That's nothing!FBM wrote:Yeah, whose bright idea was it to put a walking path right through the thing?
Down the road a bit from me lies one of Britain's largest and most significant stone circles.
Bastards put a village in it!


That's nothing!FBM wrote:Yeah, whose bright idea was it to put a walking path right through the thing?
Wtf kinda boneheads???????Callan wrote:That's nothing!FBM wrote:Yeah, whose bright idea was it to put a walking path right through the thing?
Down the road a bit from me lies one of Britain's largest and most significant stone circles.
Bastards put a village in it!
They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions?Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
Don't ask me. I am just passing on the story. However now you mention it, it is rather like sitting on the proverbial branch and sawing on the tree trunk side..Gawdzilla Sama wrote:They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions?Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
I was hoping for video, and interviews with the survivor, if there was one.Rum wrote:Don't ask me. I am just passing on the story. However now you mention it, it is rather like sitting on the proverbial branch and sawing on the tree trunk side..Gawdzilla Sama wrote:They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions?Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
Pen hasn't been on for ages.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:I was hoping for video, and interviews with the survivor, if there was one.Rum wrote:Don't ask me. I am just passing on the story. However now you mention it, it is rather like sitting on the proverbial branch and sawing on the tree trunk side..Gawdzilla Sama wrote:They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions?Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
"Survivor" status is always "for the time."Thinking Aloud wrote:Pen hasn't been on for ages.
Castlerigg is another circle in the Lake District (other side of the M6).Svartalf wrote:I thought Long Meg and her daughters were a series of mounds and that the big circle was Castlerigg? have I been misled for 25 years?
Took the kids to one of these in Cornwall last summer, and Offspring #1, on a-spying it through the cloud on the moor, yelled, "A dolmen! A real live dolmen!!" This is what happens when you let them read too much Asterix and Obelix.Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm partial to a game of quoits, myself...
My French teacher at High School used to sometimes read an Asterix book to the class (in French, obviously). It was the only thing in 4 years of school French lessons that didn't infuriate me.Thinking Aloud wrote:Took the kids to one of these in Cornwall last summer, and Offspring #1, on a-spying it through the cloud on the moor, yelled, "A dolmen! A real live dolmen!!" This is what happens when you let them read too much Asterix and Obelix.Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm partial to a game of quoits, myself...
Which reminds me that when I was there, there were some decidedly aged-hippy types leaning themselves hard against the stones and looking orgasmic.Callan wrote:That's nothing!FBM wrote:Yeah, whose bright idea was it to put a walking path right through the thing?
Down the road a bit from me lies one of Britain's largest and most significant stone circles.
Bastards put a village in it!
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