• Re: Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jun 21 20:20:32 2024
    In article <v54j7b$3a4lo$[email protected]>,
    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
    Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era
    https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2024/06/21

    Nope, the caveman era was way before 2,000 BCE.

    Except, we still have people living in caves, millions in China and
    other places apparently.

    Lynn

    Interesting coincidence as Stonehenge was just in the news.
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  • From Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jun 21 21:29:23 2024
    On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> 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.

    --
    Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 22 02:55:02 2024
    In article <v55e1q$3ikgt$[email protected]>,
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/21/2024 5:29 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
    On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> 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.

    Yes, the neo-Druid ceremonies get in the news every year.

    But this year, a couple of anti-oil activists vandalized the
    monument the day before.

    That makes no sense. It's solar-powered after all.
    --scott

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Jun 21 23:09:25 2024
    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:29:23 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> 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.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to The Horny Goat on Sat Jun 22 15:13:47 2024
    The Horny Goat <[email protected]> writes:
    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:29:23 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber ><[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> 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.

    It was a cornstarch based compound that easily washed off. Not that
    I'm defending it, however.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to Scott Dorsey on Sat Jun 22 09:53:00 2024
    On 22 Jun 2024 02:55:02 -0000, [email protected] (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

    In article <v55e1q$3ikgt$[email protected]>,
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/21/2024 5:29 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
    On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> 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.

    Yes, the neo-Druid ceremonies get in the news every year.

    But this year, a couple of anti-oil activists vandalized the
    monument the day before.

    That makes no sense. It's solar-powered after all.

    Wing-nuts are ... wing-nuts. There is no "sense".
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    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jun 22 10:00:16 2024
    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 14:10:35 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Alley Oop: Bodacious Caveman Era
    https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2024/06/21

    Nope, the caveman era was way before 2,000 BCE.

    Alternative responses:

    If the Bodacious Caveman Era refers to the Neolithic, then then 2,000
    Bodacious Caveman Era would be 8,000 "BCE".

    or

    This is a pun on "BCE" as "Before Common Era", which most of us know
    as "BC".

    Except, we still have people living in caves, millions in China and
    other places apparently.

    One solution to global warming is for /all/ of us to live underground.
    See the film /Things to Come/ for details. So, in the future, we may
    /all/ be living in caves. Except the unfortunate/dedicated few who
    live topside to grow food, of course.
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    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 23 19:01:31 2024
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6/22/2024 5:03 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    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.

    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.

    Originally they built Lardhenge, but it didn't last very long. Stonehenge
    was the result of an engineering change order.
    --scott

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Cryptoengineer on Sun Jun 23 21:18:21 2024
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> 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
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> 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.

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  • From The Horny Goat@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 6 13:58:27 2024
    On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 15:13:47 GMT, [email protected] (Scott Lurndal)
    wrote:

    The Horny Goat <[email protected]> writes:
    On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:29:23 -0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber >><[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2024-06-21, Ted Nolan <tednolan> <[email protected]> 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.

    It was a cornstarch based compound that easily washed off. Not that
    I'm defending it, however.

    My daughter has been to Stonehenge and says it's cordoned off and that
    in most situations, you get no closer than 20 yards or so to
    Stonehenge - meaning someone either slipped the cordon or it had blown
    down that morning.

    She also said she was told security was definitely tighter on the
    weeks of the summer and winter solstice when crowds are much bigger
    than random days between (i.e. when she was there) She said she had to
    catch a train from London, a bus from the nearest town then walk a
    mile or so to the site.

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