... Thailand... only in Thailand...
Buddhist temple built out of one million beer bottles
A temple has been built by monks in northeast Thailand who used over a million recycled beer bottles to make the walls and roof.
Last Updated: 10:21AM GMT 18 Feb 2009
Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as Wat Lan Kuad or 'the Temple of a Million Bottles', is in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, 400 miles from the capital Bangkok.
The Buddhist monks began collecting bottles in 1984 and they collected so many that they decided to use them as a building material.
They encouraged the local authorities to send them more and they have now created a complex of around 20 buildings using the beer bottles, comprising the main temple over a lake, crematorium, prayer rooms, a hall, water tower, tourist bathrooms and several small bungalows raised off the ground which serve as monks quarters.
The bottles do not lose their colour, provide good lighting and are easy to clean, the men say.
A concrete core is used to strengthen the building and the green bottles are Heineken and the brown ones are the Thai beer Chang.
The monks are so eco-friendly that the mosaics of Buddha are created with recycled beer bottle caps.
Altogether there are about 1.5 million recycled bottles in the temple, and the monks at the temple are intending to reuse even more.
Abbot San Kataboonyo said: "The more bottles we get, the more buildings we make."
The beer bottle temple is now on an approved list of eco-friendly sight-seeing tours in southeast Asia.
Gene Ching
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I found this one for Pepsi. Is this what you all saw?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xig...olin-pepsi_ads
yep that's the one.....it probably changed because I posted this in 2006...
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I was in Wat Po in Bangkok and caught some monks drinking beer and having a little BBQ.
... Thailand... only in Thailand...
Gene Ching
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This was just forwarded to me from Matt Polly.
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nice! but its improper to verb a noun like that. lol
This ad campaign makes no sense to me whatsoever. Nevertheless...
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Gene Ching
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lol skittles vs pai mei
that pai mei needs more kungfu!
For whoso comes amongst many shall one day find that no one man is by so far the mightiest of all.
Greetings,
Never saw this one before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BB9MI_8bsE
Enjoy,
mickey
If you like that one, then you'll love this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWeyboifOfo
...well, soda fountain.
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So good I gotta post this in the the-Kentucky-Fried-Thread too.
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