Rockin' a box

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

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.

steve | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 10:14am
Ron Newman | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 10:15am
adamg | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 10:23am

Funny

That's funny, I thought they would have had some old fossil cover it.

Bostonian (not verified) | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 10:52am

That would be gneiss

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.

SwirlyGrrl | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 12:43pm
Ron Newman | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 12:51pm

Careful!

You might be accused of a basalt on American values!

SwirlyGrrl | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 1:10pm

Oh, please

Sounds like they're full of schist.

adamg | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 1:25pm

Only a real moraine would

Only a real moraine would say that!

SwirlyGrrl | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 1:28pm

Mayflower rock-it ship

Plymouth town officials are hoping that renovations will boulder local tourism.

S. (not verified) | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 1:19pm

Anybody remember the Pet Rock fad?

It happened in the seventies, of course.

new fossil (not verified) | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 1:07pm

Pet Rocks

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

Anonymous (not verified) | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 2:03pm
Gareth | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 2:10pm

Slightly more seriously

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.

Anonymous (not verified) | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 11:50am

That is cool

If only the rock were bigger than a your basic kitchen range.

adamg | Fri, 11/16/2007 - 2:17pm

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