This past week while camping in rural Vermont, Bossy was reading the Pulitzer Prize winning biography Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff.
According to the words typed and bound in this rectangular doorstop, the city of Alexandria Egypt, a generation before Christ, was responsible for many of the advanced scientific concepts attributed to later dates and places of origin.
Bossy would like to assert the theory, however, that all of these scientific principles can be found in the rural Vermont campground where the Bossy family spent the past ten days.
Let’s take a look at those things attributed to Ancient Egypt before and during Cleopatra’s reign:
- The circumference of the earth was first measured. Maybe so. But at Bossy’s campground, that measurement would be secondary to measuring the circumference of the fire pit to determine if it’s large enough for the pot of screaming lobsters.
- The sun’s location was mapped at the center of the solar system. The campers in Bossy’s campground also know the sun is in the center of it all. But luckily the campground was mapped near a small city with Thai restaurants for when the sun disappears from the center of it all.
- The workings of the brain were illuminated. Just like the workings of the brain were illuminated in Bossy’s campground.
- It was decided the moon has an effect on tides. And Bossy’s campground knows this, because the moon indicates when the water is calm enough for the Bossy family to steal a night swim in that dock area marked No swimming.
- The value of pi was determined. Sure. But Bossy could have told you all about 3.14, and how this is the number of times Bossy fills her red plastic cup with wine each night.
- The behavior of linear perspective was defined. Maybe so. But Bossy’s campground illustrates it in a very scientific way.
- The utility of a lightning conductor became known. Yeah, uh-huh. Bossy has only one word for ancient Egypt: Pop-up trailer in a thunderstorm, y’all.
Bush Babe (of Granite Glen) says
August 4, 2011 at 9:54 pmSo pi = pie-faced?
Can I ask how many wines were imbibed before this historical/hysterical post was written?
😉
BB
Gail K. says
August 5, 2011 at 9:18 amSee? If history/math/science were all like that in school, maybe I would have paid attention better.
joeinvegas says
August 5, 2011 at 11:41 amVery good comparisons.
Olivia says
August 5, 2011 at 3:21 pmAnd Cleopatra also lived with her /Husband/Unhusband/Husband/Unhusband – oh wait, that was Elizabeth Taylor.
Chrissy says
August 5, 2011 at 3:27 pmThat book is way high up on my list of things to read…
This is a perfect Bossy post!!!
keet says
August 6, 2011 at 2:40 amThanks for the trip! This was my third year of “Camping Vicariously Through Bossy”.
Did you get the boots?
Teeny Tina says
August 7, 2011 at 7:08 amI like this post. 🙂
The Woman Formerly Known As Beautiful says
August 7, 2011 at 1:38 pmI often like to juxtapose my life with the Fall of Sparta. It has all of the sharp objects, screaming and bloody effluvia, but non of the abs. (And I want your pop up trailer so fucking bad!)
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