where have all the anvils gone?

this whole thing started when i asked "what happened to all the anvils?"...
i mentioned that i wanted one so i can use it to drop on people's heads...
but where do i get one?
its one of those things that were commonly used back in those days...or is it really?
its portrayed in cartoons and movies and comics...
but what happened to them?
were they all collected and melted down when they were no longer needed?
or were they all sent to an anvil museum deep in the country side of some relatively unknown scandanavian town....?
or did they never exist at all?

and what happened to curtsies?
women used to curtsy all the time...
we've seen in it movies like pride and prejudice...shakespeare in love...yada yada...
but its like once we passed the 20th century the practice of the curtsy just disappeared...
sooner or later...people aren't going to even know what it is...
its already a fading memory for our generation...
eventually...the future generation will not even know of its existence...
it'll be a word in the dictionary that is never used and never looked up...
so just for D's sake...i'm goin to spread the word....
bring back the curtsy!!!!