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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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.
Very droll an amusing post.
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
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.
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?
Best bridge in the world
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
That is amazing, Helen. An Edward Lutyens seat with a sperm motif. I want one!
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