Except for the golden retrievers who would then get their exercise by swimming (unleashed) in the bowl. Of course, the only harm a golden retriever has ever done to anyone is by drowning them in slobber.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UC] Free Mill Creek!!! It would solve the dog problem ... In a message dated 3/5/2004 10:47:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And instead of soccer, FOCP could run a water polo program? > > -----Original Message----- > From: William H. Magill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:34 AM > To: University City List > Subject: [UC] Free Mill Creek!!! > > > On 04 Mar, 2004, at 22:36, Anthony West wrote: > > > You yuppies can go out in the country and hick all you wanna. For > > > me, Clark Park is still an adequate urban adventure. > > > > We have been thinking of installing a waterfall for you, Ross. We > > would pump it up from the Mill Creek sewer. > > Why can't Clark Park have a "Fountain" like Rittenhouse Square? > > After all, all you need to do is to drive a stake into the bottom of > the bowl and it will fill up again... It was a lake, you know. > > If we let it fill all the way up, we could have our own "Nessie and > Nell" tourist attraction! (Think of the increase in community jobs > related to this new business.) > > Way cool dude. Just imagine > > ... it would finally eliminate the basketball courts, because the > noise would frighten Nessie (an endangered Species). > > ... building a "viewing blind" where the paparazzi can set-up their > cameras and wait for the elusive shape to hove into view. (And maybe > an adjacent "bowl-wheel" where one could rise above the skyline and > enjoy the sites of the city from afar.) > > ... running periodic "scientific" diving excursions through the bowels > of the bowl looking for that most elusive of all sightings - a giant > Philadelphia Eel. (These could be run by the Scouts, Larry.) > > ... having occasional re-enactments of the arrival of William Penn on > the Dragon Boat Welcome. (A rigged tall ship would be simply copying > Baltimore.) > > ... we could have an annual "crossing the bowl" Triathlon using > Concrete Canoes vs Claw-foot bathtubs. The contestants have to portage > their bathtubs from the start at 42nd and Chester Avenue to the bowl. > (What ever happened to the bathtub races anyway?) > > ... these contestants would navigate a course outlined with flaming > pyres in water. (Go visit Providence RI if you don't know that I'm > talking about.) > > ... bringing tourists into the area on the revitalized Woodside Park > Trolley! (Maybe even all the way from South Philadelphia and Chestnut > Hill.) > > ... and on Samhain or Imbolc we could hold a "Bonfire Festival" which > would include "dragging the bowl for bodies." > > And most important ... this is all about reclaiming the Watershed and > freeing Mill Creek from its years of servitude and bondage. We must > force the City to separate the sanitary and storm sewers so that Mill > Creek can run Free Again! > > This proposal would also have a tremendous multiplier effect. By > having Clark Park and the Mill Creek stream bed declared an Keystone > Opportunity Zone, we would create at least 2000 jobs! > > Oh the possibilities! > The mind boggles at the Joys a simple Water Feature would provide to > Clark Park! > > (Over to you Ross.) > > T.T.F.N. > William H. Magill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
