8th June 2006, 10:35 AM
Can't remember where I first heard it, but it has been doing the rounds for a long time (has the ring of truth about it tho'!):
Archaeologists deep in a muddy trench, howling wind, rain, clay natural, freezing cold etc.
The bloke who cleans the portaloo (i.e. spends his days sucking up **** and wiping piss off the floor) arrives at their trench, pokes his head over and offers 'Jeez, you've got the worst job in the world!', before walkin off to clean more toilets...
Thanks for that info about smoking DR Pete - I always suspected that it was an urban (rural?) myth since nobody ever was able to tell me why cigarette ash would contaminate a sample and not e.g. lying in the ground for 2000 years....
Archaeologists deep in a muddy trench, howling wind, rain, clay natural, freezing cold etc.
The bloke who cleans the portaloo (i.e. spends his days sucking up **** and wiping piss off the floor) arrives at their trench, pokes his head over and offers 'Jeez, you've got the worst job in the world!', before walkin off to clean more toilets...
Thanks for that info about smoking DR Pete - I always suspected that it was an urban (rural?) myth since nobody ever was able to tell me why cigarette ash would contaminate a sample and not e.g. lying in the ground for 2000 years....