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Cholmondley_Warner Sep 29th, 2009 02:04 AM

think of the shrinkage!

cynthia_booker Sep 29th, 2009 08:41 PM

Naked lady on the plinth. Thinks she is Lady Godiva. She has a horse with her.
And Intellicast says it is 61F.
At least she has boots on.

janisj Sep 29th, 2009 09:06 PM

She is a really pretty girl (the last nekkid woman I saw should have left her clothes on ;) )

After she got off the horse and finished her dialog w/ the guy in dreds, the cameraman did a long slow pan from the boots on up - cheeky devil!

The poor guy following her -- TOUGH act to follow. She was the first I've seen who did the whole thing sans clothing -- including the rides up and back down in the cherry picker . . .

stokebailey Sep 30th, 2009 07:16 AM

The camera work has gotten more interesting, I think. They have to amuse themselves somehow during those long hours of observing people reading or talking on mobile phones.

janisj Oct 2nd, 2009 09:26 AM

OMG - not a pretty sight >:-)

janisj Oct 2nd, 2009 09:42 AM

Oh - thank goodness. He put some clothes on. A rugby strip I think. Maybe a first - start naked and finish clothed . . .

cynthia_booker Oct 2nd, 2009 07:30 PM

Did C_W get picked after all? He seems rather pleased with himself and he has a football!
Oct. 2, 6:00 P.M. in case you are interested.

cynthia_booker Oct 2nd, 2009 09:04 PM

So why do some of the plinthers get naked? This guy did not seem to do it for sexual reasons. I understand that for some it is part of a performance, but I really wonder about the motivation for someone like this.

avalon Oct 3rd, 2009 12:33 AM

How come all I ever see is people talking on their phones when I visit. Though there is a guy dancing and waving a flag around noe

Cholmondley_Warner Oct 3rd, 2009 06:16 AM

Did C_W get picked after all? >>>

Sadly not.

PatrickLondon Oct 10th, 2009 01:09 AM

As it draws towards its close, here's one round-up with some more examples:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesi...afalgar-square

alya Oct 11th, 2009 09:57 PM

"Cholmondley_Warner on Oct 3, 09 at 10:16 AM

Did C_W get picked after all? >>>

Sadly not."

I bet that even if you'd been chosen that you wouldn't have give us the nod so we could check you out :)

Cholmondley_Warner Oct 13th, 2009 04:27 AM

Oh but I would. My plan was that peeps from this and another few message boards could send me messages which I would write down and display in a Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues style.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PedxiosPF8U

Oh well.....

stokebailey Oct 13th, 2009 06:35 AM

Interesting roundup, Patrick.

Apres_Londee Oct 13th, 2009 02:18 PM

Woman was wearing a tee-shirt and droning on about foster parents plan. Good intentions but boring. Then she went to take off her tee-shirt and I thought maybe things were going to get interesting.

Wrong. She just had another tee-shirt on under the first one. And now she's droning on about fair trade.

She's lulling the drunks to sleep. They're probably all curled up like babies on the square.

Apres_Londee Oct 13th, 2009 02:47 PM

>>>My plan was that peeps from this and another few message boards could send me messages which I would write down and display in a Bob Dylan Subterranean Homesick Blues style<<<

Then your cards would have stuff like "Please explain how the Oyster system works"; "Is London safe?"; "I need a room for 5 people in a centrally located, luxury boutique hotel for under $100 US per night"; "Wicked or Jersey Boys?"; and "The British Museum- is it worth it?"

stokebailey Oct 14th, 2009 12:49 PM

Good one, Apres_.

(What are the answers to those questions, anyway? I'm always on the verge of asking.)

nevcha1109 Oct 14th, 2009 03:03 PM

The " Plinthing" stopped today at 9am (BST) after 2400 plinthers over 100 days. There was a bit of a celebration in Trafalgar Square.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle6874457.ece

Apres_Londee Oct 14th, 2009 03:38 PM

Good question stoke. I definitely can't help with the Oyster cards because I don't have an advanced degree in algebra nor calculus. It actually would have been helpful to have C_W holding those signs up on the square- maybe we would have gotten some definitive answers.

Farewell plinthers. We hardly knew ye.

Cholmondley_Warner Oct 15th, 2009 04:26 AM

OK here we go on the Questions:

"Please explain how the Oyster system works";

No.

The Oyster Card question is even harder to understand than dark matter or the Schleswig Holstein Question of which it was said by Palmerston:
“The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.”

"Is London safe?";

No. Stay at home. Get shot there. We can only beat you up, and who wants that?

"I need a room for 5 people in a centrally located, luxury boutique hotel for under $100 US per night"

There is a way of doing this but it involves being young and pretty and prepared for letting others have a go on your dangly bits.

; "Wicked or Jersey Boys?";

Neither. Go and see a proper play you Philistine

and "The British Museum- is it worth it?"

Oh God yes. We are the bestest thieves ever ever.

Simples.


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