Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A good proportion of Greece's (and other countries') most famous historic objects were stolen and are on display in museums in other countries. The answer could be much simpler than creating the Pepsi Parthenon: figure out where the most important objects are, and send bills for rent in arrears. The Parthenon/Elgin marbles since 1812 - that should add up to, oh, about 10% of Greece's sovereign debt, surely? Marty On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Mark, > Not as funny as you think - they want to sell off US$30 billion worth of > islands, according to some reports. From there, it is but a short step to > selling their cultural sites. At least they will get some money for it - > all > the countries which had European masters for any length of time are used to > having all their cultural artifacts shamelessly looted - the British Museum > and the Louvre are the largest repositories of stolen loot in the world. > Even the so called 'Crown Jewels' is almost 100% loot! > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> Sell off their history?!?! >> That's really deeply nasty stuff Larry! >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> > From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com> >> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:45:53 -0400 >> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> > Subject: [Leica] Greece's woes >> > >> > The answer for Greece's economic woes is simple. Sell off the ancient >> > artifacts to willing corporate entities for use in advertising. Next >> > year >> > you may buy your soft drinks influenced by a TV campaign filmed at the >> Pepsi >> > Cola Partheon. And you can be reassured that your new Dell computer, the >> > Dellphic Oracle, always gives the right answer. There is precedent, the >> name >> > Spartan is already used for condoms. >> > >> > Larry Z ;-) >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >