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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:14 PM
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The hemisphere's oldest writing, deciphered
By me.
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theophilus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:21 PM
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1. GENIUS!!!!!!
Wow! It is amazing that way back then life was so similar to today. It really makes you think.

:rofl:
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:29 PM
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4. Who knew that the Olmec had shopping malls
and corn dogs? Truly, our civilization has deep roots.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:24 PM
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2. LOL!
:rofl: :thumbsup:
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 10:24 PM
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3. Hmm. Obviously, there are some errors in my translation.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:32 PM
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5. I bow down
You got the verbs, the adjectives and the adverbs. I grovel before your superior linguistic abilities.
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-17-06 12:01 AM
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7. Well, don't tell anyone, but I made it all up.
Especially all those figures of speech. Isn't it funny that we both picked out some of the same things, like grenades and shuttlecocks?
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 02:03 PM
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9. Although I question some of your scholarly conclusions
That's CLEARLY a vibrator, not a condom.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-16-06 11:33 PM
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6. That's clearly a 'walk-through" cheatsheet for some primitive video game.
3000 years old, and still no mention of how to
get to the blue key on level 2.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 02:02 PM
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8. How about an Olmec Loteria?
could make a great board.
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