Tag: Easter Island heads

‘There’ll Always Be an England’ (Really?)

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Renowned sculptor Luke Perry is putting the finishing touches to his latest piece, 'Strength of the Hijab', which has been commissioned to give visibility to women who wear hijabs as they are largely underrepresented. Believed to be the first sculpture in the world of a woman in a hijab, the …

The city of Birmingham, England, wanted a statue; so they hired some guy to sculpt one, and he’s come up with… oh, call it what you will: a 16-foot tall statue of a woman wearing a hijab. He calls it “The Strength of the Hijab.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/16-foot-statue-of-hijab-wearing-woman-to-be-unveiled-in-suburb-of-multicultural-birmingham/

Why does this look to me like the memorials left by a defunct civilization–those huge stone heads on Easter Island?

Ahu Tongariki Moai Easter Island Rapa Nui Isla de Pascua Ahu Tongariki Statue - The Traveling Moai - Easter Island Moai Statue. The so called 'Travelling Moai', has wandered the most of any Moai on the island. It has been to Japan for a World Fair and has been used in 'walking' experiments by Thor Heyerdahl to determine how the inhabitants originally moved the Moai. Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui National Park, Hanga Roa, Easter Island, Isla de Pascua, Polynesia, Chile, Oceania easter island head stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Can you see the resemblance?

But it reminds me even more of that ghastly “temple” in The Time Machine (1960)–it’s where the Eloi go to be eaten by the Morlocks.

SciFi East and West: Film Stills: The Time Machine

Wow! Did special effects wizard George Pal have a crystal ball? Look how close he came to the monstrosity we have now.

Is England about to become the subject of a fire sale (“Everything must go!”)? Will it still be here by the year 2100?

They have to stop doin’ what they’re doin’.

Can We Have Our Plot Back? (‘Oy, Rodney’)

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Ask Sister Mary Martha

Author Violet Crepuscular has been busy grading the Oy, Rodney Genius Quiz. Actually, not that busy–only four people, world-wide, bothered to take it. And none of them passed.

“This makes me lachrymose,” she complains. “It will be all I can do to introduce Chapter CDLXXXXVIII of my epic romance, Oy, Rodney!”

The reader will remember (or not) that Lord Jeremy, under duress applied by Constable Chumley’s mother, Sir Lanthelot the Lithping Knight–bear in mind that the woman is somewhat tetched–has discovered a landscape riddled with Easter Island heads. Like these. Just like these.

Easter Island statues: One mystery solved by researchers | CNN Travel

You’d think any author would jump right in and set about explaining what those heads were doing there–but not the Queen of Suspense. She introduces Chapter CDLXXXXVIII with a recipe for prawns in toothpaste sauce, followed by this:

“Can Lady Margo Cargo be true to Lord Jeremy Coldsore and still love the American adventurer, Willis Twombley–when she is not aware that they are two different people. Three, if you count Twombley’s conviction that he is Sargon of Akkad. This is phloxidation with a vengeance!” Feel free to skip the rest if you know what that means.

If not, please sign my petition to Ms. Crepuscular demanding an explanation of the Easter Island heads. (Yes, I know she’ll say “My readers are revolting!”) We must take a firm line here, or she’ll end up subjecting us to chess puns (“Prawn to King-4!”).

An Astounding Discovery! (‘Oy, Rodney’)

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In Chapter CDLXXXXVI (dig those Roman numerals! no wonder they didn’t have a space program) of her epic romance, Oy, Rodney, Violet Crepuscular repeats her assertion that Constable Chumley’s mother, disguised as Thir Lanthelot the Lithping Knight, has fallen passionately and ostentatiously in love with Lord Jeremy Coldsore.

“I Inthitht you come to my cathtle for a vithit!” she declaims. Her gestures with the lance persuade Jeremy to go along.

“I notice you don’t speak in the same quaint rural dialect your son uses.” Jeremy is trying to make conversation. Constable Chumley’s mother violently hushes him.

“Thhhh! I’m lotht! Can’t find the cathtle!”

Before the discussion can ripen into something really stultifying, the wanderers make an astounding discover.

Why Some Easter Island Statues Are Where They Are - Scientific American

Easter Island heads–right there in Scurveyshire!

“Put that in yer pipe and smoke it!” Ms. Crepuscular gloats. “Never saw that coming, didja? And now you have to read next week’s installment to find out how the stone heads got there!”

[The management apologizes for the author’s seeming hostility toward her own readers. “She has been under a great deal of stress lately, planning to drive out to Easter Island or at least take the ferry. It’s my job to tell here there is no ferry to Easter Island. You think you’ve got troubles!”]