Comments on: Untitled Post https://glendalarke.com/2006/12/true-story-about-2-years-back/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/12/true-story-about-2-years-back/#comment-24313 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:40:00 +0000 #comment-24313 Satima, you mean Sandakan doesn’t have the world’s only lobster? Sigh.

Hurgaar – I would hate to think that anyone paid a quarter of a million ringgit(forget about pounds sterling) for ALL of Malaysia’s roundabout sculptures put together…

“Um, oh, something to do with bed bugs I think, dear.”

]]> By: Satima Flavell https://glendalarke.com/2006/12/true-story-about-2-years-back/#comment-24312 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:25:00 +0000 #comment-24312 This seems to be a universal circummillenial (geez, did I just invent that word? And if not, did I spell it correctly?) phenomenon. At Kingston, not far from Mount Gambier where I now live, there is a giant lobster. It is not beautiful. It is not, IMHO (but what would I know?) artistic in any way. And it’s supposed to attract tourists…

]]> By: hrugaar https://glendalarke.com/2006/12/true-story-about-2-years-back/#comment-24311 Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:11:00 +0000 #comment-24311 Ooh, ooh, we have big ugly statues too, though ours are more ‘arty’ than naturalistic (if one can call an 8′ pineapple naturalistic la). We also have a steam clock that looks like it fell off the back of a Mississippi steamboat, go figure.

Our magic number for any State commissioned piece of ‘public art’ seems to be quarter of a million pounds. Some artists must be laughing all the way to the bank.

One year our main shopping precinct was filled wih life-sized statues of cows, painted by different people – we had purple cows, cows with glittering gold stars, retro 1970s psychedelic cows, even one with a human foot or two instead of hooves. They were meant to be auctioned off at the end of the tourist season to raise funds, but I don’t think that went too well…

And then we have the huge toad sitting atop a granite pillar inscribed with an historical list of statutory crimes and punishments, at a place where (I understand) people were one once publicly flogged. Mummy, what does ‘buggery’ mean?

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