I heard tell that they even had a *sound* aspect to them, too.
That they were [and this is all theory, mind you] constructed in a fashion that channeled the wind in a certain way to, well, make cool noise. Of course, I've also read that Stonehenge was not only a burial ground, but a gymnasium, a dance hall, and an all-you-eat buffet.

We still don't know *why* those nutty English folk built them, but considering it took something like 800 years, that's some serious dedication.

The English: Can't cook worth shit, but if large, monolithic rocks need moving, they're your people.

Can't move rocks for crap, though.

So, how are your rock moving skills coming along, choc?

So far, I'm working on the lingo.  My wife thinks I'm getting the hang of it, so I'll start to moving rocks next.

What? He's referring to apartments as "flats" and elevators as "lifts" now? Next thing you'll know he'll say "tea and scones" when he *really* means to say "doughnuts and whatever-that-swill-is-they-serve-at-coffee-time".

Ben tries to say "cheers", but it sounds more like he's saying "chairs", so my mum laughs at him. ^_^

I stand hip deep in the corpses of my enemies grinning maniacally, or ignoring it entirely as it is meaningless.

I don't think the world's going to end in 2012.  I don't think we're that lucky.  I figure at least another 2-3 generations will have to live with the mess we've made of this planet before it finally implodes upon itself. 

But, hey, I'm an optimist...

We still don't know *why* those nutty English folk built them, but considering it took something like 800 years, that's some serious dedication.

Whatever else they may have been, they weren't English. They were a strange race of people, and we're not clear on who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains.

These people were extremely ancient. Before the Celts we know from history, and before the Beaker culture we know from archaeology. We don't know the name of their race or anything at all of their language.

The English are an entirely different people, the result of a mix between the Romanised Britons abandoned by the Empire and the Germanic barbarians who moved in afterwards. Calling the Stonehenge builders English is just as wrong as the earlier confusions between the Mexica and the Maya; there's a geographic connection, sure, but a gap of thousands of years. And at least the Aztecs inherited some of the Maya culture; the English have entirely forgotten the Stonehenge builders, and only marvel at their ruins.