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London Bridge (Lake Havasu)
- hyphyphyph 11y agoHa! Lake Havasu City is largely where I grew up -- fun to see a link in HN. Havasu is a huge party town, so often throughout the summer you'd see hundreds of boats and drunk partiers around the bridge. Really weird sight. The movie Piranha 3D was filmed in Havasu. Don't remember if they feature the bridge.
- bmajz 11y agoSpent summers out there - it was nice to get on the lake during the Mojave heat waves
- elliottcarlson 11y agoI lived in Lake Havasu City for a while as a kid - I've always found it amusing to tell people about the London Bridge in the middle of the desert.
- jsingleton 11y agoThat bridge is so much more aesthetically pleasing than its replacement. There is an oft repeated myth that they bought the wrong bridge by mistake but that is clearly denied in the article.
- thp 11y agoBest part that the whole city was created for this one company
- anonu 11y agoHow much did the bridge cost to purchase from London? I don't see that mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
- lukateake 11y ago$2.5MM to purchase and $7MM to reassemble.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Havasu_City,_Arizona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Havasu_City,_Arizona
- pierrec 11y agoThere's this crazy thing that always strikes me about Wikipedia articles. I read or skim through the text in a linear way, out of habit. Until inadvertently, I get to the "In Popular Culture" section, and it seems the article turns on me and attacks me with ridiculously nerdy content. Pinky and the Brain? Heck, this is beyond nerdy. I don't even know how to qualify it, but it always makes you snap back to the fact that you are not reading a normal run-of-the-mill encyclopaedia. (And it makes me wonder, who even takes the time to write this kind of incongruous cross-referencing?)
- heydenberk 11y agoNerdy shows are more likely to reference the sorts of things you'd read about on Wikipedia, hence the frequency with which you might see shows like Futurama show up in the popular culture sections of Wikipedia articles. And, of course, Wikipedians are likely to be nerds who catch those references and rush to update the appropriate article.
- yellowapple 11y agoIf you think that's bad, have a look at TVTropes, which is basically Wikipedia's "In Popular Culture" cranked Up To Eleven and turned into its own separate encyclopedia.
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- DanBC 11y agoIt's a bit of a problem that Wikipedia has a list of fictional ducks, but doesn't have a lists of olympic athletes -- because an olympic athlete is not notable.
- Nadya 11y agoEr... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_competitors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_competitors Bit more useful organization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_competitors_by_year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_competitors_by...
- jhallenworld 11y agoWell they should buy the Thames Tunnel to go with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel
- poooogles 11y agoI'd rather they didn't, it's quite often my journey to work.
- chrisguilbeau 11y agoGrowing up in Austin, I remember my dad telling me about this after hearing the lyrics to the song they used for the theme for Austin City Limits (the PBS show not the festival). Good ol' Texas country. "Well, when you're down on your luck, and you ain't got a buck, in London you're a goner. Even London Bridge has fallen down, and moved to Arizona" London Homesick Blues, Gary P. Nunn