29th March 2011, 09:23 AM
"To inspire the future, you have to respect/understand the past"
Like this one a lot.
Not so sure about the time travel aspect. I understand that the effort is to make archaeology "accessible" but unless the context makes it abundantly clear that we are going backwards and are not boldly going where no archaeologist has gone before I fear that the time travel reference makes us sound far too specky-geeklike-spotters for my taste (my apologies to those who are spectacled (I am myself), into IT in a big way or like spotting trains and birds...but hopefully you'll get my drift...)...otherwise just call ourselves Time Team and have done
Like this one a lot.
Not so sure about the time travel aspect. I understand that the effort is to make archaeology "accessible" but unless the context makes it abundantly clear that we are going backwards and are not boldly going where no archaeologist has gone before I fear that the time travel reference makes us sound far too specky-geeklike-spotters for my taste (my apologies to those who are spectacled (I am myself), into IT in a big way or like spotting trains and birds...but hopefully you'll get my drift...)...otherwise just call ourselves Time Team and have done
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!