French archaeologists dig up 1983 picnic table

[Moscow Mule]

"We know what they ate: mostly tripe. We're now going to try and find traces of it," he said.

[Zippy]

Pretentious? Moi?

[OwlHoot]

From today's Liborygraph

French archaeologists dig up 1983 picnic table

Slowly, bits of tablecloth, bottles and cutlery are once again seeing the light of day as they are carefully brushed free of earth. A dozen laboratories are involved in the dig, which is opened to the public today on national archaeology day.

Mr Spoerri, now 80, and several of his original picnic guests were present this week to oversee the excavation of their gargantuan meal. He discovered that the bottles and plates were still intact but the tables had all but vanished. He also swore that they had not used plastic cups, but these re-surfaced almost as good as new. "It's frightening," he exclaimed. ...