The Great Squid People used to ride the gleaming white chalk roads in great glass globes of water pulled by teams of clattering crabs.

But then the deers took over, a Dark Age came when the roads were covered with grass.

@futurebird so it is written in the ancient murals.
@futurebird Everything changed when the Fiat nation attacked.
@futurebird Okay cool... but also this pic is amazing
@futurebird I mean, it is a slice of the 303 so…seems legit.
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I have never seen such a perfectly proportioned archaeological section 😉
@futurebird I love that early deer recognized the need for road trip snacks and found an elegant solution.
@ericromberg
Also image three seems to be invention of roadkill.
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Fortunately, the archers looked after that problem
@misterscience @futurebird
I thought that guy was just trying to... hit the road.
@futurebird but in the end we all got lambos
@futurebird a perfectly valid interpretation imo

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Paging @SarahMackAttack :
[email protected] - The Great Squid People used to ride the gleaming white chalk roads in great glass globes of water pulled by teams of clattering crabs.

But then the deers took over, a Dark Age came when the roads were covered with grass.

@futurebird "A modern road" should read "modern 'A' road". An A-road is a type of road in Britain which is of national importance but does not usually have the restrictions on foot and cycle traffic of a motorway (A(M) roads have these restrictions, as motorways).
@futurebird just be careful of the section of the A303 where they took the slice, as there's now a dirty great pothole.

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"The A303 highway that passes only 165 meters (541 feet) from the south side of Stonehenge...

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I love your primal story! 😁
@futurebird You’re really kraken me up with the squid people jokes.

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Those who have travelled the A303 know that it often takes geological time to traverse it.

@futurebird This.is.great! Thank you for sharing & - way more - thank you for commenting it! Matching song: We did’ em our ways.
@futurebird The deer sadly perished when a great bronze arrow was shot backward through time so that the age of Man may begin.
@futurebird joke aside I had never seen this before. It's so cool 😲
@futurebird The darkest timeline :(
@futurebird history is so wonderful 

@futurebird about five years ago I was stuck in a traffic jam on a section of the A303 - it's famous for summer traffic jams - with deep, thick woodland either side of the road.

I glanced left and was surprised to see a small herd of wild deer, stags with impressive antlers, sitting down in the forest as close to the edge of it they could be, relaxing in the summer afternoon heat and lazily watching the slowly-crawling traffic

@forestpines @futurebird

Very picturesque stretch!

About 30 years ago I found a dead kestrel by the side of the A303 and took it home.
It was the first bird I reduced to a skeleton. I put it in a plastic box the would allow insects in, and hung it near the exhaust of my central heating as it was late autumn.
It had a ring on it, and I reported it to the RSPB. Still got the skeleton! And the flight feathers.

@futurebird How curious! I always thought deer wouldn't need roads. Ask Rudolph.
@futurebird im gonna take a bite of the road cake