransack and pillage?
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You are all making fun of a terrible tragedy :P
I'm sure that these Viking youths were just about to turn their lives around, right after they finished raping and pillaging one more English village. ;)
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You are all making fun of a terrible tragedy :P
I'm sure that these Viking youths were just about to turn their lives around, right after they finished raping and pillaging one more English village sacked the local church where they had just held Bible study*. ;)
* a la` Sumdood
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You are all making fun of a terrible tragedy :P
They were just witnessing the violence inherent to the system....
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They were just witnessing the violence inherent to the system....
They had a "system" back then ???
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It was an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
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And I do not doubt the vandalizers will get off scot free!
A more prescient warning has never been Avarred.
Just gotta say, WIWT.
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Before I even opened the thread, I knew where it would beheaded.
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Before I even opened the thread, I knew where it would beheaded.
Hope you don't sever your ties to APS due to this....
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I think I'm gonna lose my head over this thread
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I think I'm gonna lose my head over this thread
Do your best to keep it screwed on tight.
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This thread really should have been headed off at the pass.
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There ought to be a wall!
Yo Hadrian! I did it!