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 Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 2:16 am Post subject: Ten New Uses for the Power Station Chimneys |
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| Michael Grimes wrote: | Those of you who've lived in Hong Kong for a while may remember Fat Pang - the custard bun-loving last British governor Chris Patten.
Once when he was negotiating with Beijing over the Basic Law, he referred to "The elephant in the room".
What he meant was the thing that was so obvious, so enormous, that bizarrely, no one even acknowledged it - that China was a communist state, and that democratic Britain was negotiating to give Hong Kong to communists.
Well in its own quiet way, the power station is the elephant in LAMMA'S room.
When you first arrive, you can't quite believe it, and after a few weeks you don't even notice it - much.
So with the WTO meeting and the Olympics coming to Hong Kong soon, here are a ten ideas for raising its profile.- Paint the chimneys brilliant white tipped with mottled orange at the top to create the world's biggest cigarette advert. (The Government may have something to say about that though.)
- Paint the towers rich brown to create the world's biggest advert for Pocky chocolate-covered bread sticks. (Hong Kong's dentists and nutritionists may have something to say about that too.)
- Sling netting between the stacks then train Lamma's fast growing creeping plants over it to make the world's biggest gazebo. (Hong Kong's planning authority would probably run an ad on RTHK Radio 3 warning of the dangers of unlicensed horticultural structures.)
- Invite performance artists to cover it in bubble wrap then charge visitors to burst it one pocket at a time. (A great executive stress relief that one, but how would the Clean Hong Kong Campaign feel?)
- Turn it into an airship and blimp port for visiting media and heads of state. (Hong Kong's politicians would LOVE that one).
- Attach a giant hoop to each chimney and invite the tallest players in the US National Basketball League to stage an exhibition match on the roof.
- Convert it to a safe house for defecting North Korean nuclear scientists. The architecture would remind them of home.
- Attach a large LCD display to one chimney to create a giant scrolling text message board for everyone whose mobile phone doesn't work properly on Lamma (3G, you know who you are).
- Fasten baskets of elephant treats to the towers in case Dumbo gets hungry as he flies to and from Disneyland. (That elephant theme again.)
- Turn it into a power station. Oh yes, I forgot.
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Any more new uses?
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