https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/25/welsh-rabbits-serve-up-prehistoric-finds-on-tiny-skokholm-island
;D
Definitely a hare-raising profession...
how did you dig that one up
Rabbits are excellent archaeologists.* I always check over burrows in the banks of hillforts etc, just in case.
* though of course they are careless about stratigraphy, and their publishing record is lamentable.
Quote from: Holly on Mar 31, 2021, 03:11 PM
how did you dig that one up
Oh, you just listen to archaeologists rabbit on about their subject.
Quote from: RichT on Mar 31, 2021, 04:00 PM
Rabbits are excellent archaeologists.* I always check over burrows in the banks of hillforts etc, just in case.
* though of course they are careless about stratigraphy, and their publishing record is lamentable.
To be fair, a lot of professional archaeologists aren't a lot better when it comes to publishing! :-[
Quote from: RichT on Mar 31, 2021, 04:00 PM
Rabbits are excellent archaeologists.* I always check over burrows in the banks of hillforts etc, just in case.
* though of course they are careless about stratigraphy, and their publishing record is lamentable.
I was taught at uni to check by rabbit burrows and in mole hills for signs of underlying material . Number of hills and burrows checked so far over the decades - hundreds. Number of finds - zero. :(
I bet they were hopping mad.....
Quote from: Holly on Mar 31, 2021, 06:56 PM
I bet they were hopping mad.....
Nah. They warren too concerned.
I wouldnt buck the trend
Quote from: Holly on Mar 31, 2021, 07:16 PM
I wouldnt buck the trend
Trend? With them it's all hare today gone tomorrow.
I bet that gave them kittens
It did make them jumpy.
It might be time to paws this thread.
and high tail it out of here?
This is too much fun. The carrot and the stick won't work on us!
lettuce just remind ourselves of the story
Indeed. This is rabbitly descending into farce. Back to the topic. Hop to it!
Yes, we've definitely gone down the rabbit hole on this one.
That's the trouble with bad puns: they tend to breed like...umm...well...yes...
and run and run and run
In any case I've no doubt forum members are lapin it up.
Because it is Easter, and the stokholm rabbits actually got there by medieval commercial bunny farming, can I suggest you get out your SoA memory sticks and look up a game about warreners published in an early 1980s Slingshot? Justin will wince at what a mess it is (something went really wrong at the printers and no-one caught it) but also the strange cod-medieval poems it generated. :)
Quote from: Erpingham on Apr 01, 2021, 02:59 PM
Because it is Easter, and the stokholm rabbits actually got there by medieval commercial bunny farming, can I suggest you get out your SoA memory sticks and look up a game about warreners published in an early 1980s Slingshot? Justin will wince at what a mess it is (something went really wrong at the printers and no-one caught it) but also the strange cod-medieval poems it generated. :)
Coneycatcher in Slingshot 130, March 1987. Not really a mess, just that bit of duplication of text at the beginning. I like the cartoons.
I'm just going to leave you all to stew
Bugs the hell out of me....