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September 1, 2009
The Archaeology of Primitive Subcultures!
Archaeologists have turned their attention to a strange, primitive tribe whose living conditions might seem hard to imagine: it was an age of heavy green canvas, wooden tent pegs and tribal elders in baggy, khaki shorts left over from their National Service.The Seventies may be only 30 years ago but for today's generation of cool campers it might as well be the Dark Ages, before the invention of the pop-up tent and the self-inflating sleeping mat, when you were expected to blow up your own lilo* and when a portable toilet meant a bucket screened by hessian sacking.
God alone knows what they will find!
*I wonder what a "lilo" is? From context it is something inflatable. A dirigible? A pterodactyl? A brooch? Talk about a foreign language! Those Brits! None of the first page of hits on google is at all informative.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at September 1, 2009 10:11 PM