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May 7, 2008
Mystery of Stonehenge Solved [Dan Collins]
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Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 7:31 pm #
Yay! Cause I’ve been wondering.
Comment by McGehee on 5/7 @ 7:39 pm #
I want to know who built Cadillac-henge.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 7:41 pm #
Good point. We should have more henges I think.
Comment by McGehee on 5/7 @ 7:42 pm #
And the hengemen to build them.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 7:51 pm #
Related, kind of. Or not really. On NPR today they had this one guy that intoned that “food has almost a mythic importance to Chinese culture.” Do they ever listen to themselves before they run these things?
Comment by Jim in KC on 5/7 @ 8:24 pm #
Stanley Marsh, McGehee, although I think it’s actually called Cadillac Ranch. And then there’s Carhenge, of course, built by Jim Reinders.
Americans and their cars. Goofy love story, indeed.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/7 @ 8:27 pm #
hf, maybe he meant that for many generations food was a kind of collective memory of the ancients handed down from generation to generation.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 8:34 pm #
But that’s same for everybody. His actual point was that we should be understanding about Chinese protectionism cause they’re all special and mythic about food.
Comment by Mcgruder on 5/7 @ 8:35 pm #
Happyfeet:
recall that henges are a white male patriarchial construct.
seriously, i read it on Amanda Marcotte’s blog.
Comment by McGehee on 5/7 @ 8:37 pm #
<smacks forehead>
You’re right, Jim. Maybe I was thinking of Subaru-henge. I always get those two automakers mixed up.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 8:38 pm #
My point was all oblique I know but it’s mostly that in the end, these days anyway, all this stuff is just fodder. Stonehenge, chow mein, Easter Island, coelacanth fossils, the Bering Land Bridge, whatever. Everybody’s got an agenda, I tell ya.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 8:39 pm #
See? There you go. Thanks, Mcgruder.
Comment by Dan Collins on 5/7 @ 8:42 pm #
No, hf, what I mean is that in China, for generations, food was a kind of rumor, mostly.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 8:48 pm #
Ahh. That is wise.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/7 @ 8:49 pm #
A spoon does not know the taste of soup.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 5/7 @ 10:08 pm #
I recall reading that Stonehenge, until the 19th century, had suffered continual vandalism since the days of the Romans, who made (half-hearted, perhaps) attempts to destroy it.
In other words, I’m not at all offended.
Comment by B Moe on 5/7 @ 10:16 pm #
Stonehenge, until the 19th century,had suffered continual vandalism since the days of the Romans/i
But it was never trod upon by dwarves.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 5/7 @ 10:17 pm #
I’m not offended by the restoration attempts, I should say.
Comment by ccs on 5/8 @ 5:32 am #
270 BC: Philitas of Cos, poet and critic reportedly wasted away and died of insomnia while brooding about the Liar paradox.
and here I thought it was spelled with a K
Comment by Jim in KC on 5/8 @ 5:43 am #
That one’s in Tokyo, I think.
You can usually most reliably tell ‘em apart by the bumper stickers, I find. Any variation of “You can’t hug with nuclear arms” or “Buck Fush” is going to tip it towards the “Subaru” side.
Comment by McGehee on 5/8 @ 9:23 am #
They tell me Subaru drivers also aren’t as good at parallel parking. Not sure just what to make of that.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 5/8 @ 10:31 am #
When are the compu-henge guys going to restore that keyboard that automaticall type what you think? I am just so sick of having to do it myself. Maybe “Changey-truthy” guy will use some of our confiscated money for this project when he becomes president.
Jeebus! Will somebody PLEASE come over here and cut my keyboard wire? I just can’t make myself stop…
Comment by McGehee on 5/8 @ 1:22 pm #
If I ever open a retail store for computers and the things that
breakaccessorize them, I’m going to call it Compuhenge.Pingback by The Real Victims of the Duke Lacrosse Hoax [Dan Collins] on 5/8 @ 2:27 pm #
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