"Everyone knows what a horse is"
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I thought it was a dowel sizing tool for standardized construction.
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Knitting
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knitting what? the ones that have been recovered were way too big to make sense for that purpose
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Archeologists after looking at literally anything: Looks like a calendar. Or maybe a religious object. Or maybe a calendar of religions significance.
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Are we entirely sure it's not just an ornament? I've got all kinds of things that aren't even ritual objects.
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Are we entirely sure it's not just an ornament? I've got all kinds of things that aren't even ritual objects.
No, no you don't. Everything that isn't fully functional and necessary for life is a ritual object! And also some of the the other things to! It's all ritual! It's ritual all the way down, baby!
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Underrated joke
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No, no you don't. Everything that isn't fully functional and necessary for life is a ritual object! And also some of the the other things to! It's all ritual! It's ritual all the way down, baby!
So you’re saying I’m a ritual object? Huh, go figure.
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Did it went up or got filled?
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A fertility ceremonial, got it!
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knitting what? the ones that have been recovered were way too big to make sense for that purpose
Maybe oversized sweaters were a thing back then
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I always loved David McCullogh’s take on this. He wrote a book as if people 2000 years ago found a motel and he presumed the “sanitized for your protection” banding and toilet seats would have been seen as ceremonial wear.
Stranger Days #39: The Mysteries of the Motel
Thoughts on books, audiobooks, comics, running, higher education, teaching, pop culture, open access, & artificial intelligence from Lance Eaton
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It’s obviously a dick-measuring tool
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Maybe oversized sweaters were a thing back then
Gotta keep the giants and dragons warm
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So you’re saying I’m a ritual object? Huh, go figure.
Have you ever been inserted or had something inserted?
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Gotta keep the giants and dragons warm
God-sized sweaters and socks to offer at the sermons in temples
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I always loved David McCullogh’s take on this. He wrote a book as if people 2000 years ago found a motel and he presumed the “sanitized for your protection” banding and toilet seats would have been seen as ceremonial wear.
Stranger Days #39: The Mysteries of the Motel
Thoughts on books, audiobooks, comics, running, higher education, teaching, pop culture, open access, & artificial intelligence from Lance Eaton
(www.byanyothernerd.com)
I can't remember if it's an official Asimov book or not, but one of the Foundation books set far beyond even the main series has an archaeological mission finding thousands of ceremonial hard white ceramic bowl-funnels and speculating on their significance to these incomprehensibly ancient peoples.
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Archeologists after looking at literally anything: Looks like a calendar. Or maybe a religious object. Or maybe a calendar of religions significance.
People back then loved their religious calendars. That's all they ever talked about. Whole books could be written about them.
But instead of books to write about them, they documented their love of religious calendar artifacts, with more calendar artifacts.
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People say this every time, and it’s still not true, because the Romans didn’t knit. Knitting is a technology and it hadn’t made it to Rome at the time these were made.
Also, some were solid and unsuitable for knitting. And they were found with giant piles of money, which is a weird place to keep your domestic tools.
