Reply to: The Beaker People

[thunderlizard]

I bet the Beaker People did all kinds of exciting things, and would be jolly annoyed if they knew they were now named after their drinking vessels. Perhaps future archaeologists will speculate about the Starbuck People, and what trading goods might have been in their mysterious polystyrene receptacles.

[BrilloPad]

Can't we just ask Beaker? If anyone knows it must be him.

Mind you, he hasn't posted for a while, and I vaguely recall him being banned.

Not banned http://forums.contractoruk.com/members/beaker.html

However I did drive him insane with my questins on the "ask beaker" thread : he rarely posted after that......

[OwlHoot]

Can't we just ask Beaker? If anyone knows it must be him.

Mind you, he hasn't posted for a while, and I vaguely recall him being banned.

[BrowneIssue]

Ah yes, the beaker people. Forerunners of the Tupperware Tribe...

... came from Lakeland.

[Doggy Styles]

"You can really do the Brontosaurus" - The Move.

I think all the Beaker people migrated to Glasgow.

[expat]

I prefer the word Brontosaurus, but to remain correct whilst avoiding having to use the new classification, I say 'the animal that used to be called a Brontosaurus'. A win, win situation.

I thought that older palaeontologists rebelled, and got Brontosaurus kept?

[TimberWolf]

We got taught "Boadicea" in school, and "Brontosaurus" for a big, long-necked dinosaur and then they changed them to "Boudica" and "Apatosaurus"...

I prefer the word Brontosaurus, but to remain correct whilst avoiding having to use the new classification, I say 'the animal that used to be called a Brontosaurus'. A win, win situation.

[EternalOptimist]

Those beaker cavemen - episode 1

Ogg - 'hey man is this stuff addictive ?'

ug - 'dunno why?'

Ogg - 'that red haired bird over there wants to know'

ug - 'You mean Boudicca ?'

Ogg - 'nooo, the Geordie one next to boudicca'

ug - 'ah the one surrounded by empty beakers with her hair all over the show ?'

Ogg - 'Stiggy Anne, thats her'

[Mich the Tester]

early use of alcohol cut down on intestinal infection and was a great advance for a civilisation.

That’s one small slurp for a man, one giant leap forwards for mankind.

[Mich the Tester]

you stole my tupperware joke.
you absolute turd.

But perhaps he’s right. Maybe they were travelling beaker salespeople who organised parties in people’s villages to try and sell their beakers and of course attract new beaker salespeople into a massive pyramid scheme set up by their chums in Egypt.

[ratewhore]

you stole my tupperware joke.
you absolute turd.

You can do one about the Muppets...

[expat]

You just made that up didn't you?

No, he didn't. They did get all over Europe. Well, at least their beakers did: archaeology has been defined as the study of ancient peoples' rubbish. The alcohol connection sounds probable: early use of alcohol cut down on intestinal infection and was a great advance for a civilisation.

[dang65]

Unlikely to be anything to do with Boadicea's bunch seeing as they were giving the Romans an ill fated kicking as recently as about 50-100 AD.

I think we're supposed to call her "Boudica" now. This is one of those devices they use to ensure that old people become stupid and senile more quickly. We got taught "Boadicea" in school, and "Brontosaurus" for a big, long-necked dinosaur and then they changed them to "Boudica" and "Apatosaurus" and teach those to young people. It's a sort of rebranding scam run buy academics.

[EternalOptimist]

Ah yes, the beaker people. Forerunners of the Tupperware Tribe...

you stole my tupperware joke.
you absolute turd.

[ratewhore]

Ah yes, the beaker people. Forerunners of the Tupperware Tribe...