Several California and Florida businessmen plan to clone Dracula by digging up the body of Vlad the Imapler and extracting his DNA. In addition, Vlad's hometown of Sighisora wants to open "Dracula Land". Here's a quote from the article:
"Dracula tourists visiting Romania buy T-shirts, postcards, paintings and ceramic figures," Reuters says. Imagine putting a handsome Vlad the Impaler ceramic in your cabinet and waking up to find all your Precious Moments figurines are bleeding from the neck and looking at you with the raw hunger of the walking undead.When I visited Dracula's castle in 1999, I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of tourism. Who wants to promote a guy who skinned and boiled people alive? I'm not sure even Disney could make Vlad the Impaler kid-friendly. Perhaps Tim Rice and Phil Collins could write a song together: "And caaaaaan you feeeeel the staaaake tonight...." (Link from metafilter)
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