Alternate hypotheses

Here's something that made me smile.Just saw that they found a couple of buried skeletons in Italy which are hugging each other. All the archaeologists and anthropologists are going crazy thinking up romantic theories. The fact that this was 25 miles away from Verona, of the Romeo and Juliet fame, does not help. I am thinking of possibilities also.

1. They died during a wrestling match.
2. As this is from the neolithic era, chances are they weren't too fussy about burials and just threw all their skeletons together.
3. Gruesome but possible-One was throttling the other.
4. Some undertaker's idea of a joke.

The oh-so-romantic theory might be the plausible one, but how are you going to prove that the above didn't happen? One can always count on me to destroy the romance , can't one?

P.S:You can check out the story here if you choose

Dream ride

Ever get the feeling that things aren't real and you must be in a dream? My sister did, while watching 'Main Prem ki deewani hoon' and justifiably, but this isn't about that. They should have a scientific term for that feeling. Like they do for deja vu. Almost everyone I know has had that dream like feeling sometime or the other. Today it was while riding on the bus. I usually sit at the back of the bus because thats where the weirdos are. Its like sedimentation. All the freaks collect at the back.Granted, that makes me a potential freak myself, but its usually worth it. Like it was today.If you are kicking and screaming, wondering when I will come to the point, you may as well give up, because this is going to be one big ramble.

There were these two people sitting at the back of the bus, talking. My attention turned toward the conversation when the fiftyish looking dude asked the girl where she had gone to school. She replied with the name of some obscure town, and then he asked her how old she was. Upto this point, I had taken it for granted that they knew each other from before and they were chatting. But these questions obviously conveyed the opposite. The girl replied "Twenty three". Then the guy named a woman-Shannon something and asked the girl whether she knew her. Apparently this Shannon who is twenty five is married to this guy and went to the same school as the girl. The girl said she didn't know Shannon.So far, so normal except for the huge age diff. Then the guy asked her if she knew Shannon's boyfriend who went to the same school. Not ex. Current boyfriend. The girl said "Her boyfriend? Thats weird." The guy said "Yes, and she lives in that town still." The girl told him Shannon must be taking him for a ride. Brilliant conclusion, I thought. The guy then went on to give her the, ahem-minute details of their marriage. Now this girl is a stranger. And there is a bus full of people, potentially listening.The girl finally said "Thats TMI, man! I dont want to know." I am acronym-challenged, so it took me a while to figure out that TMI stood for Too Much Information. Then this other guy who was sitting near them said the marriage wasn't a real marriage. Another brilliant deduction. The girl said they should get the marriage annulled. The first guy then said that they couldn't do that because they weren't allowed to by religion. Then the girl said "Ok, here's my stop. I have to get off. Bye, guys".

Ok, let me see if I got this right. Three complete strangers. In a bus. Discussing all and sundry. No one else in the whole bus seems to think this is unusual.
Now,you would think I have a point with the whole story, but I don't have any. Nor a moral. Apologies. Am still wondering if it was a dream.

P.S: A friend just pointed out that it sounds like my sister loved the crappy movie. That is not, repeat NOT the case. She felt that the extent of crappiness could not be possible in reality.