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- MiltonWaddams, on 10/10/2007, -0/+49Personally, I think it's kind of cool. Probably in a kids park or something. Certainly not staggeringly incomprehensible.
- Gadren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+36I like this statue better (maybe NSFW?):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29903410@N00/44616925/ - masonreloaded, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21How does a picture of a random statue make the front page? Its an innocuous statue of two kids playing leapfrog. Thats not news or even interesting - the "man kicking and throwing babies" statue further up is a more digg-like image for sure
- 10001110101, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Where does the back story come from? All I see is the pic.
- HunterTV, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Dugg in anticipation of archeologist's expressions when they find it 10,000 years from now.
- MusicalGenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Well, if someone thinks it's absurd or incomprehensible then either they are stupid or haven't been around enough children. Kids don't think the way adults do...
When a toddler stands on my knee while I'm sitting down and has NO REGARD for the bubble in my 'personal area' and can crush the little dignity my testicles once had with his foot as so many kids tend to do... then as a man you realize. CHILDREN don't think things like this... and even then... HOW many people have played the frog game? I certainly did and most people do. There is nothing absurd but the idiot thinking this picture is incomprehensible. I don't really consider it a monument either, but whatever. - iamanalog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Turtle Boy FTW! http://www.flickr.com/photos/hrwworcester/166846283/
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Or NAMBLA
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Two boys playing leap-frog. One kneeling and the other jumping over him. Looks like made in cast metal. No biggie. Kind of well done, actually.
- Pilot85, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Ahh, baby kicking, the great Norwegian past time!
- jbink303, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Pardon the comment abuse. Here's a better link:
http://i13.tinypic.com/4l91442.jpg - ahecht, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8That statue is quite tame compared to the "Boy Having Sex with a Surprised Turtle" statue (a.k.a TurtleBoy) in Worcester, MA:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=818973942&size=o - blackolive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I figure it's worth $500 or so. It's nice but not worth big money.
- proton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Buried for no backstory, although submitter makes lots of assumptions about one.
- spucky, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7What the hell? It's just leap frog. It shows kids playing together and having fun. They used to be able to do that without being convicted of a felony. What the hell have we become?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Crappy statue.
They should have erected a sold gold statue of Digg'em!! - AileenFaced, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I can see dedicating a statue to the prowess and honor of leap frog. It is, after all, a harrowing sport...especially if you're the shortest kid playing. :D
- shibbz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6A very similar statue on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont.
http://www.linkvermont.com/townsvill/burlington_lakechamplain/images/burlington_churchstreet_sculpture_750h.jpg - DS513, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I like turtles!
- unangst, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Here's the picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Town_square_monument11.individual.jpg - miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Now THAT is incomprehensible.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5What's so strange about it?
- imomushi8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4yea. i was impressed by the unique title of "staggeringly incomprehensible" (and no use of "EVER" or "AMAZING")
...and then i saw the pic and was thoroughly disappointed.
children playing. cool. moving on... - wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"Town with limited resources decides to commission a monument. Civic centerpiece. Big money, taxpayer $. Statue can commemorate anything--great events, people, achievements. This is the result. (A local laughing-stock.) Only most residents aren ’t laughing & Mayor may want to re-think his fantasy of running for Governor."
Source: description. - dranire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Doesn't work you jackass.
- griz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Are the submitters comments opinion or from an article. If so, where is the article? Next time post a link to that, not to a pic on your blog.
- valis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Whiner.
- bouche, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It was probably submitted a repressed nerd who thinks that this is what doggy style is, or even a blow job.
- WaterDragon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Another statue story ( from NYC) :
A few years ago, someone from the UN Society of Writers commissioned some artists to make a large bronze statue, to be placed in a park on First Avenue, just a little south of the United Nations buildings.
The artists had a live African elephant sedated, and they made a cast of its body, which they would later use to make the life-sized bronze statue.
As it happened, the elephant was a male. When the statue was unveiled, it included, in bronze, the large, extended penis of this gigantic creature, prominently hanging down.
Many people were freaked out by this...so eventually some bushes were strategically planted around the statue, to hide it. - fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://bayimg.com/OAFeFaAbb
Not that strange, really. - tehWyman, on 08/19/2009, -4/+6Don't you think they could have thought of a better statue idea?
- ICANSTANDIT, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3It's a statue, people! Of two boys having fun. Not sitting at computers trying to create humorless comments of things they can't begin to understand! Unless you've ever played leap frog. Which I doubt. Maybe with your bedpost or a Unicorn?
- sarazen, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Another Mr. Baby Man?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I agree. It's called leapfrog, people.
- 1310nm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2These things are everywhere in a town nearby. Creepy! http://cityofowasso.com/timmy_and_cindy/TandCBrochure.pdf
- forthegift, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Think it's funny. You're going to create a statue and, of all the possibles, you do it of leap froggers, in the town center? It is crazy. The caption also makes it. Clever IMO. On questions of, where's the backstory, it's obvious, I think. All towns around me don't have a lot of money, schools need every cent, other services, and if a Mayor decided to commission a big statue and it turned out to be this, there'd be an uproar. An effing statue honoring leap froggers? You'd have to be out of your mind....
- Automatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Big deal, bad public art. No digg.
- haydesigner, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The material used in the statue alone would most likely be more than $500 (plus the sculptor probably had to buy time somewhere to smelt too).
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Somebody actually paid money for that :-/
- nestafett, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2whats the point of this? theres no story and the description just says that people are upset, why? who the f cares? if it cost 10,000$ then its a scandal, maybe. but its a small town that apperantly doesnt like a small statue? why should I care?
- imomushi8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1whats your point?
i read the description. i dont see anything "Staggeringly incomprehensible, absurd" nor am i saying "WTF." - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1500? yeah right probably more than that.
- Matt174e, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Are you sure that's the one? Seems pretty normal to me...
- sieeegel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1another one at the StLouis zoo... http://www.flickr.com/photos/whipartist/57197957/
- MalDON, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Uhh, we have these types of statues everywhere around socal. Geesh, you guys don't get out much do you?
- tjmasco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"I will consume you"
- Goatmonkey48, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2And hes famous for.... kicking babies?
- gback2000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3This is probably the most staggeringly incomprehensible absurd submission I have seen on Digg. I could see it making it to the front page if the Mayor of the town is a republican and he or she diverted funds to pay for the statue instead of fixing a local bridge. That would be comprehensible to me.
- SixesJones, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It reminds me of an episode of "Oz".
- pixelbasic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Buried for blog spam. BS description. No story. Plenty of Ads.
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