Rockin' a box
By adamg - 11/16/07 - 9:52 am
The World's Most Boring Tourist Attraction will be put in a box while the portico surrounding it is repaired. A suggestion: Paint a picture of the rock on the outside of the box. Nobody will even notice.
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Rock in a box
By steve - 11/16/07 - 10:14 am
How long before some enterprising person creates a parody-of-a-parody video called "Rock In A Box"? Not too long, I hope. (link is perhaps NSFW)
Maybe it could be commissioned by the Park Service to play at the site while the real rock is concealed.
You'd have to be stoned to enjoy visiting this site
By Ron Newman - 11/16/07 - 10:15 am
The reporter who has to cover the re-dedication
By adamg - 11/16/07 - 10:23 am
Yes, him.
Funny
By Bostonian (not verified) - 11/16/07 - 10:52 am
That's funny, I thought they would have had some old fossil cover it.
That would be gneiss
By SwirlyGrrl - 11/16/07 - 12:43 pm
What an ignious idea! Then again, an old fossil might turn out to be a bit erratic.
You'd have a tuff time taking that old rock for granite.
And it has only sedimental value, anyway
By Ron Newman - 11/16/07 - 12:51 pm
Careful!
By SwirlyGrrl - 11/16/07 - 1:10 pm
You might be accused of a basalt on American values!
Oh, please
By adamg - 11/16/07 - 1:25 pm
Sounds like they're full of schist.
Only a real moraine would
By SwirlyGrrl - 11/16/07 - 1:28 pm
Only a real moraine would say that!
Mayflower rock-it ship
By S. (not verified) - 11/16/07 - 1:19 pm
Plymouth town officials are hoping that renovations will boulder local tourism.
Anybody remember the Pet Rock fad?
By new fossil (not verified) - 11/16/07 - 1:07 pm
It happened in the seventies, of course.
Pet Rocks
By Anonymous (not verified) - 11/16/07 - 2:03 pm
Darn, I was about to bring those up. Here's a picture for those who are too young to remember:
http://www.drfad.com/images/petrock.jpg
You bet Jurassic I do
By Gareth - 11/16/07 - 2:10 pm
:p
Slightly more seriously
By Anonymous (not verified) - 11/16/07 - 11:50 am
When Berlin was fixing up the Brandenburg Gate, a DSL company bought the ad space on the outside of the repair curtain. They made it seem as if the gate (like their company) was a gateway onto the world and through the painted pillars in the ad, you see the Eiffel Tower, etc. Pretty witty ad and it's the kind of thing they should do here too.
Paint the outside of the box with not only a mimic of the rock itself, but from the side away from the sea, you should see an overlay of the water with tall ships painted into the scene as if looking out on the ocean as it would have been with the Pilgrims just arriving.
I think that'd be neat anyways. Here's a link to my 2001 pic of the Brandenburg Gate ad, so you can see what I mean.
That is cool
By adamg - 11/16/07 - 2:17 pm
If only the rock were bigger than a your basic kitchen range.