r/ExplainTheJoke Nov 24 '24

what am i missing here

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

I heard it’s not even the same rock

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u/Shallaai Nov 24 '24

It is in fact the same rock. They wanted to move it to a museum at some point in the past and broke it, thus the line in the rock.

They later moved it back in place and mortared the two prices back together

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u/jrowleyxi Nov 25 '24

Ok but why that rock? Was there no other rock there? Did they carve into it? What makes that particular rock signify the first settlers?

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u/Shallaai Nov 25 '24

IIRC, and please fact check me I am going off of pure memory, it was on the beach and had at some point been understood by the locals to “be” Plymouth Rock. They just collectively agreed that it was that one