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VANITY -- King Tut Exhibit a waste of time (though not of money)
Posted on 06/27/2005 11:01:22 AM PDT by Jubal Harshaw
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To: Jubal Harshaw
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:14:31 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(Before I give you the benefit of my reply, I'd like to know what we're talking about.)
To: Jubal Harshaw
Just another failed culture.
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:16:56 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
To: Jubal Harshaw
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:17:22 AM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
To: Disambiguator
Born in Arizona, ...
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:17:52 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: Jubal Harshaw
Tutmania? Not the Tut, but an incredible simulation.
To: Jubal Harshaw
Thanks for the report. I had seriously thought about arranging some time to go see the exhibit when it got to a city closer to me. I've always been fascinated by the Pharaohs.
I was very pregnant when the original Tut exhibit came to New Orleans so I wasn't able to go then.
To: Jubal Harshaw
Wonder why they didn't exhibit all the things they did in the 70's?
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:20:51 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: Jubal Harshaw
That is the only culture in LA right now.
Is it better than going to the Getty and looking at 3 paintings on a huge empty wall?
To: Sally'sConcerns
That is where I saw it, in NO.
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:22:13 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: LIConFem
...raised in Babylonia...
Funky Tut!
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:26:04 AM PDT
by
Wally_Kalbacken
(Seldom right, but never in doubt.)
To: BurbankKarl
Is it better than going to the Getty and looking at 3 paintings on a huge empty wall? No. If you can do only one or the other, you are better off going to the Getty than to the Tut exhibit. I say that as someone who'se been to the Getty many many times, and for whom the novelty of the Getty has worn off.
To: Jubal Harshaw
I'm going to a private party there tomorrow night. It'll be fun even if the exhibit sucks.
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:31:51 AM PDT
by
eddie65
To: eastforker
I believe one of the artifacts broke/cracked during the original tour and they were very afraid of risking anything this time. It was very controversial about whether to even have another tour. I guess, in the true spirit of compromise, a group of 14 moderate Egyptians arranged for this deal....some things got to make the trip, just not anything anyone really wants to see.
To: Sally'sConcerns
If you are still in New Orleans, you might want to check out the Faberge egg collection in the New Orleans Museum in City Park. If you can only do one or the other, and if all other things are equal, I'd go to the Tut exhibit over the Faberge exhibit, but if you have to rearrange your schedule to see Tut, I'd see the Faberge exhibit.
To: Jubal Harshaw
The famous gold bust of Tut? Not there. Tut's sarcophagus? Not there. The famous lion bed? Not there. I wonder if any of his black relatives know where these items are :-)
To: Jubal Harshaw
What's the difference between this and 3,000 years from now someone digging up my body and putting it on display in a museum? A bigger tomb?
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:38:31 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Jubal Harshaw
I'd love to see the Faberge exhibit also but not enough to travel from NE Ok to New Orleans. I lived in Houston when the Tut exhibit came to New Orleans, all of my female in-laws arranged a trip there to see the exhibit and left me at home.
To: eddie65
Watch out. Those private parties with Eqyptian mummies always turn out bad ---
Either the Joker shows up -OR-
Some drunk/security guard/drunk security guard accidently opens up a scarab beetle case, releasing the soul of the pharoah, bent on revenge.
To: Jubal Harshaw
I saw the Ramses the Great exhibit and the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in Dallas. My opinion of each was the same as yours.
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posted on
06/27/2005 11:50:24 AM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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