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Monday, 16 November 2009

It's how you look at things


Unforeseen design problems on one of London's bridges ... or was it?

I'm checking out Blackfriars Bridge toot sweet. They hang mobsters there. Does that make this a well hung bridge?

Thanks to Claire for this. (Trust you. Arf!) How's that for a superior architectural nob gag?

UPDATE: I should have realised that this motif should be adorning (Prince) ALBERT Bridge. Har, har!
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8 comments:

  1. splinteredsunrise16 November 2009 at 21:42

    Well, it certainly looks like someone involved in building the bridge had some kind of genital fixation... You just reminded me of this story about the famous statue of Neptune in Bologna:

    Then they point to a statue of Neptune, which had its penis shrunk in the 16th century, they claim, after complaints from a convent overlooking the square. The sculptor avenged himself by altering Neptune's finger so that, seen from behind, "it looks like, well, a huge penis".

    Perhaps the sculptor was an ancestor of whoever designed the bridge.

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  2. Paul17 November 2009 at 11:07

    Very droll an amusing post.

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  3. D.B.17 November 2009 at 15:02

    On a rare, fleeting, one-day trip to the nation's capital last month, I noticed this! There I was wandering around with my camera in the glorious Autumn sunshine, trying to get a good vantage point to look at the Houses of Parliament, and suddenly I couldn't help but notice this strange phallic pattern on the pavement ... strangely enough, at first I thought it had been painted onto the ground: cock grafitti en masse

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  4. Madam Miaow17 November 2009 at 17:56

    DB, don't tell me you didn't take a photo of it. That would have given the folks back home a new angle on us degenerate Londoners and pepped up your holiday snaps somewhat.

    Next time ... I expect we'll start to build a nice little collection of these pix.

    Splinty, just goes to show you can't keep a good nob gag down. See, Paul likes 'em.

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  5. VenerableSage17 November 2009 at 18:47

    No wonder John Barrowman can't walk across that bridge on a sunny day without bursting into uncontrollable laughter.

    Who sez architects got no senzayuma?

    I mean, like, WHO?

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  6. claude18 November 2009 at 11:53

    Best bridge in the world

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  7. Helen Highwater23 November 2009 at 11:27

    There's a square in Birmingham which is designed as a kind of paen to fertility. It has nine large globes which signify the 9 months of pregnancy, and then in the railings and the benches a subtle pattern of sperm. Unfortunately, once you see the sperm, you can never un-see them.

    (Pic of one of the benches...)
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2682690409_51c7ac2e40.jpg

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  8. Madam Miaow23 November 2009 at 11:50

    That is amazing, Helen. An Edward Lutyens seat with a sperm motif. I want one!

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