Erzherzog Johann | 12 Feb 2021 11:04 p.m. PST |
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Oddball | 13 Feb 2021 7:51 a.m. PST |
So the English stole that too, huh? OK, sorry, I couldn't resist. Reminds me of the tour guide in Venice a few years ago talking about how Napoleon stole the stuff from Venice that THEY had stolen from Constantinople. Seems a great many of these cultural icons have moved around from owner to owner in the course of history. Everyone wants to claim ownership of this stuff, but it is like the line from "Animal House" when the man is cleaning out the frat house, Hoover – "They even took the stuff we didn't steal". |
Dagwood | 13 Feb 2021 8:26 a.m. PST |
The English weren't around at the time. They didn't steal it until much later ! |
robert piepenbrink | 13 Feb 2021 12:22 p.m. PST |
Why "stolen?" Does no one else remember the old H. Beam Piper novel in which the Texans have left for another planet--but have taken the Alamo with them? ("Six Gun Planet," you 21st Century heathens.) |
Major Bloodnok | 13 Feb 2021 3:27 p.m. PST |
Funny, it read to me that it was the Welsh who brought to Henge to England. They nicked it from themselves? |
robert piepenbrink | 13 Feb 2021 4:43 p.m. PST |
Hush, Major. I'm pretty sure there's an English Welsh joke in there somewhere. Watch Zulu or The Englishman who went up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain until you're feeling better. |
Martin Rapier | 14 Feb 2021 2:06 a.m. PST |
"The English weren't around at the time" Indeed. England didn't exist until about 4000 years later. It is a very cool story though. |
Major Bloodnok | 14 Feb 2021 4:08 a.m. PST |
You know why the henge got moved? Denceangli United lost to the Durotriges Wanderers, in the FA (Flint Age) "Cup" Thus the "Cup", Stonehenge, was moved to Wiltshire, and the Durootriges Wanders remained undefeated until they were knocked out in the semi-finals by Roman Villa. |
blank frank | 14 Feb 2021 6:15 a.m. PST |
So this de-bunks the Merlin theory that he took an army to Ireland to steal them. |
Bobgnar | 14 Feb 2021 9:31 a.m. PST |
In any event, if some old guys took the stones with them when they invaded what is now England, that is not stealing, it is more like transplanting. |
jhancock | 14 Feb 2021 5:53 p.m. PST |
That would take some big stones to steal! |
Trajanus | 16 Feb 2021 8:49 a.m. PST |
I'm still trying to figure out how they got them into the back of the Transit van! |
Erzherzog Johann | 20 Feb 2021 12:09 a.m. PST |
Bobgnar: "it is more like transplanting" It seems they were as good at transplanting as I am, judging from the state of my garden . . . Cheers, John ps. I didn't read it as a theft, just a relocation for reasons unknown, other than that the proto-Welsh perhaps thought the proto-English needed a bit of culture. The more things change, the more they stay the same? "-) |
AshlandPhil | 24 Feb 2021 6:05 p.m. PST |
Flanders and Swann 'Where did you get those stones? They're not from round here, I can tell. From Wales? Yes, I know where it is, I've been abroad' YouTube link |