Build a house for god-botherers, would ye? Next to my sheep? I don’t think so. We keep to the old gods here, not yer man on a tree. Aye, I wiss that the King, gods rot him, protects ye. But we’ll show ye.
We dug for three months on the hill above yer kirk. Filled-in the pits with chalk. And tonight we took the grass covers off. When ye awake from yer monkish cells on the morrow, ye’ll see it right enough. A giant man, with a giant cock, waving down at you, all day, every day. Be gone.
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Neil MacDonald Author 
The dialect sets the tone.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle. It was entirely made up.
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Awesome last line. Giant cock indeed. 🤣
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I took a leaf out of your pranking book this week
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So did Nobbinmaug, something in the water. Well played!
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Great story. I used the Blythe Intaglios in a novel as well. What vision to create something that can never been seen.
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Thanks so much, Joshua. It’s on a hill so it can be seen
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That was great fun and a good way to tie in two pictures. Good work, Neil!
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Thanks, Mason
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What a creative spin to the image, Neil.
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Thanks so much, Jade
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You’re very welcome, Neil.
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Loved the dialect in this!
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Thanks so much, Lizy. I don’t think the dialect was very authentic, but it does the job.
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I think that the monk’s will laugh untill their sides spilt. I nearly did
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Often they don’t see the funny side of rudeness. Thanks Michael
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A giant man, with a giant cock, waving down at me, all day, every day would be enough to make me leave. “I just can’t take any more of that cock.”
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That’s certainly the hope
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Bwahaha! Natives 1 – Monks 0.
Great take on the prompt, Neil.
P.S. Now I know for certain you read New Scientist!
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And now I know you do. Thanks so much, Penny
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Ha! Brilliant and very amusing! I can imagine his expression the next morning!
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Smug, I think. The expression will be smug
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Great story, the dialect really makes it pop. And the story of the giant is so interesting. Your explanation makes a lot of sense. The club in his hand, too. 😀
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Thanks so much
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That’ll have them monks running for the safety of their cells 🙂
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He hopes they’ll run further than that
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You’re good at dialect and I love your unusual take on the prompt. Creative and …yummy!
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Thanks so much, that’s very kind of you
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Now that made me laugh! What a great piece.
But serious too, with colonisers always ‘knowing best’ and forcing their ways on others who’ve survived perfectly happily for centuries.
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I like that double response. Thank you, Jenne
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nothing to hide in its full glory. most certainly, rising to the occasion. 🙂
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And nobody knows why they made it
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How weird is that? And I thought Serpent Mound in Ohio was weird… I wonder what an alien would think if they flew over the earth and saw all our effigies and earth works… what messages would they convey?????? Great Story this week. Have a safe one!
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Thanks so much. They might, contrary to other evidence, think these might be marks of civilisation
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Now that’s a perfectly logical explanation for the Cerne Abbas giant. Loved the rant.
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Thanks so much
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I like the irreverent feisty defiance of the giant builders that shines through the story, writ large !
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The original meaning of supersize it
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This is so interesting and shocking! Your words do justice to the giant. 🙂
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Thanks so much. In fact, nobody knows what the giant was for
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I can imagine. Seems a bit overdone. But nonetheless interesting.
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