Pointless Anecdotes: Why I'll never be a comedian

2007-08-05

Arkland has a hilarious take on the recent debate about archaeological pseudoscience.

I just have to admit that I could never have written anything similarly funny, I would have got too caught up in actually computing the correct path of Uranus in 4321 BCE.

Anonymous said...: Neither will I! It was actually someone who did some calculating on the path of Uranus...; 20:18

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