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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823232" data-attributes="member: 53455">One of the funniest one-liners I’ve ever heard in a movie was in Ocean’s Eleven, when Elliott Gould’s character, Las Vegas’s casino owner Reuben Tischkoff, makes a passing reference to “the Leaning Tower of Pizza”... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite18" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL    :ROFLMAO:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /> No one onscreen seems to notice, and I’m convinced millions of spectators never batted an eyelash... which says a lot about the level of general knowledge and culture people have nowadays... It didn’t make them laugh because they had no clue.But as it is definitely not the case of this forum, I am happy to show you, as my photo of the day, a picture of the “Campus” of Pisa (with just one “s”) showing the famous tower, completed in 1372. The tower was closed for consolidation works between 1990 and 2001. Its leaning maximum was in 1993 when it passed the 5-degree marker, but has been straightening ever since. One day, if it continues like that, it may even not be leaning at all, which would be, I suppose, disastrous for tourism... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Nikon D3S, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR II lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]409321[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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