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Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:44 pm**

London has taken a step closer to erecting a statue of Nelson Mandela. Which figures would you like to see perched on a plinth in Glasgow?

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:55 pm**

Field Marshall Shug wrote:London has taken a step closer to erecting a statue of Nelson Mandela. Which figures would you like to see perched on a plinth in Glasgow?

Izzat afore ur efter thur died?

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:01 pm**

I think both the living and the dead can be elligable because Mandela and Thatcher are alive (Thatcher in theory anyway) and both have or soon will have statues.

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:09 pm**

Ivor Cutler.

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:41 pm**

Ivor Biggun

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:06 pm**

Alex Harvey!

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:21 pm**

HollowHorn wrote:Ivor Biggun

You're a winker!

Posted: **Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:58 pm**

Chief Constable Percy Sillitoe - The finest polis to ever beat up the neds.

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA05304

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:08 am**

Lenny Bruce..The finest comic that Scotland never produced

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:33 am**

Blueboy wrote:Chief Constable Percy Sillitoe - The finest polis to ever beat up the neds.

http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA05304

Agreed, although probably the very reason he wouldn't be picked. GCC can't condone neds getting the shit kicked out of them, can they ? ::):

And he introduced the first checkered polis hats.

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:35 am**

I've always thought Mandela is proof that prison works! He's never re-offended since he got out, has he?

As for a statue, the obvious choice is me (all pretty-faced and starry-eyed that I am)! But being a bit of a humble sort i'd go for Billy Connolly. Not because of any "He's the best thing Glasgow's ever made" reason. I just think a half-decent large statue of him might be a better tourist attraction than some of the more localised ideas. The statue needs to have some sort of positive benefit for the city. Tourists might actually make the effort to "go and see" Connolly as opposed to even Glaswegians wandering past it (Cutler, Sillitoe, etc) wondering "Who the f**k is that?".

PK

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:55 pm**

Field Marshall Shug wrote: Which figures would you like to see perched on a plinth in Glasgow?

Mary Barbour

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:33 pm**

Ken Manners ??????

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:57 pm**

I'd go for Bishop Lamberton from the Wallace/ Bruce days, although there is probably already one. Is there a Charles Rennie MacKintosh statue?

Posted: **Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:27 pm**

CRM doesn't need a statue - he has monuments!

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