I hope you had a good holiday! I did. Today’s old cartoon is a bit premature, because Rosetta Stone Day isn’t until July 19, and no, there isn’t really such a thing as “Rosetta Stone Day.” If I remember correctly, the message of the Rosetta Stone was a statement of rules and instructions for a communal bath house. That’s not as laughable as it seems to us today, for the ancients performed all manner of personal ablutions in one another’s company. It wasn’t just hot-tubbing. I should think it was important for everyone to know the rules.
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Jackie, I found it. Click on December 2010 in the Archives at the bottom of today’s post, and then click on “Next” at the bottom of Jimmy’s posts until you reach the one for Dec 20th 2010, captioned “A real paint”. You will perhaps find it interesting and enlightening.
Doesn’t everybody learn about the Rosetta Stone in school, even up through the present day? It is an outstanding historical fact, and not complicated or hard to understand. Especially since mummies, pyramids and heiroglyphics seem to be very popular with the elementary school crowd.
The only time I used the bath house in Japan was with a few other GIs. We used it like a swimming pool, diving in. I don’t think it was appreciated. It was not repeated.
MarkTT, thanks for the link to those cartoons; most are quite good. I think I shall keep the link until I can view them all.
cxp, you’re welcome. I just did a quick search under his name during my lunch break and found that link. I thought even if you don’t find the one you mentioned, there are plenty more gems in that mine!
Thanks, Ghost. I once had a friend who taught with a similar philosophy except I think his conclusion was that if there were 500 listening and three got the real message, he was happy to have reached those three. Of course he was not trying to be funny.
Love, Jackie Monies
In the link I posted a few days ago about how “I spent my summer vacation”….(Cheech and Chong’s Sister Mary Elephant)…anyway, she was substituting for ‘Sister Rosetta Stone”…..so, how may of you ‘caught’ that?
GR;) ….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
I’ll be back……………………………….
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/gallery/aging/galagingc.php
And this is pathetically true…..did I ever mention term limits? Hey the president can only serve 8..so why the ‘on, and on, and on with the same old ones’???? Ref: Turn, Turn, Turn
After the holiday loonies?
The Rosetta Stone was a blow dryer on the wall of that bath house and worked just as well as the ones I run across. Archeologist of the future finds a blow dryer and interprets the directions. “It’s some kind of prayer box. It says to place your hands beneath it.”
And he’ll be right.
Something else of interest I found posted in December of 2010. 😉
http://arloandjanis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1993-11-15-pink.gif
I could tell a story with a similar theme that would get me in so much trouble.
…holiday loonies??
I’m outta here….storms
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
But…not before this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DED812HKWyM&feature=kp
..just who didn’t see that coming 🙂
stay safe…wherever one is
‘holiday loonies”, Loon give me hint………….later
I used a communal bath in Sakai, Japan several times. It was across the street from our apartment and a welcome change from our apartment’s shower room which had too little insulation to make it useful on windy, wintry days.
Here’s a Rosetta Stone cartoon:
http://www.roguesymmetry.com/2013/08/a-rosetta-stone-cartoon.html
And without comment:
http://spectator.org/blog/54407/liberal-rosetta-stone-yogi-love
So, now for something that turns Egytologists’ stomaches!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/africa/23iht-pyramid.1.12259608.html
Debbe – Considering I was singing it before I even clicked the link, I think I saw it coming. 🙂
TruckerRon – It my dream to visit the pyramids some day. Honestly, poured or carved blocks, they are still fantastic engineering feats. In it’s own way, if it turns out to be true years down the way, that’s almost more impressive. Ancient concrete has (if my memory serves) only been surpassed in its durability on within the past few decades ago: modern concrete also utilizes rebar for structural integrity.
I just find it sad that so many scientists limit their point-of-view without looking into all possibilities. Actually, that is true for all of the human race. Can you imagine where we might be as a species if we were willing to suspend our preconceived notions and prejudices? How many great scientists, artists, philosophers, or technological, medical, and social advancements have we missed because they didn’t fit the status quo?
The Egyptian pyramids were built by extraterrestrials. Just ask the History Channel.
Ghost – No, extraterrestrials built the ones in South America; they then moved to Arizona to retire. 20th Century Fox built the ones in Egypt for Elizabth Taylor and Richard Burton for Cleopatra. 🙂
And Arlo is right; with the advancements in cell phone camera technology, you’d think you’d see more UFO pictures.
How they gained their expertise in working with rocks, Lady Mindy.
http://www.davidreneke.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/graphic.jpg
Debbe 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7TLnRThxL0
Good morning Villagers….
I always loved Marvin the Martian:
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0030547/quotes…. 🙂
Indy Mindy….we got more storms coming in.
GR 😉 thanks for Little Feat, bookmarked. But I just may wake the boys to “Rio”. Or water….getting tired of repeatedly telling them to get up.
Speaking of community bath, I won’t get into a hotel’s swimming pool, let alone get in their hot tub. Worked at a hotel where they had both, and I saw the kind of people who would get in them. Even though in the set of rules, it stated to take a shower before entering the pool and spa….no one ever did. The worst ones were the golfers….straight in from the golf course.
Too tired to think this morn….
ya’ll have a blessed day