new at IKEA: HËNJ (Janine makes us laugh)

[janine]

this is awesome!

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/...

[Jonathan]

I like the disclaimer at the end: "If plagued by demons or suffering from pestilence, seek advice..."

[Helena]

That’s great :D

[janine]

BunWat wrote: "AWESOME!!!

Everybody must check out that link. Also I adore that part of the assembly is to get a wizard. Hey Wizard!! Come over heah we needja."

yes, i love that wizard! and the drunk giants!

[Sarah]

That's awesome! I like where it shows the proper way to move the big slabs.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

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[Lobstergirl, el principe]

That's cute.

[Jonathan]

Stonehenge was not built in a day, LG.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

A week?

[Jonathan]

Six days. On the seventh day, the caveman played pinochle.

[Aynge]

Har!

That reminds me, I need some Helmers for all my nail polish.

[Jonathan]

The area where my grandparents came from in northwestern Spain is filled with weird megalithic structures. They're nowhere near as big as Stonehenge, but they are all over the place, and no one is entirely sure what they were for:

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Shelter from the rain, or a birthing hut.

[Jonathan]

No idea. Most of them are large enough that maybe two or three people could sit inside comfortably, but that's about it.

[janine]

the dutch equivalent, 'hunebed':



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they were used as graves.

and then there's these in france:

[Rachel]

OMG that's real?? Ikea did that? Really?

[janine]

no, it's not by IKEA, but a parody of their building instructions.