It's that dratted misspelling vyrus again. That should read 'wierd weather experiments'. But the other sounds much better.

I also wondered about that, but decided to hide my ignorance rather tha try to be a smart-arse.

The idea of researchers into the weather out of their trees on caffeine is strangely compelling, however...



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Mind you, the weather down that neck of the woods is pretty 'wired'. Get's a tad breezy down there.

There's a bit of information on passenger pigeons bred in captivity here, in an issue of Bird Lore from 1913:
[www.internationaldovesociety.com]

I can't help but notice that the dreaded mispeling vyrus has not been completely eradicated. The word is "weird"! :-D



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Sarah

Sometimes it's wyrd. But that's just wie .. I mean, strange.



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I think the only Tas Tigers left are pups preserved in alcohol, all the fully grown ones are stuffed.



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Sounds a bit like my cricket team then...

That has to be the best changing of the meaning of a phrase I have seen for a while, Ptolemy!



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Back on topic for a brief post...

Myself, if I had a time machine, I don't think I'd ever come back to the present day! I'd like to meet Alexander the Great, have a chat with Socrates, and discover exactly why the Minoans died out. And then I'd nip forward a thousand and so years to watch a Shakespeare First Night.
It's tough being a historian with so many mysteries that will never be solved...



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

I think I'd go back to visit the ancient Romans. Just to see if they really had cranes. *wonder* And I've wondered all my time at school how Latin must've sounded when spoken like, real language.

Maybe they didn't even speak Latin but Russian, perhaps, and invented Latin to make us believe they were so incredibly sophisticated that they could speak an extinct language...?

I'd start with Ireland pre-Romans followed by a stop over to see how much of Camelot was real but I'd like to spend a lot of time DaVinci. The man was a genius.

Barbie -- if you want to get an idea of what Latin really sounded, find yourself an Italian and get them to read some out.

Or you could do worse that watch Ken Russell's film Sebastiane, which is entirely in Latin, and most of the cast are Italian -- it makes it sound like a much more 'real' language (and the Romans suddenly seem a lot less British and Victorian and a lot more Mediterranean, and let's face it, foreign!)

The other thing to remember is that the Latin you learn at school (if you're lucky enough to learn it at school) is a literary language -- the spoken language was significantly different. Not much of it survives, but the comedies of Terence and Plautus are in something apporaching street Latin. And modern Romance languages are a dead giveaway too -- for example the Latin word for horse was of course equus. So how come the French for horse is cheval, the Italian cavallo, Spanish caballo, Portuguese cavalo , Romanian cal? Well, it's because the street Latin word for horse was caballus,



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

*ggg* Don't take me all too seriously, dear, after 7 years of Latin plus A-level I think I have a fairly good idea what Latin must've looked like when still a spoken language, I've read a good bit of the street-Latin-blokes not to mention recited a hell of a lot of verse aloud.
Still, wouldn't you prefer to have some archaic old toga-clad geezer like Plinius himself or Cicero (my personal favourite) babble away in Latin than just any contemporary Italian...?

Just thought of some more places to visit - I'd go back to Glasgow c1900 and buy up lots of Charles Rennie Mackintosh furniture, paintings and everything that's not nailed down.

me for the Rembrants, da Vincis and 1st ffolios.... plus it would be interesting to deposit a guinea or so in a bank and see if it had accumulated over the centuries...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

'ere Vincent, you look hard up, I'll give you thirty francs for that sunflowers picture ... then you can get that ear of yours seen to, what d'ya say?

Mr. Shakespeare! Mr. Shakespeare! Can I have your autograph please? It's not for me, it's for me little girl, she loved Titus Andronicus ... cheers, mate.

Mind you, if we're blagging furniture from the past, there's a carpenter's shop in Nazareth might be worth a visit ...



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Think of all the product placement you could get though - "Vinegar-ona-stick Mr Jesus sir? Wanna Hamlet cigar with that?"

"And God said unto Noah, 'make thee an ark of 4-by-2, the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. You can do it if you B&Q it..."



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Lycanthra: have you actually been to Glasgow ? I've been twice and I love it. The tour around the Art School was fascinating; to see somewhere that's so clearly the work of CRM and still a living building was fantastic.

Kaz: dammit - you found me. Your turn...



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