So i just got back from my very first dig with my uni and these were some notable moments:
- The lecturer gave the introduction briefing while drinking a beer
- “We have two rules in archaeology, the first is dON’T DIE”
- “Whoever has the best selfie with Gary the Goat at the end of each week gets a free chocolate bar”
- Lab Supervisor: “I don’t do as much licking these days”
- *quietly singing macklemore’s thrift shop at 10pm on the campsite*
- Supervisor, suggestively: “no one will ever touch that dirt the same way you have. You have a very intimate relationship with that dirt”
- Lecturer: “Can we name the trenches after teenage mutant ninja turtles?”
- Student to Lecturer: “Do you need a hand?”
Lecturer to Student: “No, I need a brain” - Supervisor: “Trench D will now be known as the Shit Pit”
- Particular student working the Shit Pit is known as the ‘Poo Princess’
- Archaeologist pick up lines, eg. “Are you a munsell chart? Because I wanna do you outside”
- Zinc warpaint
- Trench games
- “Anyone caught stealing pencils will be fed to Gary the Goat!”
- “Wanna come see my hole?”
- A whole list of people banned from writing in lowercase because the supervisor can’t read their writing (I’m on that list)
- #scrotum tree
- Replacing “CLEAR UP YOUR LOOSE” with “BRING OUT YER DEAD!” followed by banging shovels together
- Forming a cult
- “Listen to your Cult Mother! You’re being an isosceles!”
- Playing Horrible Histories and Disney songs while scrubbing finds
- Lab Supervisor: “Wait, let the Trench Demons get their equipment”
- Lecturer in Week 3: “Why aren’t (the trenches) named after teletubbies?”
- Student 1 (brushing glass): “Hey, glass me”
Student 2 (brushing bone): “Hey, bone me” - “Brush me like one of your french shells”
- One of the supervisors is named ‘Trench Daddy’ in the group chat
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