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] Date Posted: 16:45:17 12/04/04 Sat In reply to: Trixta (UK) 's message, "Official Secret" on 14:47:05 12/04/04 Sat Somehow I doubt that it is an official secret... notwithstanding the fact that my place in London is practically at the bottom of it, and I regularly pass underneath it without seeing a single mean-looking security guard, it is true that for years one could go to the revolving restaurant in the top. I do not think that this is true of the MI6 building at Vauxhall! I went up there just before it was closed, and, while I was admittedly very young at the time, I do not recall seeing on the menus the legends "This bill of fare will self-destruct in five seconds" or, "remember: be sure not to tell your friends where you ate today"... Having said that, when they switch on the x-thousand gigawatt military searchlights on the top to test them, the bloody thing can light up the skies above the capital to the extent that it hardly seems like night-time. There's some pretty mean equipment in that edifice. Oh, and p.s., no true Londoner would ever call it the BT Tower or Telecom Tower. It is the Post Office Tower, whatever the overpayed electricians at BT may say. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |