Making America Grate Again

A large wooden sculpture that strongly resembles Donald Trump was erected this week in Slovenia, birth-place of Trump’s wife Melania, though its designer says it is meant to represent the Statue of Liberty, not the U.S. president (I’m guessing he has never seen a picture of the Statue).

Tom Schlegl’s 8-metre statue is in the village of Sela, north of the capital Ljubljana, and depicts ~~The Donald~~ a man with blond hair and an KIHJLDW25BHINAYREWYWAUKRP4 angry expression, wearing a blue suit, white shirt and long red tie. His right arm is raised with a clenched fist.

“I designed the statue because people have forgotten what the Statue of Liberty stands for. I want to alert people to the rise of populism and it would be difficult to find a bigger populist in this world than Donald Trump,” Schlegl said.

Schlegl added that he was unconcerned that most people see his statue as representing MAGA-man.

The local architect said he had got the idea for the statue after a wooden sculpture of Melania was inaugurated near her hometown of Sevnica by U.S. artist Brad Downey a couple of months ago.

The Sela statue, erected by volunteers, can only remain in its current location for two months and then a new home must be found for it, Schlegl said.

Maybe it could feature in a Greenland “Burning Man” festival?

Top that #5

OK. It's impressive but there are probably easier ways to get the kids to stop demanding an ice-cream. — OK. It’s impressive but there are probably easier ways to get the kids to stop demanding yet more ice-cream.

Top that #4

Eventually the Police Dept had to remove this one after a series of complaints from outrages mothers; but not before they had managed to arrest 17 drunks for attempted sexual battery. — Eventually the Police Dept had to remove this one after a series of complaints from outraged mothers; but not before they had managed to arrest 17 drunks for attempted sexual battery.

Welcome

After the vandalism the citizens of Milan decided to leave the "Hand of Friendhship" as it was, since it now better reflected how they truly felt about tourists, especially those from Rome. — After the vandalism the citizens of Milan decided to leave the “Hand of Friendhship” as it was, since it now better reflected how they truly felt about tourists, especially those from Rome.

Graffiti, the payback…..

"Let's see if "Karen loves Mick" after this you little prick...." — “Let’s see if “Kevin Rules!” after this, you little prick….”

Shhhhh….

You never know who's listening (but it's probably the NSA). — You never know who’s listening (but it’s probably the NSA).

Just another day at the office #253

As a petty sneak thief, Ted had always really wanted to join the "big time," & now it looked like he might have really pulled-off something of a coup! — As a petty sneak thief, Ted had always really wanted to join the “big time,” & now it looked like he might have really pulled-off something of a coup!

View from a Rhino House: “did you hare the one about the statue?”

The shiny, nine-metre sculpture of Madiba (Nelson Mandela) in Pretoria is proudly touted as the biggest statue of the late South African leader* in the world. It also has a tiny, barely visible feature: a bronze, sculpted hare tucked inside the statue’s left ear.

Disconcerted government officials want the miniature squatter removed from the statue, which was unveiled outside the government complex in the capital, the day after Madiba’s funeral. The Department of Arts & Culture said it did not know the two sculptors, Andre Prinsloo & Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, had added the figure, said to be a discreet signature on their work.

The bronze hare, sitting & with one floppy ear, is about half the height of the ear canal.

“It doesn’t belong there,” said government spokesman Mogomotsi Mogodiri. “The statue should represent what everyone in South Africa is proud of.”

His department said in a statement that they are discussing “how best to retain the integrity of the monument without causing any visible damage or disfigurement”.

Or in English, “How to pull the damned hare out of the ear without screwing-up the statue.”

*& All -round “good guy” once the media had decided he wasn’t a terrorist after all.

Word spreads fast about the violent attack on the dignity of the ANC.

View from a Rhino House: mummy knows best.

For months, curators at a museum at Manchester in the UK have been wondering why an ancient Egyptian statue in a sealed display cabinet had been rotating on its glass shelf, without any outside assistance.

As is usual with anything old, Egyptian & vaguely related to the dead, there were claims that it was cursed by an Egyptian god, or that the spirit of its owner had entered the statue, causing it to shudder. Others put forward more expansive explanations, suggesting that an alien-generated magnetic field was behind the statue’s movements (amongst other things).

Prosaically, a British engineer has now solved the riddle, discovering that tiny vibrations from passing traffic & footsteps from passersby & museum visitors were causing the 3,800-year-old stone figure to rotate.

“The statue was spinning due to vibration of the display case,” a spokesman for the museum said yesterday. “We installed an accelerometer & found that vibrations from both road traffic & footsteps outside & within the museum, were the cause.”

It seems that the 25 cm statue was off-balance & especially susceptible to vibrations.

“With an object of such hard material on a glass shelf, the level of friction between the two materials is very low. It doesn’t take a lot to make it move,” the spokesman said.

The statue, of a man called Neb-Senu, was an offering to Osiris, ancient Egyptian god of the dead & ruler of the underworld.

I shall sleep easier now.