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Hob H
Hob Nov 15, 2005 00:54:33
Replying to Ishmael

heheheh!

Good 'un :)

I guess oce the novelty wore off, and charging admittance was no longer an option, many farmers would plump for a mystical shotgun full of energetically charged crystals of rock salt.

Still, I harbour a hope that when the art circles are completely out of fashion, mebbe some genuinely unexplainable ones might still appear. The world needs mysteries.

I Ishmael
Ishmael Nov 15, 2005 01:00:53
Replying to Hob

yeah but we haven't had a single circle for years!
Terry got an email from a chap in Africa recently. A Zulu who said they have had single circles for years.
He can document them on paper back to 1861.
He reckons that when a circle formed they staked out the edge with posts then after the harvest placed stones around the edge.
UK farmers are now puting up signs warning visiters about the chemicals they spray on the crop for fear of being sued by the yanks.
Years ago in a mischievous mood I told a croppy that the OED had put the word Cropcircle in the dictionary but had to take the word Guilible out to make room for it.
She looked up cropcircle first! ;)

S StoneLifter
StoneLifter Nov 15, 2005 07:15:22
Replying to Hob

Everyone's tired of crop circles - perhaps appreciation of them takes some kind of generous openhandeness that is difficult in a 'grab it and take it' culture. The artificial copies are declining so that the proportion of genuine ones has risen. The shape of the 'circles' is not the same throughout the world, I noticed the US receives square ones sometimes. The most complex are only found in Britain, usually on the Chalk downs, and their complexity of design puts them well beyond the conception of the human mind. Yes, farmers are still charging admittance and, as most here are heavy skeptics, I'll post a link to one that looks a lot like a dung beetle. Everyone's watched a dung beetle roll a piece of shit into a ball and greedily hide it away, right ? No, no, the circle makers aren't trying to tell us anything ! http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2005/eastfield2/eastfield2005b.html