Comments on: Big-Ass Statues

By: ShaunyP

ShaunyP — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:09:07 +0000

I personally think the statue would be great. And to you missy, if Europe is so great go live there you filthy anti-American, Communist, Hippie. I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free. Be proud or go live in France where Democracy is hated.

By: HILLARY

HILLARY — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:45:27 +0000

OK…I just got back from Europe…home of beautiful architecture and impressive monuments and I just received word that in my home town of Tulsa we are constructing a big ass statue of and Indian that will end up being taller than the statue of Liberty. I personally find this very humiliating because I already get a lot of flack from people because I am from Oklahoma, and apparently other people in the world still think that we drive covered wagons and have cowboy and indian fights on the range. So all I want to know is why in the hell we are trying to make our state stand out even more by sticking a big ass statue of an Indian right on top of it. I mean we already have a big ass driller and big ass set of praying hands what more could you ask for?

By: BlondeSense

BlondeSense — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:53:36 +0000

I live in NY and typical of most New Yorkers, I have never been to the Statue of Liberty. I was on a drinking cruise one night when I was in college and I went out on the deck for some air and there it was right in front of me: The Statue of Liberty. It was huge! I toasted her and that was the closest I ever got to it again.

Post more pictures of big statues. I loved them. We don’t have that here except for Liberty which you can only see on clear days if you are near the shore. I think it’s closer to NJ but we won’t talk about that.

By: dAnimal

dAnimal — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 02:00:50 +0000

I forgot to close my parenthetical comment with a parenthesis. I suck.

By: dAnimal

dAnimal — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:59:44 +0000

Another comment–I think Texas needs a big big statue, right across highway 40 from the “biggest cross in the western hemisphere.”

My statue would be a giant demon drawn in a cartoony Kim Deitch style, that would dwarf the cross on the other side of the highway. The demon would be looking at the cross and drooling evilly, and would be the color of dingy rust (so that if people tried to graffiti his feet, it would blend in with the decor and only make him look more evil. Anyway, that’s what I would do if I had 100 million dollars.

By: dAnimal

dAnimal — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:47:59 +0000

When I was a kid, one time my family’s van was parked sort-of near ORU, and there was a handprint on our windshield. I asked my daddy what it was, and he told me “it must have been the praying hands.”

So for years afterwards, I thought the praying hands could go underground and come up at will in other parts of the city.

By: Charles Kuffner

Charles Kuffner — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:31:08 +0000

I can’t look at the Oral Roberts hads without being reminded of a joke: One day the hands fall apart. Administrators at Oral Roberts U desperately start soliciting bids to restore them to their original position, but all of the estimates are in the thousands of dollars and will take weeks to do.

Finally, they get a bid for $500.25, which promises same-day service. They can’t believe their luck, so they quickly accept. The bidder uses the $500 to rent a helicopter, which he then flies over the hands. While hovering over the hands, he drops a quarter, and the hands SNAP to a close to grab the falling coin. Problem solved!