It has been a slow day on The Green Man today, well stationary actually. Doesn't it get up your nose when paid work get's in the way of your other activities? Never mind. Here is a little something I stumbled across that you can spend an idle minute or two on.
I have been to America a couple of times and my general opinion is that it is a nice enough place if somewhat bland, compared to, say Mexico or Guatemala. Clearly, however, I have been visiting the wrong bits.
The Conspiracy Museum in Dallas, Texas, where else? Whilst the assasination of JFK gets pride of place of course but there is also plenty of other material There is enough information to keep even your most devoted conspiracy theorist going for months. To remember you trip there why not buy a JFK salt shaker, the salt comes out of a whole in the back of the head, how tasteful.
Or how about "World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things" in Lucas, Kansas. It contains a little stonehenge, the pyramids, you get the idea. It is mobile though, in a truck so you might not find it there at the moment.
And if little things aren't your scene how about big dinosaurs and scarry ones at that, if this image is anything to go by, at the Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota.
You can find out about all these things and more at Roadside America, your guide to the wacky side of the American pysche.
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