Expat names for statues.

[ryuneko]

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The Lonely Planet humorously notes the "names" of statues that expats have changed.

I would like to submit a new name for the statue of Satpaev, the great Russian Scientist. This statue is located in Pavlodar Kazakhstan to the side of a 3-way intersection.

My Name: "Branch Manager" .

Anyone got other interesting or funny entries ????
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Comments

[fi]

Ireland, and particularly Dublin, has got to be the top of the league for renaming monuments and statues.

There's the "Tart with the Cart" (a statue of Molly Malone at the top of Grafton Street, Dublin), the "Floozy in the Jacuzzi" (the Anna Livia statue and fountain on O'Connell Street), and the "Nail in the Pale"/"Spire in the Mire" (the new Milennium Spire on O'Connell Street).

Then there was the ill-fated clock that was once submerged under the river Liffey, counting down until the year 2000. it stopped well in advance of that date, but was known as the "Time in the Slime".

[ruadh1888]

The Floozy is gone, well, at least she's gone from O'Connell Street. IIRC Birmingham, England has one as well.

In Dublin there's also "The Hags with the Bags" near the Ha'penny Bridge, and for the Spire I prefer "The Stiletto in the Ghetto".

[fi]

Both of which I had heard, but forgotten all about! I knew I was leaving something out!

Yes, the Floozy made way for the "redevelopment" of O'Connell St... One wonders where she ended up!

[ruadh1888]

Somewhere in the southside but I can't remember off the top of my head.

Reading Berkshire UK

[dyfferent]

There's the Maiwand Lion, a statue of a lion that has the nickname of 'the unfortunate lion.' It was made anatomically incorrect in the legs, to the sculptor's shame; there's a story that he committed suicide after being told about his error (I have been told that the legs were cast in a position such that a real four-legged animal would be unable to support itself and would fall over; someone else told me the lion has his leg-joints in the wrong places. In any case, the legs have been made wrong in some way).

In some photographs, from the correct angle, its foreleg and shoulder resemble a massive veiny cock next to its mane.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011022213218/http://www.blandy.co.uk/index.html

This archived version of a local law office's site shows that angle of the lion as its background (they've since changed their page when this was pointed out).

[rjshook]

I can't saw for certain what the original names are and the expat names are more descriptive than funny but here the coffee pot roundabout in Al Ain, UAE: