It always looks smaller without the apes on horseback around it.
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It always looks smaller without the apes on horseback around it.
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For that, you need to go to Flushing Meadow Park in Queens, where the Fountain of the Planet of the Apes is located not far from the Unisphere. (Really!)
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They got away.
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But their legacy remains, hewn into the livin’ rock…
Of Stone’enge.
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Total heels, anyway.
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I don’t get it
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heel = cad. A play on being heels for chipping away at the heel stone.
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heel = cad. A play on being heels for chipping away at the heel stone.
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Thank you muchly. I knew the first part but had never heard of heel stone before.
You can see a picture of the heelstone about halfway down on the Wikipedia entry.
Of course, I also have to link to my pictures from when I visited in March:
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But their legacy remains, hewn into the livin’ rock…
Of Stone’enge.
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What would they say to us if we were here tonight?
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And for some reason it’s obligatory for all American tourists who visit it to say “Gee, it’s so small.”
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Is this before or after you say “Why did they build it so close to the highway?”?
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Is this before or after you say “Why did they build it so close to the highway?”?
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Or “It’ll be nice when it’s finished”
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What the heck? Were these souvenir hunters, or NewAge types of an unscrupulous sort , looking for relics? Or what?
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It’s Rapanui revenge for that Finn who broke off part of one of thier statues earlier this year.
(Though why they’d attack Stonehenge is still a bit hard for me to understand.)