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5,000 year-old stone balls continue to baffle archaeologists
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| 6/18/18
| Tom Metcalfe
Posted on 06/18/2018 10:56:29 AM PDT by BBell
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To: CJ Wolf
I’ve got big balls
They’re such big balls
And they’re fancy big balls
And he’s got big balls
And she’s got big balls
But we’ve got the biggest balls of them all
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:13:06 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: BBell
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:21:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:22:10 AM PDT
by
CTyank
To: BBell
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:23:04 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
To: Jamestown1630
Scrimshaw in stone. Art done for the sake of art, not all that different in its way from, say, traditional patterns woven into cloth or wood carvings for ornamental purposes.
Much too expensive in terms of time and effort expended to be used as weaponry, when a simple river rock of that size is both much more available and fitted to the hand.
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:23:09 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
("No" is a complete sentence. On so many levels.)
To: BBell
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:23:32 AM PDT
by
squarebarb
( Fairy tales are basically true.)
To: BBell
That one looks like a heat sink for a prehistoric processor.
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:23:58 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Mr. K
Maybe they weren’t carved. Maybe they were a soft sludge/putty that were removed from some pond/river then rolled, decorated and left to dry and hardened into stone? There was a lake I used to go to that had sludge like that, and you could form it like putty and it then hardened.
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:24:30 AM PDT
by
kiltie65
To: Mr. K
Do your balls hang low,
Do they wobble to-and-fro,
Can you tie 'em in a knot,
Can you tie 'em in a bow,
Can you throw 'em over your shoulder,
Like a Continental soldier,
Do your balls hang low?
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:26:05 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: BBell
Maybe...jjjeeeesssssssss...maybe, someone just had an interesting hobby. A pastime. An inner inspiration to create something.
Then, I could be wrong.
Either way, I don’t much care about them.
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:28:10 AM PDT
by
FrankR
(If it wasn't for stupid ideas, the left would have no ideas at all.)
To: alloysteel
I don’t think they were weapons either; but that level of effort usually had some kind of symbolic meaning and sacred or magical purpose.
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:28:34 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Yaelle
I was thinking of a headline something like this:
President’s stones continue to baffle Democrats.
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:34:32 AM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
To: BBell
check them for finger holes
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:37:49 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: BBell
Balls, said the Queen,
If I had two, I’d be King!
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:38:53 AM PDT
by
W.
(.44 Magnum. No further questions needed.)
To: Red Badger
And I’m just itching to tell you about them
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:41:08 AM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: FrankR
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:42:14 AM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: hanamizu
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:44:12 AM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: BBell
I know, President Trump isn’t even 80 years old yet...
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:44:29 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Jamestown1630
When men were hunting from trees, the stones were used to disable/kill the prey and used to dissuade larger predators from also climbing up the tree (bears).
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:47:39 AM PDT
by
sodpoodle
(Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
To: sodpoodle
I’m sure they used stones for fighting and hunting; it just seems that works of art this embellished with so much effort put into them would be reserved for some ceremonial purpose.
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posted on
06/18/2018 11:51:54 AM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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