Thanks for the kind words. There wasn't one time I worked with Dave that I didn't learn something. Here's a good story that made me laugh when I thought of it later last night. We were at a dig and Dave had recently found a one of a kind object walking a cornfield in the area. It was a 16" stone gouge, kind of a scoop, for hollowing out logs for example, it's girth was as such that your hand barely wrapped all the way around it. Now gouges are not all that rare except this one hand an unusual design. The opposite, nonworking end was a very finely crafted, anatomically correct depiction of a circumcised penis. In other words it was a gigantic stone dick! According to Dave stone phallus' are only found in relation to the burial of a chief and this was the only one known with a gouge on the other end. Anyways, we always ate lunch and shot the breeze in a big group and all the boys were sitting around and Dave breaks this thing out and we all pass it around for a looksee and general glee and bawdy comments abounded. Mostly in relation to being glad we never ran into the Indian that this was supposed to represent cause he musta been a big one. So along comes Cynthia, a rather sweet little old thing but not a bad archaeologist in her own right. She says something like, "OK, what are you boys all carrying on about?" So Dave, without missing a beat, hands it to her "head" first. She looks at it and says, "Oh." rather nonchalantly, then a split second later she realizes what she has in her hand and goes
"OH!!" with her eyes getting all big. It was all we could do not to bust out laughing and rolling on the ground but we managed to maintain our composure. She handled it rather well herself maintaining a professional attitude about the whole thing, never even cracked a smile but one can only imagine what was going on in her head.
