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moss M
moss Sep 16, 2009 13:56:03
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
nigelswift wrote:
Interestingly, in a field containing 500 cowpats all 500 form isosceles triangles.
Oh ye all of little faith... Wait until something really 'out-of-this-world' comes along (mind, until then I'm keeping to my big pigpen theory ;-)
Well talking of fields and pigs, (and I was keeping this bit of news quiet -hunting and slaughtering of pigs Rupert)
Macabre sacrificing of pigs 2000 years ago is making the headlines in Hallaton. It does'nt bear thinking about, they had their front legs cut off poor creatures....

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Macabre-ritual-Leicestershire-field-key-past/article-1339343-detail/article.html

L Littlestone
Littlestone Sep 16, 2009 14:20:44
Replying to moss

"Leicester University's Vicki Score, who has been working on the discovery, said: "What is very intriguing is that the front right legs of all the animals are missing."

That would allow the poor porkies to rummage for food while preventing them from doing a runner.

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves Sep 16, 2009 15:05:49
Replying to moss

It's this kind of discovery that makes the idea of fantastical energy systems so completely daft. Yes, we had the country completely surveyed, with grand monuments at all the big intersections, but we still divined the future from chicken entrails and sacrificed handicapped children at the equinoxes.