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Subject: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 16 Jan 01 - 11:30 AM That invaluable purveyor of strange news items, BBC online, tells me that multicoloured moose sculptures (lifesize) from a Toronto public art exhibit are being auctioned off. What a boon for those many short-sighted hunters who pepper each other each year. Perhaps Rick ought to have one (or its head) on the wall of his new summerhouse practice room? RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: Rick Fielding Date: 16 Jan 01 - 11:52 AM Roger, you can have ALL the friggin' moose(s)! We're so sick of lookin' at them on every downtown corner, we hope they just disappear. Everyone of them has been decorated by individual corporations to give a "cutsey" look. Somehow a brightly painted fibreglass moose, with a little plaque saying "sponsored by ACME Finance Co." tends to get up the noses of some of our homeless and street people....they've ripped the antlers off most of them! Now if each one of them had a little trap door where somebody who's freezing to death could crawl inside and get warm....... Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: mousethief Date: 16 Jan 01 - 12:09 PM How much warmth is there inside a fiberglass moose? |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,Rana Date: 16 Jan 01 - 12:28 PM It's amazing isn't it - back in Brum for almost 3 weeks over xmas/new year and not a word of anything on Canada in the media, however the moose makes it over there in next to no time. Rana |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,Rana (again) Date: 16 Jan 01 - 12:30 PM Just thought though, now they are demolishing the Bull Ring in Birmingham, maybe a whole load of fibreglass bulls could be dotted over there having escaped from the site. Rana |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 16 Jan 01 - 12:34 PM Rana, you should have worn antlers and had yourself spray-painted in psychodelic colours and BBC Midlands would have met you at the airport! Get Steve Parkes to tell you about the Milton Keynes cows! City bosses the world over have strange ideas! We get a "beach" in the centre of Bracknell each summer for the kids to pee in , er I mean play in, while their parents shop! Tara RtS |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: Mrrzy Date: 16 Jan 01 - 01:24 PM I'd assume a LOT of warmth inside a fiberglass moose, out of the wind, with your own internal furnace running at 100 degrees (or a little under, if you're Normal)... I think thats a great idea! But - are they really hollow? |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Jan 01 - 01:28 PM Skiff, I'm less worried about a moose or two than I am about you being on the loose. Some of this stuff you seem to acquire would suggest you need to take a break from your job at the Center and admit yourself instead. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: mousethief Date: 16 Jan 01 - 01:35 PM Is fiberglass a good insulator? I'd be afraid you'd radiate all your heat right to the outside of the moose, where the wind would whip it away, thus making the moose a huge radiator, and cooling off (and killing) the person inside just that much more quickly and efficiently. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,John Leeder Date: 16 Jan 01 - 02:04 PM Curious. In Calgary we had a similar project with cows. There was no outrage and (to my knowledge) no vandalism. Is this a difference between cows and moose, or between Calgary and Toronto? |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: Troll Date: 16 Jan 01 - 02:10 PM yes. troll |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: mousethief Date: 16 Jan 01 - 02:13 PM They did the same thing in St. Paul, Minnesota with Snoopy statues. St. Paul wins. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: R! Date: 16 Jan 01 - 02:21 PM Not so fast. Providence, RI wins hands down with its Mr Potato Head statuary. Apparently city fathers thought that Mr Potato Head, having originally sprouted in that fair city, would project a fun image and bring in tourists by the trainload. Hope you had a chance to view it. Reen |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 16 Jan 01 - 02:38 PM Thank you, 'Spaw. As a reward for your concern for my mental health I will spare you the URL of a site that allegedly has a collection of rhymes about diarrhea. The sample that was quoted was: When you're laying in the bed And you feel something spread Diarrhea, pfft pfft, diarrhea Well that's how it was spelled. Rts (Nurse, the screens!) [actually it gave a URL as www.liquid-poop.com which doesn't seem to exist]. |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Jan 01 - 03:08 PM A site like that is worth finding........and if you eliminate the hyphen you come up with The Mudcat Songbook of Poopdom............LOCATED HERE!!! Happy to help Skiff. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 16 Jan 01 - 03:14 PM Thanks, Boss, (I must stop reading The Bookseller -this was in a list of proposed books allegedly sent to a publisher by hopeful authors) Somehow I thought you'd like it! RtS (standing downwind with no naked flame) |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 17 Jan 01 - 05:52 AM THis is terrible thread creep, but on the grounds that if 'Spaw liked the last link he might like this... Also from those fine people at BBC Online: Flushed with pride Toilet museum flush with lottery cash A £1m lottery grant for a toilet museum is creating a bit of a stink. The Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke-on-Trent has secured the money plus an additional £350,000 from the European Union for what it calls a "celebration of the toilet". Visitors will be reminded what life was like in the days before the much maligned but completely indispensable WC. The display, which goes on permanent exhibition in August, will include the reconstruction of stinking Victorian latrines, including "authentic" smells created from special chemicals. The museum is on the site of the most complete surviving example of a typical North Staffordshire Victorian pottery factory. The money will be used to restore the Grade II listed building and provide a permanent space for more than 2,000 different exhibits. What became the modern day toilet was invented by Sir John Harrington, who published a pamphlet in the 16th Century called the "Metamorphosis of Ajax". Ajax was a pun on jakes, slang even then for toilets. He presented the first flushing toilet to his godmother, Queen Elizabeth 1, in 1594. The invention of the modern toilet is attributed to one man, the appropriately named Sir Thomas Crapper. He is credited with inventing the u-bend and the flushing toilet in the 1860s, but, according to museum officer Angela Lee, he was nothing other than a "brilliant self-publicist" who patented but did not invent many of the original designs. Neither does the four letter word in common circulation derive from his name. 'Hilarious coincidence' She said: "It was already widely used in America. It was brought to Britain by Americans during the First World War who thought it was an hilarious coincidence when they saw the name on British toilets". The Flushed with Pride exhibition has a serious purpose. The Stoke area is still regarded as a world-leader in ceramic manufacturing and some of the world's best known toilet manufacturers are based in the area, including Twyford, Armitage Shanks and Doulton. The sanitary ware industry employs 2,500 people around Stoke-on-Trent. Modern sanitation has also saved millions of lives in the last 150 years. Local MP Bill Cash has welcomed the museum despite initial reservations. "At first I thought it was a joke, more lottery money wasted on a zany exhibition. "Ceramic manufacturing is one of the few remaining indigenous industries left in Britain and I will support this exhibition if it promotes the value, benefits and quality of British ceramic sanitary ware." The National Lottery Heritage Fund said the grant was part of their policy to "preserve and tell the story of our national industrial heritage".
(c) BBC News Online
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: Steve Parkes Date: 17 Jan 01 - 12:22 PM Imagine for a moment that you're a sculptor or other practitioner of the Plastic Arts. You struggle to sell your creations, while trying to hold down a boring tedious job in order to pay the rent, feed the kids, or whatever. One day, out of the blue, you get a call from the Milton Keynes Developmnet Agency. "Who?" you wittily respond. MKDC: We are creating a New City, built with people, not planners, in mind. You: Oh. MKDC: Yes, and we thought that what a really people-friendly New City needs is Public Art, and plenty of it. You: Er, yes ... MKDC: And we got your name from a mutual friend, who said you're very good at that kind of thing. You: Oh, er, jolly good! MKDC: So how'd you feel about, oh, say, some life-size model animals, since we'll be building largely in the countryside? You know, make it look less ... urban, more sort of ... rural. Of course, we'd pay the going rate. And it would be in all the papers! And so the first piece of Public Art in MK is conceived; and what happens? People take the piss out of your babies, non-stop, for twenty-five years, that's what! I ask you, is this fair? is this any way to treat a sensitive, hard-working creative young woman (I think), who is trying to make the world a Better Place To Live In and keep body and soul together at the same time? Come to Milton Keynes;see the bloody concrete cows; then ask yourself what facetiousness achieves and creativity doesn't! Steve (going for a lie-down now) |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: mousethief Date: 17 Jan 01 - 12:25 PM Snoopy vs. Mr. Potato Head? (Or Potatoe Head if you're Dan Quayle) Like there is any contest? Puh-leeze. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: Wolfgang Date: 17 Jan 01 - 02:24 PM Am I the only one who is reminded by the thread title of that old joke:
An Englishman wants to go to the South of France with his wife and goes to the rail ticket office in Paris and says: Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: Steve Parkes Date: 19 Jan 01 - 03:14 AM Is that the same guy who went to Cornwall the year before? He said "Two to Looe" and the ticket clerk said "Ta-ta". |
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Subject: RE: BS: There's a moose (or two) loose... From: Little Neophyte Date: 27 Jan 01 - 01:27 PM I was given an opportunity to see a different side to this corporate moose revenue generating venture. They build the mooses near where I live. I have watch the moose making production since it began. I've watched artist come and go at the moose factory. These guys look like they could use a good square meal themselves. It seems to me they sure do appreciate being employed doing artwork. I've never seen a bunch of happier artist. They are always laughing and horsing around. All kinds of artist come and go and it makes me feel good to know the city is supporting them with some sort of income. Bonnie |