Re: No Roman Invasion?


"Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:42d03916$0$56000$dbd4d001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Michael Kuettner wrote: dap5o5$i8v$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>
>> "Alaca" schrieb
>> <snip>
>>
>>> And how about that very shamanic looking Bavarian
>>> men in lederhosen, drinking magic potions from glass
>>> couldrons, while slapping their thighs on the rythm of a
>>> peculiar kind of 'music'?
>>> Imagine /that/ scene on a cave wall!
>>>
>> BULLSHIT !
>>
>> a) It's Prussians on Mallorca drinking out of a bucket;
>> not Bavarians drinking out of a cauldron.
>> See "Sangria" and "Ballermann 6".
>> b) The clay vessels ("Masskrug" from PIE *masskriegen = "effort
>> to quench the thirst") can be traced back to megalithic times;
>> Stonehenge depicts a rather crude blueprint for Masskrug-construction.
>> See "Biergarten" and "Bavaria"
>> c) There was only one change to the very old design of the Bavarian
>> (and Austrian) clay vessel (the Masskrug) - the tin lid.
>> Archaeologists agree that that addendum couldn't have happened
>> before the bronze-age; although they're usually pissed when conceding
>> this point.
>> See "How the early-bronze age tin-lid on cultural Masskruege prevented
>> spilling during quaffing" by Dr. Al Coholic.
>
> Thanks Michael, for flipping your lid while correcting me.

Correcting you ? I was destroying your argument.

> On that mental cave paintings it is very hard to see the
> difference between a glass couldron from Glashüttekäse III

Glashüttenkäse III is a late development of La Tender IV.
Glass cauldrons were only used much later, in HallPlastic I times.

> and a ten-liter-tin-lidded-stoneware-tankard of Druidic type IVa.
>
That should be "type VIa".
This is _SCI_.arch; please get your facts right before posting nonsense
to Usenet, like I do. ;-)

> BTW, Did they ever use gold lids?
>
AFAIR, only Ludwig of Bayern (the Neuschwanstein loonie) had
golden lids on his Masskrügerln.

With a druidic-masonic sekkrit handshake,

Michael Küttner


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