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"seeing her face by the light of a post-coital Craven A".
To which I said "Huh?"
As well you might. Why any half-way rational user of the so-called "English" language would want to call a product on which they are trying to convince people to spend their money Craven anything is totally beyond me. Have they no concept of the meaning of words?
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>Have they no concept of the meaning of words? oh, it was probably just a misreading of Shakespeare. 
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And American cigarette had risible names also, e.g. Camels, the only brand with a picture of the factory on the package, and I don't mean the Pyramids.
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Mention of the Pyramids reminds me of an interesting little book I read a couple years ago. It was written by a French chemist who specialized in inorganic compounds (geopolymers) of which Portland cement is only one. He became convinced that the Pyramids were built not of stone blocks laboriously shaped and hauled into place, but cast in place with a mixture of minerals, using the same casting forms over and over. This makes sense to me. He gave a lot of reasons that I accept. But since he is not a card carrying archaeologist, nobody will pay any attention to him. His name was Davidovitz, and I used to be able to find his site on the Internet using a combination of Pyramids and his name. It may not be there any longer. I have noticed that Yahoo dumps some things over ten years old. http://www.mm2000.nu/sphinxh.html
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hmm... combining this theory with the 6000-year old universe and Edgar Cayce....
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Dear tsuwm: You seem to be reacting like the closed clique of archaeologists who refuse to even read the book, which I found entirely convincing. No lost Continent of Mu or phoney Atlantis about it. Incidentally, there is another damned fine book convincingly attributing the Atlantis myth to the catastrophic destruction of an advanced early Greek civilization by a huge volcanic eruption on one of the Cyclades just a bit southwest of Turkey, the name of which I cannot recall at the moment.The archeologists are getting to dig this one, so they buy it. Davidovitz has the misfortune of embarrassing too many of the old school.That is unforgiveable. P.S. I could not find anything in Encarta Encyclopedia, but found a site that gave map of Cyclades, and found the Island of Santorini, which I believe in ancient times was called Thera. Apparently the volcanic eruption was so many centuries earlier than Plato, that no knowledge of it remained. Now I'll go back to internet to see if I can find anything except tourist spiels. P.P.S. I hit the jack pot, a site with a lot of information about the Atlantis myth and modern discoveries. http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Santorini+Thera+volcanic+eruption
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Atlantis myth
My theory is that the disappearance of Atlantis is equivalent to the "Great Flood" and the story of Baucis and Philemon.
ABC had a special on about a week ago promoting their new movie Atlantis and they said that some oceanographers think they have found Atlantis. They say that Cuba once was a much larger island that was home to an advanced civilization. Some native American cultures have stories of a great snake in the sky that caused massive flooding. They say this was a comet's tail that looked like a snake and the flooding wiped out the southern 3/4 of Cuba. They had a quote from Plato making it sound like trips were regularly made from Greece to Atlantis.
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Dear Jazzo: Hollywood can always find talented flacks to promote a movie.
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When I was in High School, nearly fifteen years ago, I wrote a paper about Ancient Egypt. In doing research for it, I came across a magazine which featured the story of how some scholar had analysed the stone blocks of the pyramids, and come to the conclusion that they had been poured and not hewn. The evidence for this included some hair or fiber that had been found within one of the blocks when it was split open. I don't remember the name of the scientist or even the magazine, but perhaps it was this Davidovitz who has been working on this theory for quite a number of years now... Marianna
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