[RightWhale]

It should have been returned long ago. It needs to be in the lightning-free zone where it was for 3000 years, not up in Europe with it's wild weather patterns.

[another cricket]

You have never been in a desert storm have you?

a.cricket

[John Locke]

Returned, yes - but to Egypt, where it rightfully belongs. The obelisk was erected by Pharaoh Tutmoses III of the 18th Dynasty. It is one of a pair; the other is in the Hippodrome at Constantinople.