A game: Guess the cost of this fountain...

[JaggedEdge]

Well did the university build it or did they commission an artist? If they paid an artist it would be expensive. In the millions. Let's say $2.5 million.

No, three Mexicans worked on it for a little under a year. I'm almost certain it was a local contract job.

[iNHALE.xHALE.]

actually one one of my friends had commented me on it over the weekend..and then i cheated

[JaggedEdge]

lol, I'm sorry, but there was a secret $1,000 prize for the closest guess. However since you have admitted to cheating you must forfeit said prize.

Just out of curiosity, where is your friend from who mentioned it? I'm curious how folks from other areas feel about this. I'm rather annoyed at the whole situation for a number of reasons.

The University is very proud of their work though and seem to think it was a quarter-million well spent.

[IThinkIamFeelingit]

I am gonna guss about 250k...projects like that always tend to be a little more expensive with the manual labor and all involved.

[JaggedEdge]

inhale beat you to it, but you were off by only 5,000

[iNHALE.xHALE.]

no!!!!!!

well fuck it--

my boy eddie is from SLU he was here over the weekend though & it was more of a comment on the fountain because everyone was discussing Katrina

[JaggedEdge]

ahhh... I was just wondering how hard they were promoting it.

If he were from another state, I was going to be shocked that anyone outside even knew about it.

[NextLineIsMine]

Im just thinking of their thought process behind this... A huge tragedy happened a while back, why dont we build ourselves memorial to feel better about it instead of donating like everyone else

[LIP]

In the paper a few months ago they had an article about a hospital [England] that spent £70,000 on a ROCK - just a ROCK to go outside the front entrance.