Statues are boring.

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[snorri]

[QUOTE 2812278, member: 1314"]Memorials need to be engaging, they need kids to play on them, they need to be playfully owned by the public. Like this – my fave statue in the UK, now so iconic it’s even on the tourist trail![/quote]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/video-spoof-film-shows-how-2800138
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[swee'pea99]

The thing that's always amused me about Mount Rushmore is the choice of Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln - unquestionable Titans of American history - and Theodore Roosevelt...an also-ran if ever there was one, but recent, which tends to be crucial in such matters. (I'm old enough to recall when Bridge Over Troubled Water was invariably The Best Single Ever In The Entire History Of The World.)

 

[Fnaar]

Churchill's grass mohican was mildly amusing, if somewhat disrespectful imho (May Day 2000)

 

[Yellow Fang]

How much does a statue cost? Do you think it would be outré to commission one of myself?

 

[numbnuts]

I don't think much of statues, they don't say angthing

 

[snorri]

I don't think much of statues, they don't say angthing

Oh yes they do, well some do.
Check the talkingstatues.com website

 

[Spinney]

This one isn't too bad...

 

[broadway]

Cones help

 

[Fnaar]

At least Ireland has ones that move now and again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_statues

 

[glasgowcyclist]

[QUOTE 2812278, member: 1314"]
Memorials need to be engaging, they need kids to play on them, they need to be playfully owned by the public. Like this – my fave statue in the UK, now so iconic it’s even on the tourist trail!

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A few weeks ago there was this report that the council was considering spending £65,000 to raise the plinth and add other measures to prevent people from placing a cone on the Duke's head.

The justification for this was that removing the cone cost £100 a time 100 times a year. The simple answer eluded them; don't remove it. The cone-adorned statue is recognised worldwide and has long been a tourist feature of the city.

They also underestimate the determination of a drunk Glaswegian.

GC

 

[Crackle]

St George's hall lions. When I was 10 I used to sit in their paws waiting for the bus home to appear and then scramble down and jump on the back platform as it was leaving, normally to be told off by the conductor.

 

[asterix]

The thing that's always amused me about Mount Rushmore is the choice of Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln - unquestionable Titans of American history - and Theodore Roosevelt...an also-ran if ever there was one, but recent, which tends to be crucial in such matters. (I'm old enough to recall when Bridge Over Troubled Water was invariably The Best Single Ever In The Entire History Of The World.)

Yes, Franklin D. Rooselvelt would have been far better had they but known! But really why spoil a perfectly good mountain?

 

[London Female]

I used climb on this one in Crystal Palace park when I was a kid then go and look at the Dinosaur Park

 

[Andrew_Culture]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtQ6mZoFCu0