It's my job.
I started my career as an archaeologist. I've therefore found loads of shit: skeletons; fleshier versions of these; gold; far too much pottery; flints; a series of small walls; amber; tools; postholes; crisp bags; a huge amount of post-medieval crap; shoes; animal bones; actual preserved lumps of shit; wattle; daub; slag; ash; mud.

Every single one of those finds was exciting*







*That's a lie. Every single one of those finds was exciting until it started raining and the temperature plummeted to -5 degrees and I was covered head-to-toe in sticky mud and my sandwiches had fallen down the portaloo and I'd lost my trowel in the spoil heap. We weren't allowed to keep anything either.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 1:09, 8 replies)

I always wanted to be an archaeologist.
But the working in all weather conditions put me off......that and the fact I am thick.
( girlinthehole, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 9:32, closed)

You're telling fibs.
I bet you kept the poo.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 9:39, closed)

Nope.
I put it in a small finds bag and labelled it "Trench 3; Context no. 564: coprolite". It then becomes someone else's problem.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 9:47, closed)

Coprolite?
Isn't that like Bananaman's version of Kryptonite?

EDIT

*gazes into the distance and disappears off in a land of his own fantasy*

"This is 29 Acacia Road, and this is Eric -The schoolboy who leads an exciting double life. For, when Eric eats a brown banana, an amazing transformation occurs...

Eric is... FUCKED"
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 9:48, closed)

coprolite
is fossilized shit
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 13:22, closed)

Well
DUH. That is what I meant by 'brown banana' ;)
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 14:04, closed)

haha
Yes, I've done some work for my father in the past on his digs. We found a few bones, which we'd spend a few hours photographing, measuring, labelling and gently washing, to find it was a cow bone or something mundane.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 11:31, closed)

Did the other archaeologists
have beards instead of brushes!

Spotted the ninja Eddie reference :)
( Maladicta, Fri 7 Nov 2008, 20:13, closed)