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Thread #110424   Message #2456642
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
03-Oct-08 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
You know, I don't think he has a single Northern English Australian repatriates' song in his repertoire, or North-Eastern forklifter songs, or Australian anthropology majors' songs...

Anyway, before Wav bangs on about his single degree and tech. certificates (which aren't that imposing an achievement anyway), here is a story my dad told me the other day.
Several years ago, he and mum went to a lecture by one of Israel's most prominent archaeologists, a man who had had over 40 years' experience. In the middle of his talk about one of the digs, he looked at the audience and stopped. "Why am I bothering, this man is the one to tell you about it." Who was the man? A simple kibbutz member, with no formal education beyond highschool, yet he was the expert on that site, living most of his life around it and carrying out most of the work and research!!!