On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Tod Hansmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/3/2011 8:45 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: >>> >>> Once you've received your lottery winnings, I would like to present your >>> with some excellent investment opportunities. For example, how would you >>> like to purchase a bridge? I also have a line on some great oceanfront >>> property in Arizona. >>> >> I seem to be missing out on part of programmer culture. >> What's with the references to bridges? >> >> While researching I also found this: >> http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2005-October/055460.html >> >> > No, not programmer culture. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge Look at the references to > "Selling the Brooklyn Bridge." It's actually evolved to the point that > it's not even about Brooklyn Bridge anymore.
Yeah, the confusion with London Bridge is easy to make, since someone actually DID buy London Bridge, some form of which is now in Lake Havasu City, AZ. Unfortunately it's not the really old one built by Peter of Colechurch that had all the heads on pikes and seven-story buildings along its sides. It was the more modern replacement built by John Rennie in the 1800s to replace that one. Rennie's bridge was sold off in 1968 and was shortly thereafter disassembled and reconstructed in AZ. Also, here's another reference to a saying implying gullibility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swampland_in_Florida --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
