# Spinal Tap's Nigel Tufnel reveals all about stonehenge!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 30, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181 "2008-05-30T19:31:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/1 "2008-05-30T19:31:41Z")
[Nigel’s Theories on Stonehenge.](http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/player.html?channel=1804&category=24333&title=05388_00)
Duncan built it.
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### Author:  [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/2 "2008-05-30T20:09:47Z")
Well, that clears all that up, then.
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/3 "2008-05-30T20:16:38Z")
Ya, but I don’t know 'oo 'ee woz or wot ‘ee wuz doin’.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/4 "2008-05-30T20:32:27Z")
All five are are fun, with #4 being the funniest, IMHO.
And of course, [this clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38) is obligatory. 🙂
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2008, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/5 "2008-06-01T08:06:39Z")
Mad props to National Geographic for this publicity idea. NG are Spinal Tap fans!!!
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### Author:  [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/6 "2008-06-01T09:02:14Z")
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the Dawn of history.
There lived a strange race of people…the Druids.
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing…
But their legacy remains…
Hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge…
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/7 "2008-06-01T23:28:13Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew]
[Nigel’s Theories on Stonehenge.](http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/player.html?channel=1804&category=24333&title=05388_00)
Duncan built it.
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FYI, link goes directly to video/sound file.
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### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/8 "2008-06-02T03:23:40Z")
sorry…
[http://www.StonehengeDecoded.com](http://www.StonehengeDecoded.com)
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/9 "2008-06-02T04:39:14Z")
Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do “Stonehenge” tomorrow?
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### Author:  [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spinal-taps-nigel-tufnel-reveals-all-about-stonehenge/451181/10 "2008-06-02T12:07:57Z")
Was the real Stonehenge ever in danger of being crushed by a dwarf?