[BITList] A HORSE

[HUGH]

A statue of a horse has just been erected here, in Greenock, and the local paper, the Greenock Telegraph, has a photo of it - and it looks very nice, and no doubt was quite expensive, as statues tend to be. Fair enough, it's a horse, and there's nobody on top of it, whereas the horse on a plinth in front of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow has the Duke of Wellington sitting on it, more often than not with a red traffic cone on his head. Some of those and such as those object to such frivolity as traffic cones on dukes' heads, even bronze dukes, and the Police have been known to get them taken down, but it's not unknown for well known people to refuse to have their photie took in front of the statue unless the cone is in place. But I digress.  The Greenock horse photo comes with a short article, and we learn that the horse (it's called Ginger) "represent's Inverclyde's industrial past and future regeneration".  A councillor said of it, "The scupture is a striking link between our rich and prosperous past and the future we are striving for. ..... I am sure Ginger will strike a chord with everyone who sees him."  Our rich and prosperous past was mainly shipbuilding, marine engineering, sugar refining, brewing, rope making, canvas and linen weaving, and computers.  Am I missing something?

Hugh.
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