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Pighead

If you possessed Mystical Magical Powers what foreign landmarks would you take for your area.

Pighead would love to take the Sydney Opera House and land it down at the Quays in Dundalk. Its not really the most salubrious area of the town and I'm pretty sure the presence of an Opera House is exactly whats neeed to bring a better class of citizen to the area.

What landmark would look lovely where you live?(Alitteration Alert)

Gordon

The Playboy Mansion would look great next door to me.

Pighead

Gordon wrote:

The Playboy Mansion would look great next door to me.

It is indeed a wonderfully structured building and the light brown venetian blinds in the east wing are to die for.

However Pighead must warn you Gordon, that inside this beautiful luxurious abode lies all manner of filth, immorality and chicks wearing next to nothing.

Is that really the kind of stuff you want going on in your area?

The Hill Billy

I'd move the Rhine to flow by my townland (The Blackhills - between Skerries & Balbriggan).

I spent many happy evenings drinking at the outdoor bars along the Rhine in Dusseldorf & think that a massive river flowing over the top of the hill that I live on would be the b0ll0x.

A great accompaniment would be a hoard of lissom young German roller-bladers to weave suggestively up & down the boardwalk I'd have built along the river.

To top it all off - I'd have a permanent late-summer sunset positioned just the far side of the river from my gaff.

Archeron

The Taj Mahal would make a nice centre piece for my back garden. I could paint the minnarets to look like gnome heads so that hopefully noone would notice that I've nicked it.

Gordon

Pighead wrote:

It is indeed a wonderfully structured building and the light brown venetian blinds in the east wing are to die for.

However Pighead must warn you Gordon, that inside this beautiful luxurious abode lies all manner of filth, immorality and chicks wearing next to nothing.

Is that really the kind of stuff you want going on in your area?

It'll be difficult but the venetian blinds really do it for me. I suppose I could have a nunnery on the other side of my house to balance it out?

Pighead

Gordon wrote:

It'll be difficult but the venetian blinds really do it for me. I suppose I could have a nunnery on the other side of my house to balance it out?

Perfect, I'd warn them to tighten their chastity belts though. That Hefner has a way with the ladies which defies belief.

Archeron just to let you know, if you're planning on including the Taj Mahals gardens they measure 320 m × 300 m. You might want to ask your neighbours/local council for permission. Pigheads sure it'll be fine though, the rose and daffodil sections of the garden are supposed to be out of this world.

connundrum

Hmmmm...

The Bernabeu where Lansdowne Road currently is.

Table Mountain where Skerries is.

Oh and Alton Towers where Maynooth is (pffft Maynooth :rolleyes:)

And for my backyard, em.. some sort of mountain - Kilimanjaro would suffice methinks

Seth Brundle

I was thinking of a rain forest but then my whole Saturday would be taken up gardening. So Im opting for the Nürburgring.

Gordon wrote:

The Playboy Mansion would look great next door to me.

Just pop next door for some sugar!

Archeron

Pighead wrote:

Archeron just to let you know, if you're planning on including the Taj Mahals gardens they measure 320 m × 300 m. You might want to ask your neighbours/local council for permission. Pigheads sure it'll be fine though, the rose and daffodil sections of the garden are supposed to be out of this world.

Thanks for the heads up there Pighead. Luckily there's one of those scary werewolfesque abandoned fields behond my house, so I'll try and pop it in there. If anyone queries it, they'll just get the standard response of "yes, of course thats always been there, dont tell me you havent noticed it before" as I throw my eyes to heaven.

Seemed to work relatively okay when we moved the Chrysler building to Kinnegad for those few months in 1983.

magick

replease the spire with the Eiffel Tower

humanji

Is it possible to have landmarks that are gone now? I'd like the Colossus of Rhodes stradling Dublin Bay. Failing that, a section of the Great Wall of Chine placed around Bayside to keep out the mongols!

Beruthiel

I would like the Alcazar from Seville down the back of my garden.
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Pighead

humanji wrote:

Is it possible to have landmarks that are gone now? I'd like the Colossus of Rhodes stradling Dublin Bay. Failing that, a section of the Great Wall of Chine placed around Bayside to keep out the mongols!

Of course its not possible. That would drag the thread into the realms of fantasy.

Nalz

Id like Burger King, Old Trafford and any airport in the world for Carlow please

monkeyfudge

Beruthiel wrote:

I would like the Alcazar from Seville down the back of my garden.
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I've been to Seville like 5 times and I missed getting to that place every time.

I'd travel back in time 2 years and take the Dublin Wax Museum when it was at it's peak.

Tar.Aldarion

That wall yoke that was in Berlin.

Heisenberg.

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Nalz

The Scientist wrote:

Cork is Perfect the way it is!:D

now where have I heard that before?

Pighead

The Scientist wrote:

I would'nt move anything. Cork is Perfect the way it is!:D


*Waits for abuse....*


T.Sc.

Perhaps this island should be laid down just off the South Coast of Cork.
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cournioni

The Great Wall of China, to stop those Monaghan feckers from coming in.

BossArky

Clonmel could do with the London Eye overlooking the Suir.

Pighead

PORNAPSTER wrote:

The Great Wall of China, to stop those Monaghan feckers from coming in.

Nah that seems like too much effort, just scatter a few of your Cavan "women" around the borders. That should be more than enough to frighten the Monaghan lads away.

cournioni

Pighead wrote:

Nah that seems like too much effort, just scatter a few of your Cavan "women" around the borders. That should be more than enough to frighten the Monaghan lads away.

True, Monaghan lads love teh cock.

Seth Brundle

PORNAPSTER wrote:

True, Monaghan lads love teh cock.

That would explain the high rates of bestiality up there!

5starpool

I'd take Las Vegas and plonk it down near me. That way you get minuature versions of loads of landmarks and loads of slutty women too as well as all the gambling one could shake a number of sticks at.

Pighead

5starpool wrote:

I'd take Las Vegas and plonk it down near me. That way you get minuature versions of loads of landmarks and loads of slutty women too as well as all the gambling one could shake a number of sticks at.

Was gonna suggest Vegas for Phibsboro but then Pighead remembered we have Dr Quirkeys Emporium already.

mike65

Viaduc de Millau viaduct crossing the Suir above Waterford would look good. I'd like the Millenium Wheel thing on the south quays and Gaudis fantastic Cathedral placed on the north quay.

Mike.

Pighead

mike65 wrote:

Viaduc de Millau viaduct crossing the Suir above Waterford would look good. I'd like the Millenium Wheel thing on the south quays and Gaudis fantastic Cathedral placed on the north quay.

Mike.

Wow that is one magnificent viaduct. Every town needs one of those. Not too sure about the Gaudi cathedral though. Pigheads realising where the origins of the word "Gaudy" come from now.

Heisenberg.

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Red Hand

Slap the Grand Canyan into Dublin...or the other way around, actually.

Perhaps Mt Everest as a companion mountain of Carrantouhill?

Ruu_Old

The Sears Tower next to my house, think of the fun. Up and down in the elevator anytime you want, hours of fun.

biko

I'd put the Spanish Steps (Rome) down at the Spanish Arch and also the Grand Bazaar (Istanbul) next to St Nicholas church.