Things looking up for the Cerne Abbas giant

[beagle]

here

Ancient fertility symbol  . Everyone knows it was made after a drunken night in the pub in the early 1600s, to piss off the puritans and help the tourist T-smock industry.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

here

Ancient fertility symbol  . Everyone knows it was made after a drunken night in the pub in the early 1600s, to piss off the puritans and help the tourist T-smock industry.

Something like that in the US would've been fire-bombed long ago, in spite of any historical record.

We're idiots like that, I know.... 

[Pachyderm]

Whereas here, it's a traffic direction.

"Turn left at the 180ft nudist. You'll know when..."

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Back home we have some of these:

I wonder how is that the priests didn't destroy them back in the days, though.

[Griffin NoName]

There's a mistake in the article.

"The increased growth has been blamed on the wet summer and shortage of sheep farmers lending their flocks."

should read

"The wet summer and shortage of sheep farmers lending their flocks has been caused by the increased growth".

It's clearly linked to the banking crisis too.

I saw it on the news with the sound off; I am glad I now know why; I was worried.

[pieces o nine]

The question anxiously asked in the States: are they maintaining *both* chalk giants?   

[beagle]

That has to be one of the more inventive versions of hoopla.