Monday, May 16, 2011

Duke of Wellington


Here's another example (sent in by a reader) of the humble cone finding a home in popular culture... "Capping the statue with a traffic cone has become a traditional practise in Glasgow. Claimed to represent the humor of the local population and believed to date back to the first half of the 1980s if not before. The Duke of Wellington statue has had a cone on his head for as long as I can remember. When the cone is removed someone else will just add a cone."

2 comments:

harry said...

thanks for posting my photo.most tourists take a photo of this

Innocent Bystander said...

More cone fun... http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/2262898?UserKey=

There's even a link to a YouTube video that shows absolutely nothing that couldn't be shown in a picture.

Road construction season is about to start around here. I'll have to keep my eyes out for some amusing things that always seem to be done by bored/stuck drivers.