Rob, I too particularly like the 'jolly'.
I know this is a light touch comp, but I would like to speak up for our savvy forebears and just take issue with that one word, 'simple', applied to folk of the past. I think the devising and construction of megalithic astronomical/calendrical observatories such as Stonehenge, and others worldwide, gives the lie to that... Even a few centuries ago supposedly learned men of science could scoff at stones falling from the sky, but we know better now. The ancients may well have experienced such cataclysms at times and noted a periodicity (e.g. meteor showers recur annually, and with particular intensity at greater intervals)... something useful to keep track of for advance warning. Hence the effort they put into megaliths? Maybe they knew more than they're often given credit for!
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