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urbangriller
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I've just finished reading this thesis, a realy good read, this guy talks about how cooking (and of course the first form of cooking was BBQ!) provided our ancestors with a readily digestable food supply and that led to bigger brains and for most smarter thinking.

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you read a lot of books Chris! how big is your library?

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the dane wrote:you read a lot of books Chris! how big is your library?

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I,m surprised he can read :shock:
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:)

it's the rebuttal I always use on vegetarians " if man had not taken to a high protein diet he'd have spent all his time foraging or farming and never had time to think."

Best response I've ever had was " Men think?"

(I do think she was joking :) )

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I thought the discovery of beer made us human. :lol:
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gnol wrote:I thought the discovery of beer made us human. :lol:
Beer makes some people in-human! :D
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the dane wrote:you read a lot of books Chris! how big is your library?
Lost count a while back.....New shelves are happening so everything moving-----a chance to re-order and catalogue the last year or two! (and this is maybe a third of the library) 8)

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Any standouts you'd recommend?
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Chris, The next time you say "Yeh Ive read that" I will never doubt you again :shock:
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Next time my wife has a go at me about hoarding books and collecting recipes, I'm showing her these photos.

Thanks Chris, you're a lifesaver.
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:)

Scary thing is in the current jumble you probably know where everything is - get them up on shelves and you'll be hunting :)

My wife and I gave up counting our books years ago, it's easier to express in metres. We had to do that last year when we moved - 85 metres of books, although no where near as many on the single subject Chris has.

Six months into moving they are all back on shelves and sort of re-indexed but finding a specific one can be a challenge, working on it :)

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Meters! ..... I like that! I did some rough math in my head and it seems roughly 74m is what I'm looking at! :shock:

Got heaps stacked on the floor to change out the bookcases, one side first, then the other...then yes, restacking into catagories is going to be a beach! :?

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:)

It is a bit sobering when you do it by length :)

One of my sisters is a librarian she's been threatening for a while to come Dewey Decimal my "library" as she puts it :)

My excuse is that every hobby needs reference material, getting thin these days with the Net but a book is still a book :)

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