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May 15, 2012 08:36AM
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Could I have task 500 please?
Lu, in the list where we can see which numbers have been picked there is something strange going on. It starts after number 44. Could you look at it?
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Thanks! I think it is sorted now :)
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Thanks!
Yes it looks much better!
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What is a GLBT?
Done with nr 45, read a book about angels
Next I pick #89 please
Varla Fiona wrote: "Yeah Barbara, I think that is a pretty easy one to fit in, no matter what you are reading!!What is a GLBT?"
GLBT is for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered :-)
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I seem to remember that the highest number we can pick is 540. I can't seem to find if that is true or not. If it is could I have that number and if it isn't could I have the highest number we can pick?
Thanks!
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540 - Read a Mystery
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Thanks!
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Can I have 272 next please?
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Can I have No. 26 next please :)
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Lol this should be good! :P
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Oh no! I was sooo very tempted to choose 26 (my age :P), but some little voice kept telling me not too. So glad I listened. Good luck Lauren!
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! It was awesome!
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Can anyone think of another creature?? Maybe a Mammoth or a Saber tooth cat? Those are pre-historic right?
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In the mean time I finished my number. Could someone that hasn't yet please choose me a new number?
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"On a business trip to Bermuda, realtor Diana Holcomb's small plane goes down over the ocean, a victim of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
Diana wakes up to find herself on a deserted island...that really isn't all that deserted. First, a gigantic dinosaur tries to eat her. Then she's captured by cavemen, and just when things are looking their worst, she's rescued by none other than a gorgeous man with the body of an Adonis and the jungle skills of Tarzan."
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I'm googling it and prehistoric means before written history,thats only like 6000 years ago right? Maybe elephants or something were around then? Im looking into it.
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"On a business trip to Bermuda, realtor Diana Holcomb's small plane goes down over the ocean, a victim of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
Diana wakes up to f..."
Oh hey not a terrible suggestion, if I am forced to read a dinosaur book. I love this authors succubus series!
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Try that one, I think you'll like it :)
Oh and thanks for the number:
29 - Read a book published in 2012
Ooooh yay!
I know the damn hard core sci-fi one is going to come for me next :(
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Good night btw, got class in the morning.
Done with 89
page count 336Can I please have #178 next... And if this one is the hardcore sci-fi one then I will know you tampered with the numbers Lu :-P
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Lu, I have to step in here and agree with Lauren. Prehistoric literally does mean before history. And history begins as soon as we begin to write events down. So it does ends a couple of thousands of years ago. For the task it does not really matter because it is clear what you mean.
Lauren, I know you have chosen your book but just some tips for if it really sucks. In the task it doesn't say that the creatures have to be alive or that the book has to be set in that period. That would mean that you could read a book about a scientific expedition that finds a frozen dinosaur in the ice somewhere.
And how do you feel about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He wrote the Lost World and that has dinosaurs in it.
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Lu is just victimising me because she knows that I hate dinosaur books and she is secretly gleeful that I got this challenge! :p The frozen dinosaur expedition thing is a great idea if the book I am reading gets too cheesy for me to handle that is definitely the route I am going to go.
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178 - Read a book that has a 4 word title
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I'm going to have to disagree with both of you. There is another word for that. Ancient or something (can't remember now). What else would you call Prehistoric creatures then? If not prehistoric? Also paleontologist deal with Prehistoric bones. I know this cause I don't work with anything over 100,000 year, cause then it is their baby and not mine.
Lol I wanted to suggest something about fossils, but I'm not sure Lauren would like it lol
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On another note, I started Fated last night, only about 20 pages, but it will work for my challenge :)
Yeah :-D I've had easy ones so far! *touch wood*
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Lu wrote:
I'm going to have to disagree with both of you. There is another word for that. Ancient or something (can't remember now). What else would you call Prehistoric creatures then? If not prehistoric? Also paleontologist deal with Prehistoric bones. I know this cause I don't work with anything over 100,000 year, cause then it is their baby and not mine.
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The problem is that you use terms for historians and not archaeologists. Prehistory is a term devised by historians to describe the period they do not cover but we, archaeologists do. Although more recently that line has become blurred since there are areas where prehistory and history overlap and sometimes archaeology is even used to solved mysteries that were created in history because no one wrote about it or the records were lost (see for example the excavations of the concentration camps).
My prehistory class when I took it 18 years ago (God I am getting old) included the last ice age and the homonidae and early humans and went on to the point where the cultural regions classes could take over.
Maybe there are also cultural differences in the field. I mean in the Netherlands a paleontologist also deals with the bones of a mammoth and they went extinct only about 10.000 years ago. I worked on a dig were we excavated the oldest skeleton of a woman ever found in the Netherlands (7500 years old) and we had a paleontologist examine a turtle shell we found in the same layer.
The term you should have used is Jurassic maybe also Triassic, because you want animals that are pre-homo or pre-homonid and saurian. Also because I don't think you want to include all the creatures in what you call prehistory because the tribolites are technically in there but don't make interesting reading subjects (but then again I doubt anyone has tried to write a book of fiction about them). Maybe you should have just left it at dinosaurs:)
You're welcome Lauren. Although I am curious when I will ask for my new task what I am going to get. I have been lucky so far but maybe Lu has a vindictive side I don't know about and I will get something really horrible next time :P
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But as a lay person with only an interest in history I would have to agree that I always understood prehistoric to mean "before recorded history" but I think you are right that the definition changes depending on the context in which it is used.
Really I was just looking for a loop hole! Fingers crossed my next challenge is a little more to my taste.
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A creature is such a wide term as is prehistoric :P
Just teasing you Lu!
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"paleontologist examine a turtle shell we found in the same layer."
What!?! Dear lord the archaeozoologist would be outraged here!
But I do agree it is a very abstract definition. Like saying something is ancient, it can mean differed things to different people.
Also if we look at it, Crocodiles are dinosaurs and they are still living lol
I think this is also one of those situations where it makes sense to me as I deal and talk about things like this a lot and I didn't stop to think and make it clearer lol
Another thing I think that could make it clearer - If it is fossilized it is prehistoric, go with that :)
--- Hehe Barbara I like discussing things with you :) So don't worry I won't be mean!
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Heheh if you find a book like that tell me! I would read it :D
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Archaeozoologists in the Netherlands deal more with animals whose species aren't extinct or weren't extinct until recently (since so many animals are going extinct and have gone extinct in the last 1000 years). The turtle we found was a species that was extinct. Turtles aren't native to the Netherlands and it was only the third ever found in these regions.
And how about that fish (I forgot its name) that they found on a market in some country a couple of years ago. A fish that was supposed to have gone extinct millions of years ago. So crocodiles aren't the only prehistoric creatures still around. Also who knows what there is to be found on the bottom of the ocean.
I know how it is talking about something and then forgetting the other peron's knowledge differs from yours. I have been reading a lot about kings and queens of England and sometimes I tell my mum something about it and her face goes totally blank because I assume that she knows something that for me is basic knowledge and she never heard of this king. Always very funny. My favorite thing in archaeology to talk about that gives people blank stares is dendrochronology. When I explain what it is everyone knows what I mean but no one knows the word for it.
Not to be a pain (or maybe to be a pain :P) I wouldn't say if it is fossilized it is prehistoric. The common fly has been found fossilized in amber in several time periods (prehistoric and modern). So are several other modern insects. That would leave open a lot of options that you wouldn't want. Even the book Charlotte's Web since I am sure there is a fossil somewhere of a poor spider who walked into a drop of amber and was preserved for posterity.
I am so sorry but I am good in finding loopholes. Well actually I am good in reading and taking things literal and taking advantage of that.
If you don't mind Lu, I will stop worrying about you being mean after I have requested my new task :P
Well there are movies and episodes of television series around that theme so I guess there should be some books around. I'll let you know if I find any :)
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I would say Fossilized Mammals, but then we might go into the debate of was all dinosaurs Mammals... lol
How about, just read a book with a Dinosaur in it? :) That term should be clear enough (don't look for loopholes lol)
PS: Good night!
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Can't wait to see what your new task is going to be and what loopholes we can find :)
Good night, Lu, sweet dreams!
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Asking for it three times. If you posted it several times because you think Lu didn't see it I think she has gone to bed or is off line for the rest of the evening since she said good night in message 594.
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