Re: Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era

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:
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On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
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Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era
    https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2024/06/21

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Interesting coincidence as Stonehenge was just in the news.

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Hardly a coincidence.  Every summer solstice, Stonehenge is in the
news.

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True though most years orange paint isn't part of Stonehenge at summer
solstice.

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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.
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Conservators though differently, and removed the powder within
hours.
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Apparently, The stones bear rare and endangered lichens, and it
was thought that *wet* cornstarch would be bad for them.
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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