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Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... Posted Feb 13, 2011
Exposing the passage/writings to heat/naked flame...
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MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. Posted Feb 13, 2011
*Aside - If Phoenicians were fighting, were the battles known as Phoney Wars? /Aside*
MMF
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 13, 2011
Nope.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 13, 2011
I can't klaxon bad punning. More's the pity. 
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Feb 13, 2011
one of the ways to dehydrate something is to bury it in salt, as salt extracts the moisture, thats why salting meat is a good way of preserving it, this has been done for millenia
was this burried in salt??
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 13, 2011
Nope.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 13, 2011
Does 'score' here mean Engrave?
A 'Minor Phoenician' Something named after same?
Dehydrate. Was this burial in sand, or was 'it' found, buried in sand?
Provoke great anger. Was this a forgery that was discovered to be so at a much later date?
Hmm!
GT
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Feb 13, 2011
carthage was a phonecian city, after its fall rome destroyed the city, not leaving 2 stones standing and then salted the ground so nothing would grow there, eradicating carthage for all time
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 13, 2011
"Carthage" 
-5
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 13, 2011
Does score mean engrave - no
Was this burial in sand - nope
Was this burial in sand - no.
Was this a forgery - no, this would have stood out.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 13, 2011
"crusades" -5.
You just want to beat HD's -25 from my last QI don't you?
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Rod Posted Feb 13, 2011
>>...eradicating carthage for all time<< Except for some scraps of writing by a minor official with religious ideas, which this 'ere someone 'dehydrated'.
That is, that this someone distilled it for its essence.
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Feb 13, 2011
Oh - you're killing me! 
"pope" -5
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Feb 13, 2011
Anything to do with the Phoenicians being great Mariners?
It is said that is was the Phoenicians were the first to circumnavigate the African Continent.
GT
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toybox Posted Feb 13, 2011
Some bible translator / commentator misinterpreted something on a phoenician character? Like, the character's name meant something like 'full of water' and the monk misunderstood it as 'the dry one'?
More generally, was the victim a real living person at the time of the dehydration (whatever that one is)?
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- 21: Mr. Dreadful - But really I'm not actually your friend, but I am... (Feb 13, 2011)
- 22: MMF - Keeper of Mustelids, with added P.M.A., is now in a relationship. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 23: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 24: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 25: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 13, 2011)
- 26: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 27: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Feb 13, 2011)
- 28: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 13, 2011)
- 29: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 13, 2011)
- 30: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 31: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 32: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 13, 2011)
- 33: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 13, 2011)
- 34: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 35: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 13, 2011)
- 36: Taff Agent of kaos (Feb 13, 2011)
- 37: Rod (Feb 13, 2011)
- 38: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Feb 13, 2011)
- 39: gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA (Feb 13, 2011)
- 40: toybox (Feb 13, 2011)
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