Re: The Mystery of Discovery Channel

LloydB <bogart.lloy@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Peter Alaca wrote:
Below is a letter to the European Journal of Archaeology
from the 'segment editor at the Discovery Channel', showing
how it works. Achaeologists provide an excavation, DC
adds a mystery and helps to solve it.


[snipped]
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p.a.

Uh Huh.

This week the Science Fiction channel provided
a decent program on the geomorphic development
of the earth and solar system. The History channel,
in the other hand, ernestly tried its best to convince
me, with outdated material, that alien abductions and
crop circles deserved my time and attention.

Seems like the lines of demarcation are ever more
nebulous.

Meantime, this Archaeology newsgroup is posted
full of linguistics, religion, maps, politics, and the
rantings of the obsessed (NOT mutually exclusive
categories.)

At least the Discovery channel tends to be on track
and often is entertaining.

Yes, but it breeds those obsessed.

Don't you admire the genius who decided to add
chocolate chips to granola? ;-) It's all about what
you'll buy, not what's good for you.

How about the genius who invented the wheel /and/ language?
http://www.frankandernest.com/sound/UM/vr/inv/caveman.gif

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p.a.



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