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Good answer Mike. I particularly like the description "cavorting ninnies".
I get lots of emails which I do my best to answer. This question was based on a good email, but the attitude to academics and reconstruction surprised me.
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I'd actually like to be called a cavorting ninny. There's nothing wrong with it.
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Thanks Duncan. I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now.
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and its better than being a cavorting NANNY!
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They probably can.......
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I believe you are giving Joe Public a little more credit than he deserves :wink:
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OK OK! I was being rhetorical and not entirely literal. I should have said the public can't tell the difference between a Imperial Gallic I and the infamous Pioneer helmet.
I suppose I'm trying to be relaxed about this. My normal view is that cavorting ninnies should be shot. But I can see this may be viewed as extreme by some.
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Extreme? Not at all
The real argument is in how they are to be shot, perhaps where...
Tarbicus shall be excluded for sundry inane reasons... which is another thread topic , I'm sure. :wink:
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Sean
We can see you cavorting in your Avatar. They do not look like ninnys or nannies! It looks like you have walked on to the set of 'Up Pompeii'.
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The Avatar with moi et les babelings? From the E3 conference in LA a few years ago.. promoting a video game. They were all tall to begin with and then wearing thigh high boots with 6 inch heels... I found myself at the perfect height! There are advantages to be short.
The current Avatar... (Hibernicus, Gaius Hibernicus) is my preferred cavorting "costume".. Gets Mrs Hiberncius all cavorting too!
I even have an avatar that meets the Cavorting Ninny criteria.. maybe on the 28th.
UP POMPEII.. now that's real TV! Why can't we have a Roman Group based on that series??!!
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Can anyone PM me with the meaning of 'cavorting ninny'? PLEASE?
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Hi John
Some good points you raised there and interesting to note you are writing something about your re-enactment experiences.
Not sure I like being compared with an imp of Satan however, that sounds too much like being a red devil and you know who that represents!!! :evil:
Quote:I would rather cheer for Liverpool.
Now, can I have that carved in stone! :wink:
Quote:We can show them something they can't do.
or "I will show them something they have never seen before", now isn't that a line from a movie?
On another matter, so far I have not come across any archaeologist myself who was openly dismissive about Roman re-enactment.
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Hard cavorting ninnies.
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Graham, if I wrote a book on my re-enactment experiences, after the inevitable liable cases and heavy editing of sexual content, there would still be a 120,000 word exciting best seller left. However this is a short paper about how things are made and how they perform. Not quiet as exciting!
Kate, I agree with the points you made.
Tarbicus, you are a hard cavorting ninny.
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