You know they ran out of money half-way through building the Washington Monument?
Thus the change in colour of the stone partway up. Which led a friend of mine who worked in the National Park Service's White House unit to tell tourists (jokingly) that it was a high-tide mark from floods. Until he realized that some people were stupid enough to buy that, so he had to stop using the joke. :-)
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Date: 2005-04-27 07:17 am (UTC)Thus the change in colour of the stone partway up. Which led a friend of mine who worked in the National Park Service's White House unit to tell tourists (jokingly) that it was a high-tide mark from floods. Until he realized that some people were stupid enough to buy that, so he had to stop using the joke. :-)