See This (http://uk.fc.yahoo.com/050602/46/fkbsi.html)

So Tower bridge gets stuck open. It works OK for over a hundred years and then some idiot decides to couple it up to a computer. :confused:

I mean, how much software do you need for two buttons. One for up and one for down. The mind boggles.

Wow! I will alert Evil Kineval!

Originally posted by Lostrider
See This (http://uk.fc.yahoo.com/050602/46/fkbsi.html)

So London bridge gets stuck open. It works OK for over a hundred years and then some idiot decides to couple it up to a computer. :confused:

I mean, how much software do you need for two buttons. One for up and one for down. The mind boggles.
This isn't the first time this has happened, and I doubt it will be the last....I remember in the summer of '76 the bascules wouldn't close because of the heat...lol

Originally posted by Ann_x
I remember in the summer of '76 the bascules wouldn't close because of the heat...

there's no need to use language like that!:)

Surely you mean Tower Bridge. London Bridge is a concrete bridge which doesn't open.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Surely you mean Tower Bridge. London Bridge is a concrete bridge which doesn't open.


I missed that....lol

Isn't that the reason why the yanks bought the old London Bridge because they thought they were buying Tower Bridge ;)

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Surely you mean Tower Bridge. London Bridge is a concrete bridge which doesn't open.

And isn't in London...

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm

Originally posted by spiffymonkey
And isn't in London...

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/havasu.htm

Just reading the blurb on their website about when and why they bought the bridge. When I was at school I was told that the Americans thought they were buying tower bridge.

Originally posted by alchresearch
Just reading the blurb on their website about when and why they bought the bridge. When I was at school I was told that the Americans thought they were buying tower bridge.
I believe that that is another urban legend which isn't in fact true.

If you go on one of the thames boat trips, which I can heartily recommend, the chirpy cockney sparrow, who does the talk peppers it with loads of daft stories made up by one of his predecessors.

It's really funny watching all the foreign visitors taking the picture of the wrong building as the tour goes along. Of course It's lots of fun to interpret the cockney into english for them and show them where to look..

Oops, of course I mean Tower Bridge. Post edited.