Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:24 pm"Two, please," Will said, and then they entered the museum proper.
"Wow."
"Wow."
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Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:24 pmRe: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:29 pm"Is this where I make a joke about uncultured Americans?" she teases.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:36 pm"Yes, this would be that time. Go!"
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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?"
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:06 pm"What, the language learning software?" Will said, with innocent eyes.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:08 pm"Right, like I'm falling for that one." she chuckles.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:19 pm"Let's go then." she smiles, heading off towards the Egyptian section.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:27 pm"And the mommy-to-be can see some mummys-that-were!" Will teased.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:28 am"Now, now, I'm sure there's some dusty old dead GIRLS in here, too."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:34 am"You're not helping your case here." she giggles as they walk into the exhibition.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:58 am"Impressive. It doesn't even look that old---they've done such a job restoring the thing."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
"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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:46 pm"Probably safer to use metal. It's lucky the stone is so well preserved."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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?"
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:57 pm"You're kidding."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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..."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:00 pm"I would think they'd just replace the signs."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:03 pm"What, we're suddenly gonna forget what's in there? Not very likely."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:07 pm"Who knows. Maybe the Egyptians thought the same thing about the Pyramids."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:11 pm"Well, they were dumb and we are smart," Will chuckled.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:47 pm"Well, you're the expert on that here." she smiles.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:59 pmShe giggles. "I meant out of the two of us, goofball."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:00 pm"No, no, I think you were right the first time," Will teased.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:12 pm"Well then lead on with the tour." she grins.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:23 pmSara snorts. "Of course. Makes perfect sense." she giggles.
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:26 pmThis, 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."
And here's the governor himself. Quite please, he's resting."
Re: Mar 17: The British Museum Has Found It's Charm
Posted: 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.