Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#2
Re-siting the giant telly there would be an improvement
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#3
oh nooooooooooooo i would ba able to see that from my house.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#4
philip,if they resited the big tv and put that monsterous effort into the market square whos going to clean up the crap it would leave behind.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#5
Perhaps they could put Watt Tyler in the saddle waving a flat-cap and crying aloud, "hey-ho gold (reserves) away!"
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#6
It's funny isn't it? If they're not putting giant tellies in the most awkward of places which lower the tone (not that difficult to do) then they want to blight our countryside with either wind turbines or giant metal horses.
Haven't they seen the angel of the north?
Far better idea to construct a giant dinosaur instead as a testament to the years of neglect in Dover.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#7
"The Kent Invicta statue will not only provide a powerful reminder of the county of Kent's rich and proud heritage, and its vitally important role as the gateway to Britain, but it can also provide inspiration for future generations, serving as a symbol for ambition, optimism and self belief."
If only.
Roger
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
It's a giant donkey on the side of a hill !
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#9
The "gateway to Britain" idea brings pictures of a doormat or of an arrow (pointing out of and away from...) to mind.
Why not something that could bring the county together?
A series of concave listening structures, similar to the ones on the coast, so that the people of Kent (of the whole of Britain?) could 'talk' to one-another?
An Amphitheatre? Somewhere for Philips TV screen?
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DT1- Location: Dover
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#10
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#11
Why not, Darren(?). [I recall that the bones of other exotics have been dug up around the SE.]
And in the local teams colours too.
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
Building that would be a mammoth task, DT1.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#13
Tsk, Tsk, such cynicism.
I wonder if it would affect tv reception in Capel
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#14
good for the roses though.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#15
A white elephant indeed Darren.
Roger
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
Is that a trunk road going past it?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
i don't think there are any more elephant jokes left, i can't think of any.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#18
All together now -
To Bombay a travelling circus came
They brought an intelligent elephant
and Nellie was her name
One dark night she slipped her iron chain,
and off she ran to Hindustan
and was never seen again
oooooooooooooooooo...
[Chorus:]
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
and said goodbye to the circus
off she rode with a trumpety trump
trump trump trump
Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
and trundled off to the jungle
off she rode with a trumpety trump
trump trump trump
Night by night she danced to the circus band
When Nellie was leading the big parade
she looked so proud and grand
No more tricks for Nellie to perform
They taught her how to take a bow
and she took the crowd by storm
oooooooooooooooooo...
[Chorus x2]
The head of the heard was calling far far away
they met one night in silver light
on the road to Mandalay
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#19
here is said lady, i question whether a statue like this has the gravitas to raise the profile of dover though.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#20
Would be a lot more fun than a white horse
