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"Lüko Willms" wrote ...
His design for the public art commission will see a horse standing on
all four hooves at 33 times life-size.
Since it is to be standing on all four hooves, the structure will
also be about 50 meters long or even longer. And wide in the range of
10 meters.
quite a big building.

Will it come with the Greek Army preinstalled, or will that be extra?
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Am Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:32:38 UTC, schrieb "Andrew Heenan"
auf uk.railway :

"Lüko Willms" wrote ...
His design for the public art commission will see a horse standing on
all four hooves at 33 times life-size.
Since it is to be standing on all four hooves, the structure will
also be about 50 meters long or even longer. And wide in the range of
10 meters.
quite a big building.

Will it come with the Greek Army preinstalled, or will that be extra?

One could install elevators in the legs and use the whole thing as a
pedestrian overpass. A solution still looking for a problem...


Cheers,
L.W.

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"DerekF" wrote in message
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"Lüko Willms" wrote in message
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Am Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:32:17 UTC, schrieb Mizter T
auf uk.railway quoting BBC:

His design for the public art commission will see a horse standing on
all four hooves at 33 times life-size.

If the horse is 33 times life size, imagine the quantity of droppings it
will produce...

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Mizter T wrote:
Excerpt from BBC News online...

---quote---
A giant white horse has been chosen as a new £2m art commission for
south east England dubbed "Angel of the South".

White to begin with, no doubt. But how long will it stay white, and who
pays to clean it? It is going to take more than a couple of lads with a
bucket and sponge.

Does it have cleverly-hidden rails for a hanging cleaners' basket (and
how does that work on the overhanging parts)?

Or is this to be a monument to great British flash-in-the-pan-ism - left
gently to grey (or rust?) as a warning to visitors arriving on Eurostar
about the standards of public infrastructure that they should expect in
Britain?

John Geddes

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John Geddes wrote:

But how long will it stay white, and
who pays to clean it? It is going to take more than a couple of lads
with a bucket and sponge.

The seagulls will keep it white for free.

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"John Rowland" wrote in message
...

But how long will it stay white, and
who pays to clean it? It is going to take more than a couple of lads
with a bucket and sponge.

The seagulls will keep it white for free.

Of course - a starling nest!

[the effect of tens of thousands of the little dears can still be seen on
the north end of Crewe station]

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Mizter T wrote:
On 10 Feb, 17:14, Robt P wrote:

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Mizter T wrote:

"The modern day London Eye is a somewhat absurd oversized
bit of a theme park stuck in the middle of central London,
but it's also great. Heck,........"

Foreboding of an accident...?


Nah, definitely not - the thing is totally solid and completely over-
engineered, just as big things like that should be.

Whoosh!

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Mizter T wrote:

I'm sure people will scoff, but my take on it is 'why not?'.

In some parts of the country they put up wind turbines which are useful but
ugly, in other parts of the country they put up giant horses which are
pretty but useless. Can't they cover the horse in slots and put wind
turbines inside it? If the people of Ebbsfleet ended up with something which
is both pretty and useful, it would give them a reason to be proud of it
rather than slightly embarrassed about it.

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On 11 Feb, 10:37, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Nah, definitely not - the thing is totally solid and completely over-
engineered, just as big things like that should be.

Whoosh!

I don't get why Mitzer T brought up Great Heck. Why now?

U

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:59:15 -0000, "Mortimer" wrote:

"DerekF" wrote in message
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"Lüko Willms" wrote in message
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Am Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:32:17 UTC, schrieb Mizter T
auf uk.railway quoting BBC:

His design for the public art commission will see a horse standing on
all four hooves at 33 times life-size.

If the horse is 33 times life size, imagine the quantity of droppings it
will produce...


.....and the size of the rhubarb


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