Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

[Deryk Barker <dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca>]

Thus spake David P James (dpjames@rogers.com):

> On January 13, 2004 14:12, Deryk Barker wrote:
> ...
> >
> > My major beef is the way that they allow the "Druids" (virutually
> > nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in
> > Caesar) to prance about there on midsummer's morning.
> >
> > Firstly the real Druids did *not* build Stonehenge and secondly the
> > rpesent-day druids were founded in the 18th (?) century by John
> > Aubrey (he of Brief Lives fame) who surveyed Stonehenge and after
> > whom the Aubrey holes are named.
> >
> > These present day idiots in their KKK-style outfits have no more
> > right to special treatment at Stonehenge than does Bugs Bunny.
> > Actually rather less.
> >
> 
> While I agree they're little more than idiots, referring to their garb 
> as "KKK-style" is a bit much considering that their outfits probably 
> pre-date the KKK by a century or two. In fact, it's likely the KKK 
> copied the "Druids'" outfits.

Indeed. I wasn't imputing anything, rather attempting to use a
shorthand that most people would recognise. Mea culpa.

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