On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:28:36AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano > > <40101.nospam@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > Stonehenge sucks! > > > > Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or > > so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway. I spent > > most of my visit playing Sonic2 on a RedHat laptop. > > And then there's the people (mostly American) standing around filming > > the stones with their camcorder - huh? > > Really, the main problem is that it is far too distant from London, > where most of the target audience (American or other) is visiting. Far > better would be a good replica close to London, complete with Did someone say Legoes! Now that they are dumping the mindstrom legos, they want to focus on JUST LEGOS! ask them to build a lego stonehenge (actual size!) x-) > underground cinema/planetarium and all the gimmicks to explain the > theories about what people might have done there. Then 95% of visitors > would use the replica for their filming and visiting. They would not > want to touch the stones because of the feeling of awe (however > misplaced). Many more visitors could be accommodated, and they would > pay for the convenience and ancilliary facilities. If that became > over-crowded, a second one could be built, perhaps near one of the > other main tourist attractions in Britain. Meanwhile, relieved of > pressure, the original could be freed of restrictions and returned to > being a set of old stones in a field with a signboard for the > interested, as it was when I first saw it. Doesn't solve the problem > of the neodruids, but they aren't much of a problem anyway... > > Any investors here? Once we get "Stonehenge-plus" up and running, there > are a few other historic heaps that could be replicated so as to make > them more accessible. And imagine the boost to revenues if a city not > too many Americans visit constructed a stonehenge-plus, and a Windsor > Castle with access to the parts the public don't get to see, a Number > 10 fully open to the public, etc. Oh yes, and a Broadmoor and a > Holloway womens prison with actresses as guards and prisoners, and... > > -- > richard > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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