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Anyone who dedicated blocks of their college days memorizing and reciting lines from This is Spinal Tap when they should have been studying for their Cultural Anthropology final -- or some other equivalent scenario -- may want to check out the new web feature National Geographic opened up today. Actor Christopher Guest once again becomes Nigel Tufnel, lead guitarist of the legendary metal band, Spinal Tap, and sits down with a journalist for "The Stonehenge Interviews." In five short clips, he natters on to a flummoxed interviewer on the real story behind the mysterious monument in England, correcting his questioner that Stonehenge didn't have "builders," but in fact a single "builder" -- a guy named "Dunker" who was very strong and used a drill. Among Nigel's novel theories is that Stonehenge was built not out of the massive stones that remain today, but out of wood that turned (or was turned) into stone by a combination of rain, peat and saliva. IWhen the confused interviewer asked about the saliva, Nigel explains that dinosaurs used to drool quite a lot. Of course, it's so simple. It all makes sense now. Fans of the movie will of course pick up on the reference this series of interviews is playing on -- Spinal Tap had a song about Stonehenge that the band performs during the movie. |
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