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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Chat & News => Topic started by: Ithoriel on 23 March 2014, 12:32:03 AM

Title: Barrow Boy
Post by: Ithoriel on 23 March 2014, 12:32:03 AM
Am I the only one to see this and think "Ooh! Cool!?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-26683268 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-26683268)

(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/73724000/jpg/_73724856_dsc_0235.jpg)
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Sandinista on 23 March 2014, 12:41:23 AM
Nope
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 March 2014, 01:13:56 AM
Bit of a fixer upper, but I'll take it!
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Techno on 23 March 2014, 08:11:08 AM
That's great !
Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: howayman on 23 March 2014, 09:47:41 AM
Just think what they could have built if they had had the Transit and digger in the back ground !
                                 ;)
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Hertsblue on 23 March 2014, 10:48:06 AM
Yeah, I was just thinking - how traditional was a JCB?  :P
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Fenton on 23 March 2014, 10:50:54 AM
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 March 2014, 10:48:06 AM
Yeah, I was just thinking - how traditional was a JCB?  :P

Only during the later Bronze age...
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: paulr on 23 March 2014, 07:12:55 PM
Love the last quote, "They're like London buses. You don't get one for 5,000 years and then all of a sudden two come at once."  ;D
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 23 March 2014, 07:43:39 PM
 =O =O =O
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Hertsblue on 24 March 2014, 09:49:07 AM
Quote from: paulr on 23 March 2014, 07:12:55 PM
Love the last quote, "They're like London buses. You don't get one for 5,000 years and then all of a sudden two come at once."  ;D

Yes, if you've ever been to London you'll know that the buses travel in convoys. Whether it's a defensive measure or not no-one has ever discovered....
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: toxicpixie on 24 March 2014, 10:36:16 AM
That's ace! Where do you sign up?! Also, what a good setting for an Ancients game...
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Ace of Spades on 24 March 2014, 12:57:32 PM
Now this quote is quite remarkable too: 'We haven't built a long barrow for 5,000 years'  First of all they must be the longest ever exisitng contracting firm and second; how much profit have they made on the last one that they apparently managed to keep in bussiness for 5000 years after their last contract?!? :-\

Cheers!
Rob
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: toxicpixie on 24 March 2014, 02:48:14 PM
The economies picking up, we've had 5000 year slump but we're back on track. Two barrows in a year!
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: howayman on 24 March 2014, 10:03:34 PM
One thing. Where do you put the wheels?
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: paulr on 24 March 2014, 10:43:08 PM
Quote from: toxicpixie on 24 March 2014, 02:48:14 PM
The economies picking up, we've had 5000 year slump but we're back on track. Two barrows in a year!

Perhaps they took the Magrathean approach and slept throught the slump  ;)
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: toxicpixie on 25 March 2014, 09:10:47 AM
It's evidently a growth industry, after all people are always gonna die and always need burying!*

*Cremating/mummifying/dropping into bogs, your choice!
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Hertsblue on 25 March 2014, 09:25:48 AM
Quote from: toxicpixie on 25 March 2014, 09:10:47 AM
It's evidently a growth industry, after all people are always gonna die and always need burying!*

*Cremating/mummifying/dropping into bogs, your choice!

They're alive to all possibilities....
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Ace of Spades on 25 March 2014, 10:18:02 AM
Quote from: Hertsblue on 25 March 2014, 09:25:48 AM
They're alive to all possibilities....
That may be true, but will they live up to the expectations? :-\

Cheers,
Rob ;)
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: toxicpixie on 25 March 2014, 10:28:39 AM
I think this thread is a goner, it's definitely dead. Been stone walled, too.

Still, it might come alive again in a few years. Say, 5000 :D
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: FierceKitty on 25 March 2014, 12:04:21 PM
As a movie: The Blog.
Title: Re: Barrow Boy
Post by: Subedai on 25 March 2014, 03:50:38 PM
Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 March 2014, 10:48:06 AM
Yeah, I was just thinking - how traditional was a JCB?  :P

Quote from: Fenton on 23 March 2014, 10:50:54 AM
Only during the later Bronze age...

A little known fact is that the Bronze Age was named after the inventor of the JCB -a Mr Josephus Caratacus Bronze!