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insane headline to pair with the actual photo of the beastie itself

also apparently this rock art dates across multiple periods spanning thousands of years? but i couldn't find much detail on that so i can't give specifics

but yeah, this isn't just a memory of giraffes, but of giraffes now absent encountered by people just 2000 years (the difference between the late roman republic and today) out of the ice age, in a climate unfamiliar to any of the hundred billion people born since the desertification of the sahara drove the ancient egyptians to the nile, near the start of the agricultural revolution

the time between this and the birth of the sahara was nearly as long as the time between the birth of the sahara and now, in which all recorded history is contained, and all languages we can recognise at all - the language and culture of these people would be totally alien to current libyans, twice the difference between the oldest european language and english, predating all but libya's mountains!

Jennings Electronics Industries Ltd. (JEI) - Bushwhacker

“Tom Jennings founded Jennings Musical Industries (JMI), of which Vox was a brand. He needed money to grow the business, so in 1963 he sold a majority shareholding to the Royston group, but was kept on to run JMI. Royston fired him in late 1967 and in 1968 he started up Jennings Electronic Developments, which became Jennings Electronic Industries (JEI). Dick Denney was also kicked out by Royston and went to work for Jennings. All Jennings pedals are thought to be hand-built in very small quantities by Dick Denney. The model range comprised in alphabetical order the Bushwhacker. the Cyclone, the Fuzz, the Growler, the Harmonic Boost, the Hi-Lo Boost, the Repeater, the Scrambler, the Wah-Vol and the Wah-Wah. All these pedals are extremely scarce, but the Bushwhacker and the Cyclone are particularly the rarest of all. JEI lasted until about 1973. My Bushwhacker was supposedly built in 1972.”

“ Apart from the typical Jennings Wah Wah the Bushwhacker is just crap, doing some weird jerky siren stuff. First I thought this thing was broken, but another owner confirmed that is what it is “ (https://mbasic.facebook.com/136644642826/photos/a.168035877826/10152675285172827/?type=3 )

s. more pics including detailed gutshots at tonehome.de

“ Among the first JEI products were a pedal called the Cyclone, and a primitive synthesizer named the Bushwacker— the sounds of which Denney described as being similar to “croaks.” “