Indiana Matt Damon and Easter Island Bodies

Easter Island.

Easter Island.

Easter Island.

Easter Island (in the corner, with the shades).

Easter Island is mysterious and, apparently, a staple of merchandise for children.

Apparently, the reason behind the name is that the first European to bump into the island happened to do it on Easter Sunday. Maybe it's because I've fantasized about owning an island and all of the cool things I would hypothetically name it, but it's kind of disappointing that this guy's imagination didn't extend beyond his calendar. Especially for an island like Easter Island, which could have easily been named "Giant Head Island," or any number of awesome things. Good thing he didn't discover America, although I guess Halloween Land would be kind of cool to pledge allegiance to.

So you notice all the pictures I linked to? How they were all just heads? Yeah, those things have bodies. Twist. And there are 887 of them. Who does that?

The reason I bring this up is because at work the other day, as me and the boys were pruning some shrubs, we were talking about how the fourth Indiana Jones movie was a horrendous mistake and what we would have done to make a better movie (and if any of us had been blessed with any sort of scientific capacity, I'm sure we would have talked just as passionately about alternate fuel sources or something, but we can only do the best with what we have and make the world better one small thing at a time).

After deciding that Harrison Ford was too old and should only function as a mentor figure for Matt Damon, who would be the new main character, we spent an hour deciding what artifact Indy would go for. We threw around Excalibur (complete with a chase scene through Parisian catacombs), Shangri-la, the pyramids, the floating gardens Babylon, until someone threw out Easter Island and Mike said that maybe they could figure out why the heads have bodies. The way I see it, if anyone could figure out why so much effort went into making the Easter Island monoliths, it would be the combined archeological efforts of Harrison Ford and Matt Damon.