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Lorien = Bad Archaeologist

Posted by on Sep 16, 2004 in Odds and Ends | 0 comments

I am a bad, bad archaeologist-intern. I was assigned to identifying this button medallion, today. Brass, horribly tarnished, can’t be soaked because it would ruin the paint. I was trying to brush off enough of the green gunk to read the Latin on the bottom, and all I could think was “just a little spit! One scrape of the tooth! All would be revealed!” But, alas, I was surrounded by the real archaeologists who would likely not appreciate saliva in contact with artifacts. Sigh. Indiana Jones wouldn’t have minded a little bit of tooth and spit. When looked at in a certain...

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