http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 00:34:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-167227 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:53:47 +0000 Dick Everyman 167227@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh Bollocks....thanks Squudge - nobody loves me. I'll always be on the shelf at this rate.... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-167223 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:32:40 +0000 Squudge 167223@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>second - you nicked the bridesmaid slot again </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-166352 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:58:11 +0000 Dick Everyman 166352@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks Squudge - nice idea - was also thinking of asps and nile crocodiles in pets corner....;0) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-166329 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:42:47 +0000 Squudge 166329@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it. Pity it isn't a new sub, otherwise you could tweak with a bit about the cuneform depicting dejected slaves dragging poorly balanced trolleys with containing outsized frost-resistant pots. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-166264 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:25:16 +0000 Dick Everyman 166264@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just digging this horticultural piece up for Godley's Neat-o in the vain hope of a rosette ;0) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-146035 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:51:27 +0000 Dick Everyman 146035@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks Bunbury - I hate the places as you may have gleaned - in fact going to Church on a Sunday is starting to look more and more attractive....;0) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-146034 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:45:24 +0000 Anonymous 146034@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>very nice </p> <p>particularly to Garden Centre victims!!!</p> <p>5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50670#post-146033 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:35:31 +0000 Dick Everyman 146033@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Archaeologists working on a site alleged to be the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon have uncovered evidence of the world’s very first garden centre. </p> <p>The astounding discovery, in a secret location lying between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq, now casts serious doubt over UK based Dobbies and Garden Land’s claims to be the world’s first garden retail giants.</p> <p>The finds include two papyrus sheaves sewn together with cat-gut containing tamarisk and date-palm seeds which, say experts, may be evidence of the world’s first ‘Buy One Get One Free’ seed offer.</p> <p>Other discoveries include a small red and green coloured statue in the guise of King Nebuchadnezzar II complete with fishing rod; an ornamental wishing-well and a greenhouse-irrigation system based on the Archimedes Screw principle.</p> <p>Eminent archaeologist, Professor Terence Hinchcliffe of Cambridge University said, “The find gives us a fascinating insight into the lifestyles of the early Babylonians. Although the gardens were constructed more than 500 years before the birth of Christ there is evidence, in the form of fossilised pine cones and tinsel that one section of the garden centre was totally dedicated to the sale of Christmas decorations, probably in a bid to steal a march on its competitors.”</p> <p>In another important breakthrough archaeologists are now scrutinizing a series of stone tablets discovered some distance from the main site and containing an unknown form of cuneiform writing. Samples sent to experts at the Louvre Museum in Paris have revealed that the pictograms seem to depict two human forms in a pitched battle next to a large triangle over a circle. </p> <p>It is now thought that the images are some kind of warning with evidence so far pointing towards an early chariot clamping operation. </p>