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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:36:55 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: <v59q07$f83d$1@dont-email.me> References: <v54j7b$3a4lo$2@dont-email.me> <ldm5kgFfa4qU1@mid.individual.net> <slrnv7bs5j.99g.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <9iqc7jl6q89hlivhlf4vasj374rqnis3oh@4ax.com> <v574ts$3sfut$1@dont-email.me> <v57e7j$3u815$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:36:55 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ac7db3f82c4a8e9062329dd535cf23f8"; logging-data="499821"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/eKd5aDVDqmEsVJiB++2CPJ9fzEnnESR8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:+Vp9tcyJgfEdnTzM58Ck1lArmG0= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <v57e7j$3u815$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 3180 On 6/22/2024 5:03 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 6/22/2024 1:25 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote: >> On 6/22/2024 2:09 AM, The Horny Goat wrote: >>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:29:23 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber >>> <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era >>>>>> https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2024/06/21 >>>>> >>>>> Interesting coincidence as Stonehenge was just in the news. >>>> >>>> Hardly a coincidence. Every summer solstice, Stonehenge is in the >>>> news. >>> >>> True though most years orange paint isn't part of Stonehenge at summer >>> solstice. >> >> The news claimed it was orange cornstarch, and the vandals thought >> it would just wash off at the next rainstorm. They apparently did >> not want to cause permanent damage. >> >> Conservators though differently, and removed the powder within >> hours. >> >> Apparently, The stones bear rare and endangered lichens, and it >> was thought that *wet* cornstarch would be bad for them. >> >> pt > > When we lived in London in 1973, my brothers and I climbed all over the > Stonehenge rocks one weekend. We were just about the only people there. > The really amazing thing was the thousands of names cut into them from > hundreds of years. We did not add our names. Interesting! My family lived just outside London 1968-1970. (I continued to be educated in England up through 1978). In 1968 I visited Stonehenge for the first time, and at that time you could walk right up to the rocks. You can't anymore (except on special occasions, such as Midsummer dawn). I guess they were blocked off sometime after 1973. There's a lot of discussion of how best to preserve the site, including turning a major nearby road into a tunnel, and building a duplicate for tourists some distance away, similar to the Lascaux caves. pt