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| falsedog Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 12/19/2005 2:48:27 PM by falsedog | King Kong posted on: 12/19/2005 2:48:00 PM There is a campaign to bring back to Birmingham the King Kong sculpture by Nicholas Monroe that you may remember from your youth. Back in 1974, the council sought to have it removed from Manzoni gardens (showing the usual tin ear for public opinion). It lived on Deritend for a bit, then moved to an outdoor market near Edinburgh. That market closed recently, and the current owner has said Birmingham can have it back if city councillors offers it a "firm markets pitch" (does that mean "permanent installation in the rag market" or " a lot of money"?). It's easy to picture city councillors muttering that Kong no longer has any social relevance, oblivious to the current international blockbuster, and passing up on the deal once again. Perhaps Bounder should run a BiNS home page campaign story? And where should the KK be situated if it does come back? I suggest on the side of Perrets Folly. It could be marketed as "Peter Jackson World". |
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Gravy Hole
Rank: Oddie This message was updated on 12/19/2005 3:01:46 PM by Gravy Hole |
King Kong
replied on: 12/19/2005 2:55:02 PM I wondered when this one would come up. Fond memories, I was taken to see it aged ten, after a trip to the Odeon to see the new Bond, I think it was Live and Let Die, followed by a nice pizza in Gino's. Gino's was an establishment I was later banned from a mere ten years later for brawling with a drunken German. He had accidentally bumped into me coming out of the bogs and he advised me I was sub-human scum. I pointed out he was a Deutcher untermensch and well, it all kicked off. |
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bounder
chairman of the board Rank: Ozzy |
King Kong
replied on: 12/20/2005 11:41:53 AM  here's Kong now in Edinburgh |
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falsedog
Rank: Jasper |
King Kong
replied on: 12/20/2005 9:48:54 PM They painted him white! |
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m8e
Rank: Ozzy |
King Kong
replied on: 12/20/2005 9:52:30 PM Looks like someone's nicked his sandwich. |
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Ariel HS
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King Kong
replied on: 12/21/2005 11:31:03 PM It would be a great day for brum if he came back to us |
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kingshurstphil
Rank: Toyah |
King Kong
replied on: 12/22/2005 11:08:01 AM can we get the coca cola sign and the clock back because that would be great |
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BrummieExpat
Rank: Jasper |
King Kong
replied on: 12/22/2005 5:42:46 PM Why did they give him nipples but no belly button? I can understand leaving the knob off. And why does he look like an albino? was he ever the proper colour? |
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Ariel HS
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King Kong
replied on: 12/22/2005 10:58:27 PM He would look bostin on top of the Rotunda. |
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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
King Kong
replied on: 12/24/2005 9:29:02 AM I'd like to see him situated in front of Brasso the Bull. It'd look like Mr Kong (I don't believe his monarchy was ever legally or formally recognised) was either reprimanding Mr Brasso (for an ill placed spot of fertiliser, perchance?) or conducting him (to join the Salvation Army in a sweet rendition of away in skull island. That would be funny funny funny. |
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Brad Smith
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King Kong
replied on: 8/3/2006 9:21:14 PM I'm interested in getting a picture of kong...preferably the one posted by "Bounder". Any info would be much appriciated. |
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m8e
Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 8/4/2006 8:30:47 AM by m8e |
King Kong
replied on: 8/4/2006 12:35:31 AM Unless they're going to stick him on top of the Rotunda or the BT Tower, then I think we should just forget about him. Mind you, I'm sure quite a few people would say the same thing about Mitton. |
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kjo
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King Kong
replied on: 8/8/2006 4:08:45 PM This is a follow up to Brad's post. I work with him at an ad agency in Detroit. We wanted to use a picture of some kind of big statue like King Kong or Godzilla in an ad. When we googled "King Kong statue," one of the image choices was the shot on this page. It's really perfect - we can't find anything that we'd rather use. But we need to get in touch with the person who took the picture. Can anyone on here help with that? |
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bounder
chairman of the board Rank: Ozzy |
King Kong
replied on: 8/9/2006 8:52:25 AM have you tried corinne AT staffroom.freeserve.co.uk which appears to be the email address of the person who runs that site? |
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Gravy Hole
Rank: Oddie |
King Kong
replied on: 8/9/2006 10:17:53 AM If I were you I'd just use the photo anyway, they'll never find out about it over here! |
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Bob Owler
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King Kong
replied on: 8/9/2006 12:09:06 PM i found some images of Kong nearer to his original colour - before he "did a Jacko" 
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