Viking Long Ship Discovered in Loch Ness

[Åge Jonny Jørgensen]

WE, the vikings, will always be with you, whether you like it or not...............

Loch Ness (http://www.lochness.co.uk/exhibition/viking.html)

[Klondike Waldo]

I was prepared to accept the tale as authentic until the coffee grounds were brought in with the assertion that it showed that the Vikings sailed as far afield as South America. Coffee is native to North East Africa (Ethiopia)and was only introduced into South America during the Colonial Period. Someone has indulged in too much bad beer and fried Mars bars, I'm afraid.

[Åge Jonny Jørgensen]

There was an excavation in the Stavanger area once. This area in Norway (south-west), and the town itself existed also during the viking era. A Norwegian boy, who now happens to be a comedian, found the place after the archeologists had started digging. He and a friend had some Chinese coins which they left under a layer of soil. A couple of days later people could read in the local newspaper 'Stavanger Aftenblad' that archeologists had made a sensational and surprising discovery that led to the conclusion that Viking people around year 1000 A.D. had connections with China. This would probably been in the history books in Norway if it wasn't for the fact that the boy later confessed the bluff. Instead it became a warning to archeologists what might happen if they do not cover up digging sites properly.
But the story as a whole is quite funny.....
Funny that did not find the coffee bag with the Viking ship too. That would have told the archeologists which café the Vikings visited in America before turning their ships in thdirection of Scotland......... :wink:

[Texas Gael]

Originally posted by A Sleeping Piper:
WE, the vikings, will always be with you, whether you like it or not...............

Loch Ness (http://www.lochness.co.uk/exhibition/viking.html) Yes, lots of dead bodies left over from the raids! Now, tell us again the great story of how One-eyed Goll MacMorna took up his spear and shield and rushed down the brae along Loch Linnhe to slay the loud-mouthed Viking King, who was shouting his challenge!
:wink:

[rpeitzsch]

I didn't know that the vikings frequented Starbucks!
:D

[Pete Walen]

Of course - Coffee goes GREAT with SPAM.

[Redscot]

...and so you now see, my friend, how the legend of Starbucks began a long time ago...


Russ

[No, that's me over there...]

Maybe next time they will get the facts straight! They said coffee GROUNDS, but showed coffee BEANS!

[Mike Cole]

Originally posted by He who was:
Of course - Coffee goes GREAT with SPAM. ....... Lovely spam, wonderful spam....
Bloody vikings!

[Åge Jonny Jørgensen]

Originally posted by Texas Gael:
[QUOTE]Now, tell us again the great story of how One-eyed Goll MacMorna took up his spear and shield and rushed down the brae along Loch Linnhe to slay the loud-mouthed Viking King, who was shouting his challenge!
:wink: Next time we will challenge with pipes and not with swords, my fierce friend!

[dorothy]

Was the captain's name Piltdown, perhaps?

[CW]

Ni, I will not indulge in this pish.

Charlie

[Thom Lenahan]

Maybe that`s what`s been mistaken as "Nessie" all these years!!!

cheers,Thom

[Steve Serneels]

In a related news story:

Last week, Japanese scientists explaced... placed explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water. Sir Godfrey of the Nessie Alliance summoned the help of Scotland's local wizards to cast a protective spell over the lake and its local residents and all those who seek for the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.

[Scottishpiper]

Why is it that so many English tourists have Been presumed drowned in the depths of Loch Ness?
:wink:

[Jerry R. Pearce]

I thought that Nessies strict diet was restricted only to snare and tenor drummers. Isn't that why the pipers all play on the hills around the Loch to serenade her and soothe her feelings. Does this mean that the Welsh and Irish are safe?

[Don Robertson]

Big Foot was a guest on the boat when they stopped of in Seattle for some Latte's.
BTW, I know where L. Ron Hubbard, Madeline Murray Ohare and Jimmy Hoffa are.
:hatoff:

[Colonel644]

Originally posted by Don Robertson:
Big Foot was a guest on the boat when they stopped of in Seattle for some Latte's.
Sasqautch!!!!! :eek: He haunts my fears!!! now I have to look for him in a Seattle coffee-shop now!!!

Thanks for the heads up.

[Kitfox]

The truth had to come out some day and here it is.
I heard this from an ex-CIA agent who was on his death-bed.

"Elvis" was taken to meet with the "Evil Gray Abducting Aliens" so that "Hitlers Brain" could be "Implanted" into "Bigfoot", thus allowing him and the "Loch Ness Monster" to do battle against "The Forces of Darkness" so that the world could be made safe for a large selection of Cream-Filled Snack Cakes.
The whole Viking issue was just counterintelligence designed to throw the general public off the trail and make real research impossible.

You heard it here first.

*looks around nervously, tips fedora over eyes, pulls trench coat around tightly and steps out into the rainy night, piano solo trailing in the distance...empty Twinkie packets litter the lonely, wet street.

[Colonel644]

Originally posted by Kitfox:
so that the world could be made safe for a large selection of Cream-Filled Snack Cakes.
Well,,,, praise the Lord!!!!!

I can rest soundly now knowing the truth.

( Falls to sleep in a mound of twinkie wrappers, induced almost into a sugar coma )

[Don Robertson]

Originally posted by Kitfox:

*looks around nervously, tips fedora over eyes, pulls trench coat around tightly and steps out into the rainy night, piano solo trailing in the distance...empty Twinkie packets litter the lonely, wet street.** ** Somewhere, a dog was barking.
THE END
:hatoff:
Film Noir, as it were.

[Klondike Waldo]

sigh, all those twinkies and the damn Vikings sank the coffee :shrug: maybe that piano solo should be a zither- no, better yet a nickelharpa

[Norseman]

We Vikings like a few coffee beans added into our mead, now and then.

[Kevin M. MacHeffner Conquest]

"We've replaced the Vikings' normal coffee with new Folgers crystals. Let's see if they notice a difference?!??!?!?"

[Tartaniac]

I'm a double Gunn. I mean...that's the clan from which I hail. (In detailed lineage, I truly am a Schizophrenic Scot with links also to Hamilton, Walker, MacDonald, and others.)

We Gunns pride ourselves on our history of being blood-thirsty wretched varmits who came her through the upper isles then moved down into the Orkneys. There we pillaged, raped, and plundered the stinkin' islands. I guess we liked it. We stayed. We went further south through John o'Groats and down to Caithness where we got in a nasty argument with the Keiths. During the clearances, we were nearly wiped out.

At present, we have a brilliant, charming, kind, genteel, and dignified gentlemen by the name of Iain Gunn as clan Commander. (Someone in Holland is suing for the title of Chief and things have been tied up in Lord Lyons for years now. Until things are settled properly, Iain remains Commander.)

As I was saying, one of our old and anciet chiefs who had settled on the coast near Latheron and Helmsdale got a bit bored at on the windward side of The Island and decided to go back to the Norseland for adventure -- or so he claimed. He actually went to claim a young and beautiful bride and bring her to Scotland along with her money and loyal kinsmen warriors.

His WIFE back in Scotland did not take kindly to this once she discovered the ruse and, as a woman I can say this with clear conscience and knowing smile, Women Will Be Women. She encouraged her girlfriends and their hubbys to move the cliff fires (by which the seafaring Gunn's navigated -- primitive lighthouses) so her husband got home safely (no doubt to have his ears bashed about his head) and the sweet, young, and lovely princess was lost when her ship was dashed upon the vicious, jagged rocks beneath the cliffs.

Me thinks, she should have tried decaf and perhaps sent the chastened husband to Loch Ness to fetch it in his attempt to kiss and make up.

What???? No believers??????

[Tartaniac]

Originally posted by Tartaniac:
I'm a double Gunn. I mean...that's the clan from which I hail. Double meaning that I am linked both on the side of my family and through the family of my husband. (Vice is nice, but incest is best -- JUST JOKING!) In other words, through detailed lineage, I truly am a Schizophrenic Scot with links also to Hamilton, Walker, MacDonald, and others.

We Gunns pride ourselves on our history of being blood-thirsty wretched varmits who came her through the upper isles then moved down into the Orkneys. There we pillaged, raped, and plundered the stinkin' islands. I guess we liked it. We stayed. We went further south through John o'Groats and down to Caithness where we got in a nasty argument with the Keiths. During the clearances, we were nearly wiped out.

At present, we have a brilliant, charming, kind, genteel, and dignified gentlemen by the name of Iain Gunn as clan Commander. (Someone in Holland is suing for the title of Chief and things have been tied up in Lord Lyons for years now. Until things are settled properly, Iain remains Commander.)

As I was saying, one of our old and anciet chiefs who had settled on the coast near Latheron and Helmsdale got a bit bored at on the windward side of The Island and decided to go back to the Norseland for adventure -- or so he claimed. He actually went to claim a young and beautiful bride and bring her to Scotland along with her money and loyal kinsmen warriors.

His WIFE back in Scotland did not take kindly to this once she discovered the ruse and, as a woman I can say this with clear conscience and knowing smile, Women Will Be Women. She encouraged her girlfriends and their hubbys to move the cliff fires (by which the seafaring Gunn's navigated -- primitive lighthouses) so her husband got home safely (no doubt to have his ears bashed about his head) and the sweet, young, and lovely princess was lost when her ship was dashed upon the vicious, jagged rocks beneath the cliffs.

Me thinks, she should have tried decaf and perhaps sent the chastened husband to Loch Ness to fetch it in his attempt to kiss and make up.

What???? No believers??????

[redhairedpiper]

....I got nuthin....(though I'm told I'm Gunn as well....) Motto? Either Peace or War....

[Tartaniac]

Ah....I realize now that I neglected to give you the pre-punch set-up. Gunns were originally norsemen!

Egg on my face!
And a redheaded drummer I am.

[Klondike Waldo]

Yep that chief was a real son of a gunn :eek:

[No, that's me over there...]

Double-Gunn=double post?

[Tartaniac]

NOpe, out-gunned by my own computer ignorance... Dad-gunn-it.

Besides, I'd never quote myself. I'm too unrealiable.

[Linz]

Double Gunn - is that side-by-side or over-and-under? (Snort!) Sorry, I've been fighting the urge to post that for 2 days, and lost! :lol:

[Tartaniac]

Good one, Snorty!

Rifle and 9mm.

[Vegas George]

Originally posted by Rob Peitzsch:
I didn't know that the vikings frequented Starbucks!
:D But of course, laddie. Where did you think the term "Starboard" came from except the ancient Norse word "Starbeuches!," meaning "turn right for Africa and coffee!