What else were they to do? Woodhenge and Strawhenge didn't exactly work out, did they!

I have a 2" high Stonehenge on my desk, oriented for the solstice sunrise, so I'm getting a kick etc.

Optical Aleutian: What else were they to do? Woodhenge and Strawhenge didn't exactly work out, did they!

Actually... Woodhenge worked out just fine. Recent discoveries suggest that Stonehenge was in fact part of a much more extensive site. There was a wooden henge a few miles away, close to the river, that was in use during the period Stonehenge took on its current form. The prevailing theory is that the wooden henge represented life and Stonehenge represented death (or the afterlife, if they had such a concept), and that rituals involved journeys from one to the other lasting from sunrise at Woodhenge to Stonehenge at sunset.

"Oooh! Buildin' a 'Enge are we?"

czetie: Woodhenge

I've been to Woodhenge. It's not nearly as impressive, but also not as crowded.

Unless you're a sheep.

Go Fast Turn Left: And oh how they danced, the little children of Stonehenge, Beneath the haunted moon, for fear that daybreak might come too soon...

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Image is hot, like a big bottom...

FARK mention of Stonehenge -------------> Spinal Tap

Done in one. All is well.

You should remember this was back in BC something something. Before the whole BC/AD switchover.

Can I raise a practical question at this point?

Yeah

Are we gonna do Stone'nge tomorrow night?

Help you push it along? Not far is it?

I can't wait for the Christans to get here!

What about Strawhenge?

The_EliteOne: What about Strawhenge?

You laugh, but the folks in the Wiltshire countryside stack their hay bales into giant towers.

The MLK memorial is going to be a big WTF to future archaeologists and geologists as well.

Ancient humans are weird. Gee Zog, lets drag these giant rocks 100 miles and put them riiiight here.

PhiloeBedoe: And to think, the Druish built the whole thing without ever once working on a Friday or tipping anyone more than eight percent.

Funny, they didn't look Druish.

at least now we know who they were and what they were doing

And the druids! Long robes, long beards, early transvestites, didn't get their shaving together. They built Stonehenge, one of the biggest henges in the world. No one's built a henge like that ever since. No one knows what the fark a "henge" is!

Don't worry, the British conquered it with a clever use of flags eventually.

I used to be a druid, then I killed the Lich King and retired.

/resto from 1-80. Started around the ZG patch.

Came for Aliens. Leaving edjumakcated.

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