kraftdinner
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posted on January 8, 2003 04:48:09 PM new
How do you think the pyramids were built?
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gravid
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posted on January 8, 2003 05:09:38 PM new
From the bottom up.
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Linda_K
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posted on January 8, 2003 05:11:48 PM new
LOL 
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junquemama
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posted on January 8, 2003 05:24:51 PM new
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Linda_K
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posted on January 8, 2003 05:43:33 PM new
Well......are you going to tell us or are you waiting for bunni to show up?
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bunnicula
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posted on January 8, 2003 05:53:50 PM new
Humph! Are you saying I'm a know-it-all?
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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Linda_K
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posted on January 8, 2003 05:55:47 PM new
Said with all due respect to a woman who is surrounded by books and has probably read most of them. Said only with pure admiration, madam.
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bunnicula
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posted on January 8, 2003 06:10:05 PM new
Oh. Ok, then 
Here are some sites on pyramind building:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/builders.html
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/pyramid.htm
http://interoz.com/egypt/construction/construc.htm
As archeologists learn more, it is becoming apparent that huge numbers weren't required to build the pyramids, and that the work was likely done by free men & not slaves.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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gravid
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posted on January 8, 2003 07:19:49 PM new
And like any worthy project you get the boys to come over for required huge quantities of beer...
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Helenjw
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posted on January 8, 2003 07:49:53 PM new
And like any worthy project you get the boys to come over for required huge quantities of beer...
Amazing that beer was brewed 10,000 years ago. In fact beer came before bread.
For hunter-gatherers the amount of work involved in cultivating grain would not have been worthwhile if the only reward was a little food. The desire for beer, might have been sufficient incentive for expending the effort to plant and raise the barley, which is believed to be the earliest crop.
[ edited by Helenjw on Jan 9, 2003 08:09 AM ]
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profe51
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posted on January 8, 2003 08:13:10 PM new
like my favorite hat says across it's brim...
"NO CERVEZA,.. NO TRABAJO"
edited because I forgot to mention the link to a story about the Kirin Brewing Co. of Japan, which recreated a 4400 year old Egyptian beer recipe a while back...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/02/world/main517325.shtml
[ edited by profe51 on Jan 8, 2003 08:19 PM ]
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profe51
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posted on January 8, 2003 08:31:33 PM new
More on topic, we have some real friendly new neighbors down the road, who have no visible means of support, ponytails and a real nice Range Rover, who figure the Pyramids were built with technology provided by a benign alien race. I learned all about this while I was shearing a ewe for the guy's wife, who had big plans to learn how to spin and weave by hand...I guess the aliens didn't have any real good cloth making technology...
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bear1949
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posted on January 8, 2003 08:32:30 PM new
Or like in the Johnny Cash song from the 70's, built one piece at a time.
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gravid
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posted on January 9, 2003 05:02:03 AM new
Profe51
Watch if the new guys start buying more houses........Re: pot thread
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mlecher
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posted on January 9, 2003 06:08:16 AM new
After many thousands of years of trial and error, the Egyptians decided the pointy end goes up. Keeps it from toppling over and killing the workers.
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We call them our heroes...but we pay them like chumps
[ edited by mlecher on Jan 9, 2003 06:08 AM ]
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stusi
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posted on January 9, 2003 01:16:57 PM new
kraft- I thought everyone knew that they were not built, but rather always existed underground as natural formations. Biblical floods eroded away the earth in that region, exposing the pyramids and those stupid lion things. Oops- I thought this was the pot thread!
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profe51
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posted on January 9, 2003 08:38:25 PM new
you're hogging the doobie again stusi
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