time team vs. eastenders: FITE!!!

I hope you don't mean me, I'm noveaux pauvre.

Ed knows I hate the Archers, mostly because of totally twee, mincy theme. He only gets to listen in the car.

In 1000 years they will re-dig and find accidentally dropped Doritos bag and not immediately think 'hmm, archaeologists'.

Am going to do a Nick-style dodge and pose the following:

500 years in the future, they dig up where you currently live. Tell me what they find and the most extreme possible extrapolation hypothesised
from these 'artefacts' alone.

Besides, 'Stenders is now finished. So Kate is rapt in front that hot stud muffin Tony Robinson and his luscious pouting assistants you'll have plenty of time to HIJACK.

They do this on purpose! I have seen my friend Kate The Archaelogist use crisp packets as markers when she had to refill trenches. You can't beat ready dated non-biodegradeable markers apparently.

If this proves as popular as I think Graham could build us some sophisticated voting facility.

and then we put on Adam Ant's Desperate But Not Serious and we all bounce around happily. Yay!

Hey, I just got a John's Children comp! I support your goal here unreservedly. But Suzy's goal is good too. And Ed's and...

Smashed, smashed, blocked, blocked... hell, I should google that. I've already been rewarded with:
http://www.geocities.com/jonnychan_nd6/jonalb.jpg

People gonna think yer a SPAZ!!! come on, that's right, uh-huh!

A man has died after a splinter of wood entered his eye during a mock jousting for Channel 4 series Time Team.

The fight re-enactor was taking part in an episode being filmed at Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire, last month.

On impact with his shield, a splinter from a balsa wood lance entered the eye-slit of the man's helmet and went into his eye socket, Channel 4 said.

The unnamed man, in his late 40s, died a week later in hospital. The Health and Safety Executive is investigating.

A Channel 4 spokeswoman said the man was part of a professional group which regularly re-enacts fights.

"We have been shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic accident," she said.

"The professional company of historical enactors has an excellent safety record and took all the appropriate and necessary precautions and it does sadly appear this was a tragic, freak, accident."

The popular history series follows archaeological digs and is presented by ex-Blackadder star Tony Robinson.

The jousting was filmed on 13 September as part of an episode focusing on Edward III's Round Table at Windsor Castle.

The Channel 4 spokeswoman said the re-enactment would no longer feature in the episode. It will be broadcast next year with a dedication to the man at the end of the programme.

However re-enactments are likely to remain part of the series, she added.

Versus Phil Daniels and Samantha Janus

yeah was just reading that. pretty unfortunate.

wierd, how can a splinter of balsa wood in the eye lead to death? wierder - that the report doesn't even suggest that there's anything wtf about this splinter/eye=death thing.