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“randolph,
What is your favorite film?”
the karate kid.
“…you could get right up to the Liberty bell in Philly and put your fingers in the crack. You could also just go in the backdoor to see it and not wait in the long line up front.”
This sounds suspiciously like it it was taken right out of a sex club rule book.
Jessi, I guess the “what you can get away with” could mean almost anything.
To mean the statement meant that a company charges the most it can for a product and still have sales.
If that is what you meant, then it will usually be inconsistent with maximizing profits.
A company that sells ice cream for $1 might well be able to make a greater profit than a company that sells for $7, albeit at a much smaller margin of profit.
“Before 9-11 you could get right up to the Liberty bell in Philly and put your fingers in the crack. You could also just go in the backdoor to see it and not wait in the long line up front.”
I can still do the first thing. I don’t go in the backdoor. And I never have to wait in line.
Mona Lisa was stolen, in 1911, I just was informed by Good Sir Wiki.
Donatella, there’s nothing in the world lazier than a French civil servant.
jester, Mona lisa was attacked twice after 1910. Once by a russian woman like a couple of years ago :o(. From what I recall, she bought a mug at the souvenier shop and then threw it at the painting, or maybe it was the other woman but one of them definitely did that. Painting wasn’t damaged though.
Lech does have a point. I freaking tracked through the Louvre corridors for like an hour to get to the mona lisa (The museum is HUUUUGGGEEEE) and when I got to it, it was under like a 5 inch thick glass and it’s fairly small painting and you had to stand like 6 feet away as it was roped off. I was actually kinda pissed about that. I looked at it and was like “that’s it?!”. At least with Van Gogh and Picasso, you can go up to the actual painting and look at them close.
“Wasn’t the Mona Lisa attacked by a crazed man once in the early 1910s? How close can you get to the statue David? the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives is under about a foot of glass as I remember.”
Yes, and it was more recent than that if I recall.
Alot of the statues are right out there in the open,
which probably explains why many of them are missing their pee pees.
I was incensed once in the Louvre.
The guards were letting everyone take pictures
with flash. This degrades the canvas and the
images over time. Can you imagine how many times
the Mona Lisa has been photographed?
I know I sound like the proverbial cane wagger,
but I got into a “discussion” with the guards.
“What can weeeeeee ddoooooo?” What do zey doooooo in
America”? “We take those rules seriously” I told them.
So I took it upon myself to scold a bunch of Japanese
tourists who were going berserk there. It was like
they were snapping Angelina Jolie at the Oscars – it was blinding, like lighting bolts of light going off from their cameras. So I went up and pointedly told them in Japanese that that behavior was prohibited and unacceptable and damaged the art. [believe me I am doing my own eye-rolling at myself as I write this]
They ran away, freaked.
I realize I was being a little, well, forceful, but hello?
This is the world’s cultural heritage for Chrissakes.