Comments on: Outfits of Evil

By: fústar

fústar — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:04:57 +0000

I’d completely forgotten about the giant warrior figure in the People’s Park. He was continually being ‘de-knobbed’…probably by common or garden vandals hiding behind a cloak of supposed ‘moral outrage’.

As for bronze stag genitals…they make natty paperweights.

By: copernicus

copernicus — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:02:11 +0000

Remember the GIANT warrior figure in the People’s Park years ago that kept getting its knob chopped off, supposedly by outraged citizens? Must be a Limerick thing.

By: Londoner

Londoner — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:29:39 +0000

I recall a long running ‘tug-of-love’ battle fought between law enforcement officers, county officials and a certain nomadic element in a similar Irish case, though on a smaller scale. The ‘tug’ in question was over the extremities of the Cork Stag - a large public sculptor overlooking the Limerick/Cork road. The bronze sculptor was too difficult to shift in full but its huge genitals were constantly being knocked off, sold for scrap, replaced, knocked off, sold for scrap….

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:19:47 +0000

I’m intrigued to know how devo was able to work out the scrap value. Has his career taken a “Steptoe and Son”-esque turn?

By: copernicus

copernicus — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:12:24 +0000

I think the “scrappage” theory is a red herring designed to horrify poncey middle-class types. The usual journalistic standards prevailing. My theory has the advantage of allowing me to use the words “heist” and “ransom” in the same post. How sweet is that?

Perhaps fústar can shed light on why the word “heist” is used to denote what one might term “classy” crimes while “robbery” and “theft” do for the more bogstandard forms of larceny.

Speaking of which, if I was in the meeja and was indulging in sensationalist reporting, I’d have said

“One offender is described as wearing a hooded jacket and one a baseball cap, while their operations were directed by a tall man, slightly graying at the temples in a cravat and smoking jacket”

Maybe something was cast into the bronze. Perhaps a clue to the “sang real”, or a demon exorcised from the teenage daughter of a 1970s industrialist and committed to the sculpture by Moore and a cabal of jesuits.

By: devo

devo — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:27:37 +0000

It’s worth around £5000 if sold for scrap. Apparently. No doubt it’ll turn up at some car boot sale trying to be passed off as a badly cast anvil.

By: copernicus

copernicus — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:16:18 +0000

I think these things are generally nicked to be ransomed back to the insurance company. It’s actually something of an industry. See Munch’s Scream and the various heists from the Beit collection at Russborough House.