I command you to go to Google Earth right now

[billyskank]

enter these coordinates into the search box: 50 48 50.06N 2 28 29.8W

Rotate to point E roughly upwards, zoom in and prepare to laugh your ass off.

[BarenakedLady]

1. You can't make me!

...


Hehehehe. That was funny.

:rofl:

[billyskank]

2. You couldn't help yourself

I know you. :P

If somebody did that yesterday, they would call it filthy vandalism. But since it was done centuries ago, it's heritage and that's okay. :thumbsup:

:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. omg!

:rofl:

[billyskank]

4. I told you.

Isn't Britain brill? ;)

:hi:

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. Oh, most definitely

:7


This reminds me... did you see my flirty pic? :rofl: :evilgrin:

[billyskank]

16. Yes

and it made me have very unworthy thoughts :blush:

;)

:loveya:

[RevolutionaryActs]

20. Teeeheee

:loveya: too

[crispini]

5. .

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[billyskank]

8. Zactly.

:hi:

[In_The_Wind]

6. Why am I seeing ...

an odd drawing of a man?

[billyskank]

7. Because many centuries ago

some Celtic people decided to draw a really big picture on a hill of a guy with a big club, a huge erection and a surprised look on his face. Maybe they got drunk and thought it would be a laugh. It was a good effort seeing as they could not step back to get a good view of it. It is still there. Nowadays it is called the Cerne Abbas Giant.

:hi:

P.S. The picture of you I drew is my favourite, but the silhouette is a close second. :loveya:

[In_The_Wind]

10. Cerne Abbas Giant ~ eh. It was interesting to see on Google Earth.

Did you see this: www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6663405&mesg_id=6665463

and this: www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6663405&mesg_id=6665533 ?

P. S. We all love you & I want to make sure that you know that!

[billyskank]

11. I saw them both

and I love you too, Joani. :hug:

:loveya:

[In_The_Wind]

13. good

I can always use a little more love from the people I respect.
The world is far too cold a place (and big from the looks of Google Earth) to be without my friends.
Lovers come and lovers go ... but true friendship last forever.

[billyskank]

21. Oh Joani

:hug:

Lovers don't come or go around here. :(

[In_The_Wind]

23. well ... billy

They don't come or go around here either. x( But I'm hoping that will change for both of us in the future.
I love the hell outta my parrot and I'm going to either take Lady Leigh (she's 11 years old now) on my travels with Frodo or get a puppy. However *big sigh* what I really need is two human arms to hold me.

[Fox Mulder]

9. That is one huge...

club.

[billyskank]

12. Isn't it?

;)

[MysticalChicken]

14. Um... how do I do this?

I went to earth.google.com and apparently I have to download something and pay for it? Isn't there an online map or something I can just plug the coordinates into?

[billyskank]

18. Google Earth is an application

You download it and install it, last time I did so nothing told me to pay for it.

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

[MysticalChicken]

24. It doesn't work.

Maybe because my computer is more than 4 years old, but I kept trying to install it and it wouldn't let me--it kept saying "Another installation is in progress. You must complete that installation before starting another one" which is a dirty dirty lie, I don't have anything else being installed right now.

I want to see what's so funny. Is there a link to a picture?

[havocmom]

26. Might not have enough memory or fast enough connection?

I know we couldn't download google earth on the old computer. The new one opened up the world.

Think ya gotta have some sort of 3-D card in the 'puter too.

[MonkeyFunk]

27. Here's a depiction of it

it's an ancient celtic hillside drawing:

[idgiehkt]

28. pic

does anyone know what this is called or the location so I can look up more about it?

[MysticalChicken]

29. *giggles like a schoolgirl* (nt)

[Ikonoklast]

31. "The Rude Man" n/t

[idgiehkt]

32. thanks!

:hi:

The Cerne Abbas Giant, Dorset
The Cerne Abbas Giant or the 'Rude Man' is the largest hillfigure in Britain, he (the figure's gender is beyond doubt) is one of two representations of the human form, the other being the Long Man of Wilmington in East Sussex. The giant, carved in solid lines from the chalk bedrock measures in at 180 feet high, and carries a huge knobbled club, which measures 120 feet in length.

The first written record of the giant appears in 1751 in a letter by Dorset historian John Hutchins, he suggested that the figure was cut in the mid 1600's. Another slightly later reference to the figure can be found in the Gentleman's magazine of 1764, where the figure is described and depicted with a navel, that has long since disappeared. The lack of earlier references is frustrating but does not mean that the figure dates to the 17th century, and its style and proximity to an Iron Age earthwork suggests a much earlier origin.
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/cerne_abbass.html

[MonkeyFunk]

34. The Cerne Abbas Giant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_giant

[Throwing Stones]

17. spolier alert

caveman crop circles?
maybe aliens are not as sophisticated as assumed?

[billyskank]

19. Perhaps even aliens get drunk sometimes

:)

[Throwing Stones]

22. I guess it's possible

that an alien life form has perfected intergalactic travel but has only invented the most rudimentary system of symbols with which they communicate.

or that they stole dad's spaceship and a bottle from the liquor cabinet and went on a joyride.

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Electrocutions are another big worry

But we hope that guillotining has been eradicated from the urban areas, and garrotting is confined almost entirely to Luton. So if you have a friend in prison or under the sentence of death, be sure to let us know at this address:

THE POLICE FORCE, "SUNNYVIEW", YEOVIL, SOMERSET

[Callalily]

30. You'd think I'd

know better by now - but Noooooo I looked too!

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[supernova]

33. So, do you think he's single?

:rofl: