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12-17-2007, 03:19 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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14,000 year old tool kit
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There was a sickle for harvesting wild wheat or barley, a cluster of
flint spearheads, a flint core for making more spearheads, some smooth
stones (maybe slingshots), a large stone (maybe for striking flint
pieces off the flint core), a cluster of gazelle toe bones which were
used to make beads, and part of a second bone tool," he said.
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Discovery News : Discovery Channel
What would your tool kit look like if you had to name seven items today? 
Mine would be quite different than my ancestor's tool kit above. I would have as my seven items: Laptop computer, car key, house key, cell phone, MasterCard card, military ID card, K-Bar knife.
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12-17-2007, 03:27 PM
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A big hammer, a set of vice grips and five cold bottles of beer.
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12-17-2007, 03:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cute fuzzy bunny
A big hammer, a set of vice grips and five cold bottles of beer.
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Yeah, but you'd have to empty at least one of the beer bottles before you could smash it with the hammer to use as a cutting tool.
I wonder what archeologists would make of all the world's clipboards.
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12-17-2007, 04:00 PM
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keys, sunglasses, credit card and a cold bottle of water (oh, and pants, shirt & shoes) and i'm out the door. (optional cash, puter, cell phone.) no reason to wear a toolbelt anymore; the world is my toolbox.
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12-17-2007, 04:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nords
Yeah, but you'd have to empty at least one of the beer bottles before you could smash it with the hammer to use as a cutting tool.
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Why do you think I only have five left?
I was presuming that recyclable litter laying about didnt count towards my limit of 7.
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12-17-2007, 04:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mickeyd
Discovery News : Discovery Channel
What would your tool kit look like if you had to name seven items today?
Mine would be quite different than my ancestor's tool kit above. I would have as my seven items: Laptop computer, car key, house key, cell phone, MasterCard card, military ID card, K-Bar knife.
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Laptop, cell phone, recharger, Visa, passport, keyring.....snowshovel!
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