Pottery found at the site includes the remains of 60 cm tall storage jars and delicate 5 cm high burnished drinking beakers manufactured in northern French style.
I can see Walt, as the last act of his stygian journey, drinking a beaker of it or lowering himself as penance into a vat of hydrochloric acid, a molten death like that of Arnold's cyborg in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Each soil core was placed, inverted, into an 11 cm tall white plastic beaker (drinking cups; manufactured by Mono Containers Ltd ,ref. PV11, and supplied by Sarrett Office Supplies Ltd ,Herts, UK) previously drilled with four 3 mm diameter drainage holes and containing 50 mL of coarse sand.
The suggestion hast been made that a decorative note be struck in their manufacture... Models for these regenerated ash cans may be drawn from Minoan drinking cups, Norse beakers, Gothic chalices or Irish goblets... View Article By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Robin Wright.
"Thanks for the link to my expensive academic book," writes a thankfully lucid Ian Copestake, who I initially thought might be sitting at his computer wearing one of those hat-and-straw drinking contraptions, a big beaker of artisan gin and tonic in one holster, a 1.5l bottle of supermarket gin in the other.
Varied grave goods such as copper implements, personal ornaments, and decorated vessels for drinking and feasting (called bell beakers from their distinctive shape) indicate a stratified tribal society at Los Millares with marked inequality of riches and access to the good things in life.
Among the vessels, well represented are the drinking vessels (34%) in particular beakers (32%), followed by bowls (24%), lamps (22%), and bottles/jars (14%).
The first is that someone will read the column, not know it's meant as satire (despite the accompanying photo of me drinking foamy green stuff from a beaker through a Krazy Straw), and reply in the comments section of some blog with a quantity of vitriol inversely proportional to grammatical accuracy.
Lab work: I drink my lemonade in a beaker.
The two 600ml beakers are the most robust drinking vessels I have ever come across – they would survive a canyon drop, their nutrients intact.
