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(London Times) Spiffy Public invited to take turns on top of a fourteen-foot high plinth in London's Trafalgar Square for an hour. Exhibits expected to include "Hey watch this," "Wheeeee" and "compound fracture of the tibia,"   (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk) divider line 27
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Monkeypillow 2008-06-22 01:07:55 AM  
You had me at Public invited to take turns on top of a fourteen-

 
doglover [TotalFark] 2008-06-22 01:08:58 AM  
WHAAA!?
Girls can fracture their tibias!?

 
Dolamite02 2008-06-22 01:10:24 AM  
So it goes.

 
Dihnekis 2008-06-22 01:16:59 AM  
Wtf is a plinth?

 
basilbrush 2008-06-22 01:17:41 AM  
Monkeypillow: You had me at Public invited to take turns on top of a fourteen-


me too, just about to book a flight to London.

/ just kidddding Mr Hanson.

 
ricodued 2008-06-22 01:17:54 AM  
poopalacarte: Plinth?

/yeth?
//srsly wtf's a plinth?


"In architecture, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests."

 
MadCat221 2008-06-22 01:19:20 AM  
To all those asking what a Plinth is...

WAKE UP, YOU'RE ON THE INTERNET. Look for yourselves. It's but a GIS away.

 
CCCarnie 2008-06-22 01:20:55 AM  
ricodued: poopalacarte: Plinth?

/yeth?
//srsly wtf's a plinth?

"In architecture, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests."


Now you know! And knowing is part of a G.I. Joe quote!

 
dobro 2008-06-22 01:27:17 AM  
'plinth' (sic) spelled 'plynth' (at least in America where we spell everything correctly), is the base of a statue. A 'prndl' is the thing on automatic transmission cars that tells you what gear you are in in case you weren't paying attention when you moved the lever. Not that anyone asked.

 
StopArrestingMe [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-22 01:31:21 AM  
Exhibits expected to include "Hey watch this," "Wheeeee" and "compound fracture of the tibia,"

Well don't keep me hanging. How does the sentence conclude?

 
wildcardjack 2008-06-22 01:31:41 AM  
FTA The plinth, originally intended for an equestrian statue of William IV, had been empty for more than 150 years after it was built in 1841.

www.london.gov.uk

It's pretty substantial, it's not like standing on top of a pole.

 
SpacePunk 2008-06-22 01:32:18 AM  
'Plinth'? WTF, Don't these people speak english?

 
StopArrestingMe [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-22 01:32:21 AM  
Also

www.americanrhetoric.com

"What is a plinth?"

 
PennyCentury 2008-06-22 01:38:58 AM  
Grayson Perry?

 
Joker you diabolical... 2008-06-22 01:42:27 AM  
www.jewishjournal.com

 
No Catchy Nickname 2008-06-22 01:44:52 AM  
I liked the idea of statues of meerkats. With a whole load more plinths, that would look really funny.

 
Mary Hinges 2008-06-22 01:56:12 AM  
The person with the most pigeon crap on them at the end of their hour wins a prize. Dry-cleaning vouchers.

 
creepy jackalope eye 2008-06-22 02:02:07 AM  
The plinth is not edible.

 
swfan80 2008-06-22 02:05:05 AM  
anybody else certain that at least one person will start fapping it up there

 
FarkinNortherner [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-06-22 02:10:04 AM  
You and Darwin are going to be sadly disappointed when you see a picture of it, submitter.

 
ElwoodCuse 2008-06-22 02:11:58 AM  
Joker you diabolical... Quote 2008-06-22 01:42:27 AM

PAINT MY FENCE!

 
WrongTrousers 2008-06-22 03:12:05 AM  
ricodued: poopalacarte: Plinth?

/yeth?
//srsly wtf's a plinth?

"In architecture, a plinth is the base or platform upon which a column, pedestal, statue, monument, or structure rests."


Ah, now I thee.

 
brantgoose 2008-06-22 03:42:12 AM  
What are they doing? Playing Saint Simon says?

 
brantgoose 2008-06-22 03:46:38 AM  
I was tempted to explain the joke but I said "Vade retro Sathani" and the temptation passed like Saint Antony's dinner of wild carrots--slowly and painfully.


/ Saint Simon Stylites, or the Stylite, who lived on a pillar for 37 years and spent his time bobbing up and down in prayer: In Mark Twain's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, the Yankee hooks Saint Simon up to a sewing machine, IIRC.

You have to love the Old Heathen.

 
thaduke 2008-06-22 04:34:57 AM  
brantgoose

Perhaps you should take a lesson from the Vitae of the Desert Fathers and not post when you've been fasting for 15 days...

 
Highway 2008-06-22 04:52:27 AM  
ElwoodCuse 2008-06-22 02:11:58 AM
Joker you diabolical... Quote 2008-06-22 01:42:27 AM

PAINT MY FENCE!


THOSE BLINTZES WERE TERRIBLE!

/blintzes or blintz's?

 
Benjimin_Dover 2008-06-22 10:00:59 AM  
16ft by 8ft platform

It is big enough to have a party on. WTF?

 
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