Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:24 pm

"Two, please," Will said, and then they entered the museum proper.

"Wow."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:29 pm

"Is this where I make a joke about uncultured Americans?" she teases.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:36 pm

"Yes, this would be that time. Go!"

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:44 pm

"Damn, now I wish I actually had one lined up..." she says as the two wander through the round lobby.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:53 pm

"I keep setting you up, too," Will sighed, shaking his head. "Oh well. What did you want to see first?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:02 pm

"Well there's a couple things you really should see the first time here, like the Rosetta Stone."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:06 pm

"What, the language learning software?" Will said, with innocent eyes.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:08 pm

"Right, like I'm falling for that one." she chuckles.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:13 pm

"Drat, I've trained you too well. Yeah, that's a big one I really want to see--it's history."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:19 pm

"Let's go then." she smiles, heading off towards the Egyptian section.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:27 pm

"And the mommy-to-be can see some mummys-that-were!" Will teased.

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:28 am

"Don't compare me and Robin to dusty old dead guys!" she pretends to complain with a chuckle.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:28 am

"Now, now, I'm sure there's some dusty old dead GIRLS in here, too."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:34 am

"You're not helping your case here." she giggles as they walk into the exhibition.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:36 am

"Oh well, I'm sure you can find something to compare ME to I'll take umbrage at," he chuckled. "Woah...look at all this stuff."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:42 am

"Yeah..." she just says as the two wander through the exhibition quietly for a while, eventually coming up to the glass case the Rosetta Stone is sitting in.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:58 am

"Impressive. It doesn't even look that old---they've done such a job restoring the thing."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:12 am

"Yeah, it's amazing. Makes me wonder if I should have gone into this kind of thing, you know? I bet I'd be great at finding things in the ground and getting them out."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:15 pm

"You probably would, yeah--a treasure hunter," he smiled.

"Can you imagine? Maybe in two thousand years we'll forget English and have to work backwards to figure it out.

Maybe I should write my script in multiple languages....and carve it into a big ol' rock."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:46 pm

"Probably safer to use metal. It's lucky the stone is so well preserved."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:47 pm

"And it was a complete accident, too, that they found it--really amazing. All the best things seem to happen by accident."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:52 pm

"Seems like it." she smiles, putting a hand on her stomach. "Let's hope no one'll need a Rosetta Stone for English though. But did you know there's actually an institute solely for preserving the development of the language so it can be traced back?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:57 pm

"You're kidding."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:59 pm

"No, but, well it's kinda so there's someone around who can translate all the warnings around Yucca Mountain in a thousand years, so it could be for a better cause..."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:00 pm

"I would think they'd just replace the signs."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:02 pm

"A lot of them are buried and signs could get worn off... I guess they don't wanna take any chances."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:03 pm

"What, we're suddenly gonna forget what's in there? Not very likely."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:07 pm

"Who knows. Maybe the Egyptians thought the same thing about the Pyramids."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:11 pm

"Well, they were dumb and we are smart," Will chuckled.

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:22 pm

"That's why we make sure people in the future will know about the mountain stuffed full of death." she smirks.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:27 pm

"...A fair point," he laughed. "Don't think we have to worry about it, though. English ain't dying."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:47 pm

"Well, you're the expert on that here." she smiles.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:52 pm

"THAT's true. I should go find some of those museum guys and teach 'em a lesson," he chuckled.

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:59 pm

She giggles. "I meant out of the two of us, goofball."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:00 pm

"No, no, I think you were right the first time," Will teased.

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:12 pm

"Well then lead on with the tour." she grins.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:21 pm

"Right. This, of course, is the Rosetta Stone, discovered by Joey Rosetta in a warehouse in New Jersey. It's from the Ptolemaic era, where New Jersey was, of course, under the rule of Governor Ptol. Governor Ptol was, of course, of Russian descent, explaining these nesting dolls."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:23 pm

Sara snorts. "Of course. Makes perfect sense." she giggles.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:26 pm

This, of course, is the work order the governor signed, allowing Rosetta to remove the stone from it's crate, without paying the necessary export taxes, which is why it's in the British Museum today. The guy's heart on the scale, there, is the typical tax in New Jersey.

And here's the governor himself. Quite please, he's resting."

by **Sara Stanton** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:32 pm

"Wow, I didn't know New Jersey valued art in their official documents so much. So why was Ptol entombed like that?" she asks, trying not to laugh.

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