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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Apr 18, 2007 16:56:09 GMT
Here is another one.
Maybe itis just me, but I really wish a woman would have described this, it would have been much more filthy
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Post by Mr. Jon Donnis on Apr 18, 2007 16:58:37 GMT
And here is a video debunking it
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 18, 2007 17:24:13 GMT
The bloke with the bannana is Mike Seavers, Ive read he meant this video to be a joke, however it looks like it was not intended to be, and the public reaction was not what he intended, so he is attempting to backtrack.
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Post by bujin on Apr 18, 2007 18:17:17 GMT
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Post by exile on Apr 18, 2007 21:19:38 GMT
Thanks for those links bujin.  Nick Gisburnes book looks interesting too! I've just been reading a preview here. |
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Post by bujin on Apr 19, 2007 20:06:37 GMT
Aye, I've read the sample chapters. I probably will get his book at some point, but I'm currently in the middle of reading Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and Dennett's Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea. I also have another 4 books on order from Amazon.
Information Overkill in my house at the moment!!!
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 19, 2007 21:22:08 GMT
Aye, I've read the sample chapters. I probably will get his book at some point, but I'm currently in the middle of reading Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and Dennett's Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea. I also have another 4 books on order from Amazon. Information Overkill in my house at the moment!!! Why are you polluting your mind with that crap for? especially when Derek Acorah has a new book out.  |
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Post by hellyp on Apr 20, 2007 11:38:29 GMT
*Runs to the bookshop*
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Post by bujin on Apr 20, 2007 15:49:32 GMT
Why are you polluting your mind with that crap for? especially when Derek Acorah has a new book out. b***cks! Why didn't someone tell me? |
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Post by ogre on Apr 29, 2007 22:37:09 GMT
There was great excitement in the Archeological community a few years ago, over the discovery of a banana in a dig that indicated that the banana had been introduced in to Engand years before the official date.
After a couple of weeks it turned out that some sheepish digger had been a bit careless with his lunch.
is this a Banana conspiracy to fool mankind?
(answer - no)
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 29, 2007 22:50:32 GMT
wouldnt that banana they found need to be more aged to be seriously considered to be a forerunner of the official banana introduction date? or was that tale allogorical?
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Post by ogre on Apr 29, 2007 23:58:11 GMT
From what I remember (and isn't that just the standard "I heard it from" story) it came out of a medieval ship in 1999 that was waterlogged, and therefore had some preserved organic material (it was a black squidgy object when they found it not a shiny yellow one) and initially they went on the stratification of it.
I will go google for the story
Ogre
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Post by ogre on Apr 30, 2007 0:02:47 GMT
Ok, this is the original story news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/370550.stmand that's interesting (to me) in that I could have sworn the story was busted, but I can't find the correction. I will try to find out definately, now I've stuck my chin out. |
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 30, 2007 2:01:36 GMT
It certainly did look aged in that picture, did they carbon date it?
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Post by ogre on Apr 30, 2007 3:48:29 GMT
I've emailed the London Museum to ask, as I'm on the night shift and I presume they aren't I'll pick any mail up tonight and let you know.
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Post by hellyp on Apr 30, 2007 9:16:31 GMT
The banana - the fruit (sorry, herb) that starts decomposing the minute you open it, right?
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 30, 2007 9:39:32 GMT
I would imagine it would start decomposing the moment it was cut from the tree. It'll take about a week to go bad. Banana's are a herb now?
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Post by hellyp on Apr 30, 2007 10:12:28 GMT
Apparetly. The moment you open a banana, the contents begin to turn brown. After fifteen minutes or thereabouts, the whole thing will be slimy and foul. I was just wondering what possessed these people to think that a banana could maintain even a vague banana shape for that amount of time.
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Post by bobdezon on Apr 30, 2007 10:21:16 GMT
Ive seen similar preservation of soft tissues in peat bog bodies, the tannin from the peat and low oxygen levels do a fairly decent job of preservation.
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Post by hellyp on Apr 30, 2007 11:29:42 GMT
I'd wager my favourite pants that bananas decompose quicker than human soft tissue, even in a peat bog, which I see this one was not found in.
(Disclaimer: this is not a real bet. No one would want even my favourite pants. In fact, I'm not sure I have a favourite pair. Someone is bound to post the different composition rates of a banana versus the human body when both are left at room temperature, with equal levels of humidity and light. Oh, the dangerous games I play. They wrote the book 'The Dice Man' about me, you know. Don't let the title fool you.)
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