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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:07:56 -0400
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Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
> 
> they were blocked off in 1977.   I visited in 1976, and later in 1984.

I too visited in 76.  I didn't touch them but they were accessible.  I 
was about a week pre-solstice, no celebrations were yet taking place.

William Hyde
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