Cherry looks very dangerous. :yes:

One guy on that page I was sure was a woman with a huge adams apple. I swear! Not a pretty lady either. :XP

Made that change. Does indeed flow better.
Enjoying the blog. I go through it and can't help but think to myself "I actually admire many of these people." February 29, 2008 was of course appropo.

Fairy - I'm a semi-human, horned, thief!

Biggles - I don't think there's anything wrong with admiring a man who also happens to look like an old lesbian. Unless, of course, you mean "admiring" as finding them attractive. Then perhaps you are a lesbian. :lol:

I watched a strange British movie today. After watching it, I was reflecting on how strange and British it was, and that made me wonder if you had seen it. :lol: Perhaps you have?

Ooh! What are you going to steal?

It's possible I may have seen it, a long while ago. It sounds vaguely familiar.

I'm going to steal ancient treasures from a museum! But later it will be revealed that my motive is good. Also my parents are dead or something?
Wait, why am I turning my avatar into a bad movie.

Bad Cherry. A little bit of me died inside as I watched the footage of the looting of the Iraqi National Museum.

My looting was done in Egypt, I'll have you know.
The middle east was next. :ninja:

... Egypt technically is in the middle east.
It's in africa, but culturally, it has no connection to the continent at large.
The same could be argued of the countries to the west of it, but obviously that gets more tenuous as you go along.
They are part of the Mediterranean world.

I suppose.

Heheh -pulls at collar-
I came on too strong there.
It's just...
PLEASE REALIZE THESE COMMENTS ARE NOT DIRECTED AT YOU.
I have been something of an amateur scholar on ancient Egypt since I was a child.
I get ornery over the rather negligent assumption that Egypt is African culture because it is on that continent (The scholarly form of this of course being the overzealous afrocentric view that shows up in archaeology and historical studies...)
The ancient Egyptians were Arab, with an Arab culture. The same people who live in Egypt today. To say otherwise is to divest the modern Egyptians of their cultural heritage. This is not to say that the ancient Egyptians (and the modern ones, for that matter) do not have black African blood in them. As they are on the same continent, there was of course intermarriage, as well as activities that have nothing to do with marriage thankyouverymuch. It's just that the people and the culture overall remained by and large distinctly Arab.
The other bone of contention for me is the idea of the Egyptians as this great slave holding nation. There were slaves, but statistically, the Egyptians had one of the lowest slave populations in the ancient Mediterranean. Most references I have come across to them seems to indicate many were prisoners of war. The concept comes from the old testament of course, which, as a book dealing with a peoples' relationship with god, can hardly be taken as historical evidence. Dealing with stuff of substance, there is no evidence for the exodus, or indeed for a large Jewish population being in Egypt at that time (In the interest of fairness, I will say that there are occasionally things in the story of the exodus that do ring true of Egyptian culture. Which is intriguing, but basically, that's as far as it goes so far.) In fact, the first mention in the (meticulous Egyptian) historical record of the Jewish people is when they are already a nation state in Canaan.
All that still came off as rather bitchy, didn't it?

I never said the Egyptians were of African culture...

No. Hence the "These comments are not directed at you."
Just me wanting to explain myself.

Remind Flink to never mention Chasing Mummies around Biggles. O_

I know, I'm a stick in the mud/idiot :/
Hey, let's get back to having fun, shall we?

Funnier if you read the accompanying coilhouse blog entry: Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Who Are These Fish People?

Edit: Crap. I just realized this has stuff on Egypt in it. That's not intentional on my part. I just think it's funny.

Oh my god. I really shouldn't be watching things like that in the library. I literally laughed at loud at the part about the phallic symbols near the breast.

YES! My quest to embarrass people in publicly funded places is well underway!

Biggles, actually Flink would like to hear what you think of that show. Many think it's scripted, but even if it is... they had a girl peeing inside one of the pyramids. Or they just poured water to make it look like she did for "ratings."

Flink can't watch it. She's lost her headphones... again.

Nevermind... Flink wants the Pope's Hat.

'Sup guys. Front page update soon. Maybe.

Oh, I've not seen that show? I don't think I have. What channel is it on?
Well, soo many of the shows on Ancient Egypt today are gimmicky, can gloss over things I think are important, or just blow things out of proportion. For instance, the fairly recent discovery channel programme on Tutankhamun's DNA. It made it sound like everything was a revelation, when more or less it was in line with things that Egyptologists have suspected for years. The only shocking thing was that Tut's mum does not appear to be one of the people who was put forth as a plausible suspect, i.e. Nefertiti or Ankhenaten's secondary wife Kiya (although, I don't believe any right thinking scholar of Egypt believed Nefertiti was the mother, as so much attention was showered upon Ankhenaten and Nefertiti's daughters on the monuments at Ankhetaten/Tel el Armana. surely if she had produced a male heir to the throne in Tutankhamun, his image would be rampant at Armana too.) The most exciting thing to come out of the study that was conducted in the programme, for me at least, is we they identified the mummies of several high profile people who were here to fore unaccounted for. But, at that same time, I cannot fault these programmes, as they are intended for the general public, and they helped me when I was starting out, providing me with rudimentary information, giving me a foundation for seeking out and digesting further knowledge.

Edit: Hey Cherry! I shall look forward to it.

Yeah, so if you guys have any further quotes for that thing I PMd months ago, PM them to me now. If you have some other kind of skill you'd like to contribute somehow, let me know and maybe something can be worked out.

P.S. Biggles, since you're familiar with the Boosh lives shows, can you explain what the shit is going on here? :lol: Found this on Google.

Ah yes.

That's Boobilay (Rich Fulcher), from the 2008 live show (Although, judging by that picture, I think that might be the from the music festival the Boosh put on last year? I believe Boobilay made an appearance there too.) Basically, it when like this: For the second half of the live show, Howard had written a play on the dangers facing the environment. Vince found what Howard had written boring, and, holding some compromising photos over Howard's head, re-wrote the script. In the re-write version, the futuristic ecologically ravaged earth is visited by two aliens, one of whom was a pleasure-bot called Boobilay. That pic happens to be of Boobilay in full pleasure mode. Let's just say that they let themselves be more out there in the live shows. Even for me, it was a "Wtf?" sort of thing.

Flink knows a few people who dislike the shows on the History channel and other channels like them. But that's the point, most of them are for the general public and meant for people who aren't truly INTO history, but are just getting into it.

There was a long drawn out conversation about how there should be a channel made for people who know about history. So they can get new information instead of the same thing told to them over and over again.

My mom has pretty much memorized every program on the history channel, especially the ones about Egypt. :lol:

Boobilay... Interesting. :lol: I need to see this.

Yes, such a channel sounds ideal. I must say, History International does a better job than the regular History Channel. Hell, even if it was crap, it would be better by default given that History only seems to be showing reality television.

Yes, Egypt never fails to draw people in.
And yes, you should see it. But you should also see the 2006 one. I am loath to say it, as I encourage the Boosh to give us all they got, but I think the first one was more vibrant.