Things people lose
I'm an expert at finding important things that people lose/ throw away.

So far me and my mates have managed to find a piece of the true cross, remains of the bloke who was meant to be the first black president of America, Boudicca frozen in carbonate and Excalibur; all hidden somewhere within the West Country.

I am a member of the Bonekickers archaeology team though
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 11:35, 8 replies)

mucho clickage!
yes - 'pleasant hokum' I think.

My other half works at a Roman site on the management side and has been howling with laughter at the 'archeaological' type methods and proposals.

So which one are you? Dolly?
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 11:37, closed)

I'm the guy who looks like Tim Russ's love child
I can't remember his actual name and can't be bothered to look it up in Wiki.

The series was so poor I had to tune in each week to see how bad it could get. The episode with robot snakes was probably the best.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 11:44, closed)

spare me
I spent 2 years as the Research Assistant for the real-life equivalent of Hugh Bonneville's character. That's the only true-to-life part of the whole series.

I was asked to do some work for Bonekickers. I declined when I found out they weren't prepared to pay me my daily consultancy fee. My best mate did the Latin scripting for it but she doesn't like anyone knowing that.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 11:45, closed)

Wow
I wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting to broadcast the fact that they worked on Bonekickers.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 11:52, closed)

We've retitled it
'Windowlickers'.

And my ex-boss is the loveliest man and I'm incredibly fond of him, even if he is the Boris Johnson of archaeology.

I can't bear to watch it, but then, I can't even bear to watch Time Team.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 11:58, closed)

Stolen from my mate on another site I frequent
How to write a script for the next series of Bonekickers (God hope that there isn't one)

All you have to do is pick a random page out of a history book and choose a person or object. Then throw a dart at a map of the westcountry, take the two and write a script about it, simple.
(mon bison powered by magnets, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 12:22, closed)

To be fair, though...
I used to go out with an Archaeologist, and I was finally persuaded to go on a real dig, for one afternoon, removing the top 5mm of sandy soil from a medaeval grave with a very small trowel. The "real thing" would be the most tedious, tedious television you can imagine.

Bonekickers is tosh, but it's fizzy tosh and it's still quite fun.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 12:23, closed)

yes it is tedious... friends of mine love coming up north to a proper dig where they do find stuff regularly (every day).

Frankly time team & bonekickers is a complete pisstake. At least Relic Hunter is funny.

CHCB's old boss - I've done some editing work for a couple of guys like that. Very charming and polite but only one topic of conversation.

So to pot washing....that is fucking tedious!
(twiceydrinker hmmm is it pint time?, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 13:20, closed)