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2007-01-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Amsterdam to get statue to world's prostitutes

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Been waiting to use that illustration?

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-17 00:55|| 2007-01-17 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 The precise place where the statue will be laid

Posted by Thotle Hupavitch5406 2007-01-17 03:34|| 2007-01-17 03:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Ya beat me to it,TH. It's gotta be hard to lay a bronze statue.

Posted by GK 2007-01-17 05:23|| 2007-01-17 05:23|| Front Page Top

#4 let alone get it up !

Posted by MacNails 2007-01-17 05:26|| 2007-01-17 05:26|| Front Page Top

#5 The statue represents a ~~self-assured~~ drug-addled, shopworn ~~woman~~ junkie, her hands on her hips, looking ~~sideways towards the sky~~ for her next trick and hoping it's not a vice cop or a creep with a knife, and standing on a doorstep.

There. Fixed it for ya.

Posted by Mike 2007-01-17 06:42|| 2007-01-17 06:42|| Front Page Top

#6 This is their enlightened, progressive society?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-17 07:57|| 2007-01-17 07:57|| Front Page Top

#7 A bronze trollop-- I can't think of a better symbol for postmodern Europe than that.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-17 08:35|| 2007-01-17 08:35|| Front Page Top

#8 I suppose it's better than this tribute (scroll down to last item).

Posted by Mike 2007-01-17 12:49|| 2007-01-17 12:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey! It's Jimmy Carter!!

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-17 14:00|| 2007-01-17 14:00|| Front Page Top

#10 "A bronze trollop-- I can't think of a better symbol for postmodern Europe than that."

GOOD ONE! LOL!

Of course, now the PC term is "sex worker," like it's a real job or something.

Posted by ex-lib 2007-01-17 15:38|| 2007-01-17 15:38|| Front Page Top

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