> > Filming at a 2000 year old murder mystery today in deepest > > Gloucestershire, UK (pronounced 'Glos'tur'shur').
Don't believe him - he's just trying to embarrass American tourists into an amusing mispronunciation. In fact, it's pronounced "Glue Sisters Higher". > > Gravel extraction > > workings unearthed tell-tale discolouration of the ground and the > > archaeologists were called in. A Roman burial site > consisting of about > > 90 bodies is being excavated, one with a knife sticking in > his/her back! > > The wooden handle long-since rotted away, the blade clearly visible > > sticking through the back just above the pelvis. Bloody Romans were a shoddy lot. Never built anything to last. > > > > Anyway, archaeologists are a funny lot, grubby and > methodical, set in > > their ways. One guy climbed a stepladder with a filthy > black case and > > produced a matching set of K1000s to take pictures! To be > fair they did > > also use a couple of point and shoot digicams (didn't catch > the make) > > but the Pentax's were heavily used and covered in dust. I > made sure the > > cutaway shot of the photographer with the K1000 to his eye > was nice and > > closeup, I hope they use it in the piece to be broadcast > this evening. Probably dug the cameras out of a medieval cesspool. Great story - I'm looking forward to learning more about it. Bob
