Whilst watching a show about minotaurs...

[fey_puck]

Which is kind of an odd thing to focus a show on, I guess, but that's the History Channel for you! Or, well, Theseus vs. the Minotaur to be precise, which makes a bit more sense, but is less fun when broken down to a basic Athens vs. Crete showdown

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[hippediva]

BWAAAHAAAAAAA! Now that sounds remarkably like something my mother would have done to me. *snickers* She'd probably have sent the message along to my dad, who would have mildly asked whether or not she wanted a beer with that veal---um....kid. LOL!

[fey_puck]

Hahaha! I'd totally opt for that beer! Sometimes it strikes me as amazing how much my parents have had to put up with....but then I figure I had to have gotten it from SOMEWHERE and don't feel so bad =P

[gogoangelgunboy]

makes me wish my mom had a sense of humour. *laughing*

and HISTORIANS - DUDES! that is theorising beyond your data. just cos they show marks similar to butchering doesn't mean they WERE butchered, and even if they WERE dismembered in a way that suggests butchering, it doesn't mean they were EATEN. now, if there are TEETHMARKS in the bones - you know, scrapes and gnaw-marks, THEN i'll believe the cretans engaged in ritual cannabilism, which seems really ar odds with what we know not only of THEIR civilsation but would likely make them unique in a way that seems hard to credit. i do like the way the programmers decided that there might be something behind the myth, though - even if mary renault did it first *grins*

[fey_puck]

My mom is either a saint...or insane *grins*

OMG THANK YOU. You have no idea how frustrated I get while watching these shows! I sit there and grit my teeth and correct them, while anyone else in the room rolls their eyes at me. GRAR. I mean, yeah, in context of the show it seemed like a reasonable possibility and one that certainly added to their claims...but they still jumped a shark on this one. I think their conclusion was: Athens = Reason. Crete = Brutality. Reason cuts Brutality. Ocean covers all.

[fey_puck]

She...smiled. In this particular way she has, when she realizes her only daughter is Not All There. She wore the same smile the one time I asked if she'd still love me when I became an assassin... *grins*

ALSO: HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY *TACKLEGLOMPLOVE*