Uglier Than the Pat Tillman Statue

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shameful knockoff.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I'm not so much a hata of the yellow peril mself Jed :) I more thought of it because it seems so hated by everyone here.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

it looks great but i can imagine it might be a bit of a dangerous hidey-hole for unsavoury types. especially in a park.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://p.vtourist.com/2856691-Super_Lamb_Banana_Catch_It_If_You_Can-Liverpool.jpg

The Super Lamb Banana! Some sort of comment on genetic engineering. I think it's kinda cute.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the big nappy pin where Rottenrow Maternity Hospital used to be

Rottenrow is gone? I need to pay attention more.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Rottenrow is the coolest name ever. For today at least.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

You should turn right instead of left at the bottom of the hill some time on the way home from the football (xpost to Onimo)

Wow, I'd forgotten about the Lamb Banana.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I will. I want to see that nappy pin.

The hill up to Rottenrow is like the tramellator, pregnant women be wheezing.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link

travelator, even.

? The thing from Gladiators.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Travelator. They'll be wheezing for nothing when they wheeze up there and find nothing but a great big nappy pin where the hospital used to be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Tribute to 9/11 firefighters. It used to scare the hell out of me at night - I have a fear of gasmasks.

I believe it's a memorial to Glasgow firemen that died attending a fire in Glasgow and has absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:10 (seventeen years ago) link

It was erected before 9/11!

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Was it? Woops, my apologies! I thought it sprung up in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. I've never read the plaque, don't like to get too close in case it grabs me.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The Ccitizen Firefighter: http://www.strathclydefire.org/about/citizen.asp

People left flowers and tributes on it following 9/11.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

This was the first time I saw the statue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1615116.stm

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.urban75.org/photos/newyork/images/ny551.jpg

I know it's ugly but it was also the first "landmark" I ever saw on my first wander around NYC, so I miss it.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

That clock on legs is one of the ugliest statues I've ever seen. Ugh.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 16 November 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Rottenrow is the coolest name ever. For today at least.

-- Kv_nol (kn0l4n8...), November 16th, 2006 5:35 AM. (Kv_nol) (later) (link

It sounds like something Scooby-Doo would say if he was declaring his ignorance about a topic.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottenrow

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the bartholomew might be grotesque, but im not sure we can call it ugly...

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

If someone decided to make a bad statue of you after you die, what would you like it to show you doing?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Carrying my flogged skin, no doubt.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmm, defecating probably.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

It sounds like something Scooby-Doo would say if he was declaring his ignorance about a topic.

OTM!

"Is this your puppy scoob?"
"Rottenrow!"

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/roadside/Metaphor-The-Tree-of-Utah.jpg

I'm pretty sure this is where one of the hardest boss fights takes place in FFVII.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

They erected statues of the Little Rock Nine, the group of black students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol. Last month, someone thought that perhaps the statues were lacking something:

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1383/lr9christmaswa1.jpg

Despite the benefit of the doubt being given to the sentiment behind this act, the decorations were removed by the Secretary of State's office shortly after being discovered.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

This is Nashville's Athena in the Parthenon (supposedly an exact replica). This picture does not do it any justice. It's terrible. The first time I saw it, I screamed, "holy shit!" right in front of the docent.

http://www.nashville.org/Parthenon/Images/AthenaGilded.jpg

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

We also have this:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/06/220px-Dixon_Musica.jpg

It's called "Musica". Scandalous!

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link

This pic is rather large so I'll just put a link:

http://www.agmc.org.au/22-stkilda-town-hall.jpg

This is a baffling statue out the front of St Kilda Town Hall, about 5 mins walk down the road from my place.

Maybe there is some legend story behind it, but I'm not feelin it. WTF is the PLANE there for? If I didn't know any better I'd say the snakes were a metaphor for local council getting into everyone's business and choking it up, ahaha.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link

what a funny bunch of fotos

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the Nashville Parthenon though. I played a show at Springwater once, and going down that street was one of the greatest "WTF?" moments of my life

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The Parthenon (the building) is great. Art museum inside, not so much. But the Athena statue! It defines garish! And you're totally right - it's great to stumble out of the Springwater, and see the Parthenon. It's kind of freakish and wonderful at the same time.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh I have been hearing about the Springwater for years and years and I so want to go...and I have seen Teh Real Parthenon, surely I can make it to the one in TN?@@!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel, OF COURSE you can come see the fake Parthenon and the real Springwater anytime you like! There's an air mattress here with your name on it! (Enticing, eh?)

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/50/143324629_6d39678b87_m.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the snake one is great, especially because the dude seems to be enjoying himself.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah thats another reason why it is so strange! WHAT IS GOING ON IN THAT STATUE.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

What's that city hall building that looks like a Spanish mission?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/06/220px-Dixon_Musica.jpg

Ohhhh Jesaulenko, you beauty!

― hellsarse (hellsarse), Thursday, 18 January 2007 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/361251853_8beb20465a.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/361251858_ce259988b4.jpg

thats in baltimore

there's an uglier one near the harbor but its a polish war memorial (for the katyn forest massacre) so i give it a free pass

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 18 January 2007 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

n/a posted this on noise board, but i feel it deserves a wider audience.

http://edition.cnn.com/US/9607/11/ashe/ashe.mem.large.jpg

ARTHUR ASHE HAS JUST ABOUT HAD IT WITH YOU KIDS!

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I live in Morristown with that seeing eye dog statue. I'm bummed it's so ugly. Morristown is the home of the Seeing Eye, the first training school of its kind. Walking around here, you always see dogs either being trained by the staff or being tried out by potential masters. It's great. They were trying to honor the founder with that statue, and turned out something kind of creepy.

― Bill Magill, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link

lol at arthur ashe statue oh my god.

― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.giantbusts.co.uk/acatalog/SWMACE.png

― and what, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link

I want to see the 9/11 Vadge in person.

― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link

also that one in jersey city, the polish ww2 memorial. unreal-- surprised the gun hasn't been broken off in some way.

also this is the goldmine

http://www.weirdomatic.com/strange-statues.html

― the table is the table, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link

what has arthur ashe got in his right hand? is he pouring beer on the children?

― J0hn D., Monday, 21 January 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link

(yes I know it's a can of tennis balls but I like to think it's beer)

― J0hn D., Monday, 21 January 2008 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link

how did this thread go on so long without Harry Caray ouside Wrigley Field?

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/e2/200px-Harry_Carey.jpg

Detail of the base, or movie still from The Frighteners?

http://www.thestructuralist.com/images/harry2.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link

We could do a Bayonne Ethiopian food and 9/11 vadge FAP

― Hurting 2, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link

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