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[Archangel]

The Big Fat Greedy Banker (of the south)

What sculpture should be the south's equivalent of 'The Angel' ??

An Albanian plumber?

[Dow Jones]

£ 100 note

DA wrote:
A large statue of a £50 note. Northerners will flock to London to see something they have never seen before or are ever likely to see in the future !
DJ Comment:
However, there is a £ 100 Scottish note, of which I've seen quite a few circulating in Edinburgh. Maybe SB can confirm

[Bod]

I'm from Swansea - does that make me a Southerner?

Bloody Westerners.....

I'm from Leeds but lived most of my life in Dorset. I guess that makes me a southern nonce but with Yorkshire grit flowing in my veins

[Platypus]

What sculpture should be the south's equivalent of 'The Angel' ??

A sculpture of someone who does not work in the public sector?

[bogeyman]

You don't understand, we hate all southerners, not just the upper class mincers

I'm from Swansea - does that make me a Southerner?

[Sausage Surprise]

God. For a region that almost defined the English working classes, the North East as become a festering pool of resentment and class hatred.

You don't understand, we hate all southerners, not just the upper class mincers

[bogeyman]

Blimey - so much Northern chippiness

God. For a region that almost defined the English working classes, the North East as become a festering pool of resentment and class hatred.

[Sausage Surprise]

A statue of a limp wristed nonce wearing a man bag.

[Bod]

Are you offering to be the model for this sculpture

It has to be a 50m Arf'ur Daley statue, with a huge pink neon sign:

"Do not accept a 'free' lunch or puppy-viewings from this man"

and of course a loudspeaker blaring "I could be so good for you...."

[DodgyAgent]

A supercilious buckle-wearing gel-haired nonce that can't hold his beer, with a Marks & Spencer's Sushi takeaway in his briefcase stood atop a mound of dung meant to symbolically represent London..

Are you offering to be the model for this sculpture SB?

[shaunbhoy]

A supercilious buckle-wearing gel-haired nonce that can't hold his beer, with a Marks & Spencer's Sushi takeaway in his briefcase stood atop a mound of dung meant to symbolically represent London..

[ThomasSoerensen]

A slim person not eating a deep fried Mars bar

[basshead]

Sorry,

Does "The Angel of the North" have some local significance then?

I thought it was just the design that was in the guys head at the time.

tim

The hilltop site is important and has the feeling of being a megalithic mound. When you think of the mining that was done underneath the site, there is a poetic resonance. Men worked beneath the surface in the dark. Now in the light, there is a celebration of this industry. The face will not have individual features. The effect of the piece is in the alertness, the awareness of space and the gesture of the wings - they are not flat, they're about 3.5 degrees forward and give a sense of embrace. The most important thing is that this is a collaborative venture. We are evolving a collective work from the firms of the North East and the best engineers in the world.

[tim123]

A bloody great wall that runs from the Bristol Channel to the Thames Estuary

but that would be south of Oxford

tim

[tim123]

Sorry,

Does "The Angel of the North" have some local significance then?

I thought it was just the design that was in the guys head at the time.

tim