I'm just about fed up with all this mythical Irish drinking problem.

It's un-called for and un-patriotic.

LOL good headline though!

The Irish will probably find some way to blame Atlantis' destruction on the British. Maybe U2 will write a song about it.

Ireland is also where good people go when they die.

"I am amazed no one has come up with this before, its incredible", he added.

Because Atlantis is a fairy tale, like Santa and Jesus.

I thought he established that it was ICELAND and not IRELAND:



I gain all of my geographical insight through wathing Disney movies.

Does this mean I can now honestly claim that I am a descendent of Atlantians? That will look so cool on a resume, and will totally throw of the Equal Opportunity hiring laws.

Now that is COOL.

Before the Irish discovered drinking they had a very advanced civilization - centuries ahead of the rest of the world. Unfortunately, 30 minutes after the first Irish scientists consumed liquor, they started their decent into the stone age.

//from a family guy episode

I'm assuming Cancer is cured...

The academic said: Just like Atlantis, Ireland is 300 miles long, 200 miles wide, and widest over the middle.

They both feature a central plain that is open to the sea, but fringed by mountains. No other island on earth even comes close to this description.

Thats it.... thats all you've got. And you wrote a book. Wow.

Apparently these scientists watch Family Guy.

Two words: continental drift.

Several more words: Everyone knows the Atlantis myth is a mythologising of the destruction of the Minoan civilisation by catastrophic vulcanism (which also cause the collapse of the Bosphorus land bridge, which cause the Flood memorialised in The Bible (and every other middle eastern ancient myth) and created the Black Sea as we know it. What fools still believe this Atlantis bullshiat?

Nonsense. Everybody knows we just changed our name to "America" and kept on keeping on.

Just as long as they don't discover it's actually New Jersey. (the smell here is terrible)

Everyone knows that Atlantis is in the Pegasus galaxy...

Ulkesh beat me to it.

Apparently these scientists watch Family Guy.

my exact first thought when I read the story

I was waiting for the Stargate reference....watching the new episode now, as a matter of fact.

God gave the Irish alcohol so they wouldn't conquer the world.

Everyone knows Atlantis flew away to the pegasus galaxy millions of years ago.

Fear the wraith!

WafflesAreGreat, sorry for being late, i had to wait for the commercial to read fark =P

Because Atlantis is a fairy tale, like Santa and Jesus

and Ireland.


/love my heritage

God gave the Irish alcohol so they wouldn't conquer the world.

Speaking of which, you've got to feel sorry for those of Irish and German descent. They're always too drunk to follow orders.

Speaking of Stargate Atlantis, I wish they'd just dump the 'natives' (Ethosians?) off-world or in the ocean; they annoy the fark out of me.

Hey, I'm watching a show about...Oh Fark, so are the rest of ya!

Oh well, Friday night and the wife's passed out so it's boobies time (NSFW)!

Personally, that's the best headline ever... well done!

Eddie_Dean_NY

Does this mean I can now honestly claim that I am a descendent of Atlantians?

Everyone alive today is the descendant of everyone alive approximately 1600 or more years ago who has any descendants alive today.

If you have any relatively recent ancestors from a particular broad geographic region - say, "Europe", "Subsaharan Africa", or "the Orient", you are the descendant of everyone from that region who was alive about 800 or more years ago and who has any descendants alive today.

That's why, for example, any white guy who invests the time and effort into researching his family eventually finds that he's descended from Charlemagne. Not because Charlemagne was particularly prolific. Rather, because every white guy is descended from every European from Charlemagne's time who has any descendants alive today at all.

yay! it looks like I'm getting my wish

HEY! I submitted the same link earlier... !!!!

You think that's bad, what about the time Australia got drunk and woke up in the North Atlantic?

gilmoure, you are my hero.

"Ancient archeological evidence indicates that Ireland was a much different place before the discovery of alcohol. Most experts believe it was something like this."

"It's a Fargate dork face, it GOES FAR, get it? It has nothing to do with that movie or the syndicated series based on the movie, which I haven't even seen."

"But it was a good movie"

"Yes, it was very nice."

/Emery and Oglethorp... were not invited.

Any critical evaluation of this so-called "Atlantis question" well tell you right off that NO, Ireland is not Atlantis, and NO, there's no mysterious "sunken continent" that defies all the rules of plate techtonics and general common sense. All this coral and rubble under the Caribbean and is just that -- coral and rubble. Sorry, that's not Atlantis.

Californians have known for years that the survivors of Mu, the larger Atlantean civilization, have lived in the tunnels and caverns under our Mt. Shasta for years. If science could just direct itself to the obvious, they'd have this solved by now. And since Mt. Shasta is just a few miles off from Bigfoot territory, they could probably kill two birds with one stone.

The only hazard would be stepping into an intruder trap in some rural mountain pot orchard, since marijuana is mysteriously richer and stronger in areas of increased Atlantis/Bigfoot/alien sightings.

Atlanta was a city, landlocked, hundreds of miles from the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean. Yet so desperate the city's desire for tourism that moved offshore to become an island and a bigger Delta hub. Until the city overdeveloped and it started to sink. Knowing their fate the quality people ran away. Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca Cola, the magician and the other so called gods of our legends, though gods they were - and also Jane Fonda was there. The others chose to remain behind on their porches with their rifles, and one day evolve into mermaids, and sing and dance and ring in the new.

/Donovan

I think I saw something on the History channel once that said there was one theory suggestion Atlantis may have in fact been Brazil. I really don't remember how they backed that one up.

"The Man from Atlantis starring Patrick Duffy"

I think I saw that, but maybe it was all just a dream.

Cosmic_Music

Everyone knows the Atlantis myth is a mythologising of the destruction of the Minoan civilisation by catastrophic vulcanism (which also cause the collapse of the Bosphorus land bridge, which cause the Flood memorialised in The Bible (and every other middle eastern ancient myth) and created the Black Sea as we know it.

In reality, and I speak from the testimony of expert witnesses, the destruction of the Minoan civilization, circa 1700 B.C., predates the Black Sea catastrophe/thingie by three to five thousand years. However, it does coincide quite closely with the whatchamacallit wherein the Jews fled Egypt, and the pursuing armies of Pharoah (Yul Brynner) were caught in the backwash and drownded. (Not entirely making this up: I heard it in a college class from a real, live professor of Greek History.)

Of course, as anyone can learn on the Internet, the REAL Atlantis is a water-themed resort in the Bahamas, just a tad north of the famous "Bimini Road."

/Submitted the same link earlier, but with a much worse headline.

I am of Irish descent, and I'm proud of it, but there's just way too much excitement over it. It's a big mix of cultures. There were stone age people, then celts, then vikings, then normans. What you have left is a bunch of very tall pale people who, have a talent of being angry/passionate. Some people try to say the Celts were the original israelites. They just forgot.

And also, while I'm ranting about people who get over fired up about their background, Celtic mythology is really interesting, but I think it's gay to make a religion out of something that people thousands of years ago believed in. It's even worse to not even have all of the information about what those people believed in.

Irish people are great, I like to consider myself in good company. But relax. The Irish are far from utopia.

It's probably true; the people of Atlantis (the Irish) probably lost it when they all got drunk and forgot where they left it.

bkennedy

I'm a very short black Irishman. Or at least that's what my parents say.

/confused
//and kidding

I'm of Irish and Russian descent, If that doesn't make me prone to alcoholism I don't know what does.

dude, where's my island?