Entry #1599

Trivia (5 Biomes points): What was this thing used for? I found it out in a salt marsh last year when Mary and I visited the Cape Cod National Seashore. It's about four feet long, weighs a lot since I couldn't budge it, and dates back to the early 1700's.

Timewaster of the Week: Dress up Floppie the Clown.

Springsteen and Obama are wrong for America, paid for by citizens for Hillary Clinton and Celine Dion.

Stuff You Should Know: Collective nouns for groups of various animals.

George Lakoff responds to the conservative idiots who claim that liberals hate America.

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." -- Aristotle, explaining why I chose to go into marine biology.

Comments

[pablo]

Colonial flower press?

[Queen]

might it have been used for rolling over seeds to push them into the ground at planting time? sort of a seed rolling pin?

[Ken]

It looks like a building pier. Isn't this a bit refined-looking for early 17th century?

[jcwinnie]

"Which explains why I chose to go into marine biology"

But not why you write this blog

[Arjay]

I think there were two of them, and they were restricting the size of wagons that could pass along a track (it looks like a similar post from 1700s in the stamping grounds of the Godolphin Arabian in UK)

[Dana]

floppie the clown...funny The wife and I went to see Blue Man Group the other day...it was great cant wait to go again..and floppie was a part of the show