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A fantastic blog written in mock Middle Englysshe, has surfaced on ye webbe. Yncludyng sucche gemmes as:
Geoffrey’s capture and ransom in France:
Eftsoones, the frensshe dide fynde us ther, and cleppid us in irones and ledid vs ech fro othir. Y dide usen a smal mirour to regarde hym as y was takene awaye. Y was ransoumed for XVI pounde! A bargaine, I saye.
Geoffrey Chaucer thinking of beer and skiving off work at the Customs House:
It is hottere than the fyrie rivere phlegeton uppe in the customes hous. I shal drynken of a moist and corny ale eft soon, for to slaken my thirste. My documents and recordes can go stuffe themselues.
Read on at Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A Blog.
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Worth1000 are running a Photoshop competition entitled “Archaeology Anomolies“.
In this contest you will create a hoax archaeological discovery (i.e. Atlantis, a 2,000 year-old Coca-Cola can or a giant’s skull). Be open minded, there are many mysteries buried beneath the earth.
The rules of this game are thus:
You are to create an archaeological hoax. Your job is to show a picture of an archaeological discovery that looks so real, had it not appeared at Worth1000, people might have done a double take. As always, quality is a must. We will remove poor entries no matter how much we like you. You’ll have 48 hours for this contest, so make your submission count.
As an archaeologist with a surreal sense of humour, this really appeals to me!
[UPDATE] One of my photos of a beaker from the grave of the Boscombe Bowmen has been used in the competition, adorned with Mickey Mouse. Not entirely original, but not a bad Photoshop job…
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Whilst fishing through my spam to check for messages which might have been wrongly marked as junk, I came across this little gem. Whilst reading it, think of it being delivered by a male Shakespearean actor with a deep and powerful voice, whilst wearing a wide-brimmed hat covered in bananas:
Lo how regurgitate take testicular
Joss where shivery out mail.
North antipodes give gorge of
For beverage enough casanova from.
Whom because when groundskeep tofu by vibrato among?
Catholic doom before isopleth make off doubt.
Organ take together carpathia scythia any cavemen again.
Benny farthest even alewife almost up cutlet
Dormant a with kitten ascribe still judicial because.
Casualty get only diatomaceous racketeer up emeriti and
Tomorrow attitudinal such o’sullivan with.
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All I am responsible for is the punctuation, and capitalisation of each line.
Surrealist performance spam poetry anyone?
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Britain’s best-loved newspaper, the Framley Examiner has just seen an update to the website, with a whole 8 new pages. This was due to “The Framley Examiner team apologises for the delay in our Christmas 2004 update. This was due to the enforced maternity leave of Pete who knows how to work the scanner”. It also has details about a possible new book entitiled “Bollocks to Alton Towers - Uncommonly British Days Out”. If you’ve ever read “The Framley Examiner” or “Historic Framley“, no doubt this will be a must. If it’s real..!
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