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Jez
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|  Posted 11-12-2002 at 19:14
So own up...
Who first used the word "megarak"?
And can you prove it??
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Andy B
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|  Posted 11-12-2002 at 22:05
Me! But how to prove it. Let's think. Who was there. First use was on the Stones List I'm sure...
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|  Posted 12-12-2002 at 15:02
Andy,
I think it was you also. I remember you posting on the Stones mailing list ages ago and I'd never heard it before you said it.
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|  Posted 13-12-2002 at 07:49
I tried to look for it in the List archive, but all of the older messages are undated. We need an internet archaeologist.
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Anonymous
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It's a classic Alligator Descartes-ism, I think. Probably from a private mailing list containing some of the early stones list regulars discussing some of the anoraky theories of one-time list regular, Chris Lees. Before the aliens took him away. 
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I have that particular discussion list archived on CD-ROM somewhere. But much more intriguing/worrying is why you would *want* proof
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Andy B
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| Posted 26-01-2003 at 23:34
Martin,
Nope, it was definitely thought up by me. My corroberation is that I got the idea from being an offshore radio anorak, and seeing the obsessive similarities in the two subcultures!
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| Posted 09-09-2006 at 19:51
It's been a while, but I'd like to provide evidence that I did coin the term 'megarak' and not Alligator Descartes. It's first use was by myself on the Stones Mailing list here: 5th October 1997
http://henge.demon.co.uk/archives/1997-10/msg00009.html
Unless Alligator can provide any evidence of it's use earlier than this then that's it deciced.
There's also something of a quite historic exchange between myself and Alligator here:
http://henge.demon.co.uk/archives/1997-10/msg00042.html
AB: Do you fancy helping with a mad ambitious endeavor to get images of every single megalith on the Internet? Again have a look at the Prehistoric Web Index.
http://henge.demon.co.uk/archives/1997-10/msg00046.html
AD: Well, this is part of where the whole Web idea comes in, one would imagine. I'm perfectly happy to continue putting up images of the Scottish sites since they're pretty reachable, and I'm sure I'd be ably aided and abetted by Martin McCarthy on this one. I'm pretty sure between us we can cover quite a good proportion of the sites.
With thanks to Chris Tweed for such a good list archive
Cheers,
Andy
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Andy B
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| Posted 09-09-2006 at 19:54
This is also when we first heard from the enigmatic Chris Lees, who was doing a lot of interesting research he wouldn't tell us much about. He disappeared a year or so later, never to resurface. Are you sitill out there Chris?
http://henge.demon.co.uk/archives/1997-10/msg00040.html
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Jez
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| Posted 13-09-2006 at 11:07
Why?
To get it into a dictionary, of course.
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| Posted 14-09-2006 at 13:45
It would be good to get it into the OED. It's been in 'proper' print a number of times, in 3rd Stone and Fortean Times thanks to the efforts of Neil Mortimer.
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