Re: The Newport Tower - some reflections, and a question

On 15 Dec 2006 21:12:55 -0800, "Tom McDonald" <kiltmac@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:15:18 +0100, "Peter Alaca"
<p.alaca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

bogart.lloy@xxxxxxxxx <bogart.lloy@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Peter Alaca wrote:

And though they were used to carry a heavy
stone slab around on their voyages, a massive
stone roof was too much to handle.

well, D'oH !!!!!!!

That's predisely why they had to fabricate the
roof rom straw and charcoal and sulphur and
barnyard manure...

...and that's why the roof *EXPLODED*
EH? and burned, and like that, and the top
6 feet is missing.

It was the Goths, I tell ya!!!!!!! They learned
the recipe from the Chinese during their
earlier voyages of discovery that only certain
scholars that I can't reveal can verify.

Thought you knew.

I know it's true, and that's all you need to
know. I need say no more on the subject,
until my manuscript is on the best seller
list.

If you disagree, you may not be a scholar.

Lloyd
*****

Who do you think is the best seller?

See http://tinyurl.com/9p6ej

Phttwt! Just like you, Eric. Come to an archaeology ng, and show a
cellar with not a bottle of wine, nor a barrel of whiskey or a can of
beer.

You would destroy the whole field, you would! :-)

At leats it was on topic to the extent it was a Gothic cellar and
contained arches.

Actually, it reminds me of one in Stirling castle, except the Stirling
Castle cellar was not nearly so well lit and when I poked my cameral
into a dark hole in dark corner and took a photograph I later found I
had photographed a little cubbyhole filled with a stack of very
ancient very rusty cannon balls.



Eric Stevens
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