Yes. That is the Mystery Machine parked in front of
Stonehenge. Your argument is invalid.
I received a firm exhortation (nearly a threat) to write more about my time in UK-Landia. So, I take you back to the same day with the slugs, but a little later on. I had the wonderful opportunity to skip and dance and pretend I was a merry druid among the massive, mysterious stones of Stonehenge, right at Sunset. (It was pretty much the greatest thing ever:)
I tried to be a good girl and didn't touch/rub/hug/try-and-make-out-with the Stones, although I cannot say the same for all of my companions on that trip (looking at you Guinness) and that picture was taken the same day by someone in our group. Clearly, this proves that Stonehenge is haunted.
If you want to make your own henge, you may do so if
a few simple steps.
1 Be an awesome Stone Age person! I just want to give props to Stone Age people for a second. They had very little to work with. Pretty much just stone and dirt, but they still dreamed big, and they worked with what they had. Go them!
2 Go to Wales to get yourself some awesome Welsh rocks. Ignore the close by stones, because who cares about them. Actually, just kidding, get some of those too. (I’m skipping over how they transported the stones, because I honestly don’t think the debate about method is nearly as interesting as archeologists seem to think.)
3 Carve your stones into desired shapes.
1 Be an awesome Stone Age person! I just want to give props to Stone Age people for a second. They had very little to work with. Pretty much just stone and dirt, but they still dreamed big, and they worked with what they had. Go them!
2 Go to Wales to get yourself some awesome Welsh rocks. Ignore the close by stones, because who cares about them. Actually, just kidding, get some of those too. (I’m skipping over how they transported the stones, because I honestly don’t think the debate about method is nearly as interesting as archeologists seem to think.)
3 Carve your stones into desired shapes.
4 Loose the earth within the desired henge
area, perhaps using sand, for extra sinkage, although your stones are so heavy,
I really don’t understand how that would made a massive difference. Sorry
scholars.
5 Arrange your stones (except for the
capstones). Use all kinds of horrifying, yet simple techniques to get them
upright. (Not even wanting to put my toes in the water of that ongoing discussion)
6 Pack the heaps of earth around the
stones tightly so that they don’t tip over.
7 Keep going—bury the whole structure,
until you’ve got a pretty steep manmade hill.
8
It’s going to rain and stuff, because
this is England. The rain will wear some of the earth away, which means you’re
going to have to redo steps 5 and 6 (and maybe even 4) a few times. Don’t worry
about it, by this point, you’ve been dead for ages and your kids' kids' kids' etc.
are now working on the project that you started when you went to Wales to bring
back some cool Welsh rocks.
9 Once the ground is really secure, you can go ahead and scrap off that top layer of earth so you can just barely see the tops of the stones.
10 Slide
those massive capstones into place on top of the mound.
11 Start
digging.
12 Let
the grass grow, and watch from the afterlife as thousands of generations of
your progeny can’t figure out how the hell you did that.
13 Laugh.
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