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by leper_2000 » Sun May 01, 2005 9:38 am
now that i look at it, its actually a bloke.. woops
i swear the next time that happens im becoming celebate..
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by crusty_bint » Sun May 01, 2005 2:09 pm
Thats Robert Burns in the foreground
silly goose
here i go, it's coming for me through the trees
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by red_kola » Wed May 11, 2005 10:16 am
Vladimir wrote:Kelvingrove
Just round the corner from there and strangely titled "The Palmist"
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by ladylabobo » Tue May 17, 2005 11:43 pm
leper_2000 wrote:teclo wrote:turbozutek wrote:teclo wrote:martin wrote:nodrog wrote:This would be the one you were meaning outside Geology:
You really do have to wonder what was on their mind when they commissioned that one...
I think this may be a Sheela-na-Gig, or at least a modern representation of the old Celtic icon. IE: It's a large stone vulva
In the words of Roy Chubby Brown;
IT'S A FANNY!!!!Chris...
Quite off topic but in Primary school we had a slagging that went, er, something like this....
"Faaaaaaaannnnnneeeeeeepaaaaaaad!!"
aye, from what some guy told us when i went there its a fertility symbol of some sort.. think there may have been a bit about it in the student guardian a couple of years ago but its unlikely to surface as i threw all the crap i had collected from then out a while ago..
I think the article in the guardian may have been a spoof written on something a few arch students came up with one sunny lunchtime:s
The year that i graduated from glasgow uni we all climed thro what we effectionally called the quim as a symbol of our birth into the real world... or some pish like that, most people were drunk at the time... yeah archaeologists really are fun people - honest
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by martin » Sat May 21, 2005 10:07 am
ladylabobo wrote:leper_2000 wrote:aye, from what some guy told us when i went there its a fertility symbol of some sort.. think there may have been a bit about it in the student guardian a couple of years ago but its unlikely to surface as i threw all the crap i had collected from then out a while ago..
I think the article in the guardian may have been a spoof written on something a few arch students came up with one sunny lunchtime:s
It was part of the "Mysteries of the University" strand - the writers popped in and asked the porters, who referred to it as the "doughnut". I seem to remember something about a plaque inside the building which explained what the sculpture was, and what it was doing there..
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by YokerBloke » Wed May 25, 2005 8:47 pm
Excellent shot!
You can see the orginal that occupied the now ugly Ernst & Young building
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by Schiehallion » Wed May 25, 2005 10:40 pm
YokerBloke wrote:Excellent shot!
You can see the orginal that occupied the now ugly Ernst & Young building
Aye a lovely building in its' time. A very old building too featuring in an 1867 photo which means it pre-dates the City Chambers by at least 18 years.
I think I read somewhere it took a hit during the 2nd WW and was never really restored just like the buildings at the corner of Queen St and Ingram St.
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by DickyHart » Thu May 26, 2005 12:02 am
as far as the statue goes its a very good likeness, considering the height and no-one is ever gonna see.
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by YokerBloke » Thu May 26, 2005 5:35 am
When was that shot taken?
The College Building and Printing is already built. Is that scaffolding?, I was wondering what the 'pipe' that seems to run behind the statue was.
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by Schiehallion » Thu May 26, 2005 7:00 pm
Apparently the picture was taken in 1988. The 'pipe' is undoubtedly a rail around a platform - probably a heavy clean or sandblast going on at that time.
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by YokerBloke » Thu May 26, 2005 9:23 pm
So the Ernst & Young building is relatively new then
Christ! that building isn't aging well (if it ever did)
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