We are a nation strangely obsessed with giant statues. Not monuments like Mount Rushmore or the Statue of Liberty. For the serious statues, we stand aside for our American friends. No we like craziness, we like inane. I don't know the intentions of the creators of Sudbury's Big Nickel or the Wawa Goose or the giant Muskie in Kenora. Who needs a big nickel looming over their town. Or for that matter a giant fish or bird or lobster or wheel of cheese? At which planning meeting did the they pass that intention? Was it to increase tourism?"Listen Frank, I'm sure that people would drive to Wawa to see a big goose. Where else would they go to see a big goose?"
As inane as the goose and nickel are, I have two favourites in inanity. One I've seen and one I've not.
The first I have yet to see: The Giant Pierogi. I guess my main question is simply, 'How does one recognize a Pierogi, giant or otherwise?' It really doesn't have much of a shape to it and the colour couldn't be more bland. Certainly it isn't a food that appears in a great deal of still life and so I find it remarkable that someone would mak
e a giant version of it.The second I saw recently: The Giant Gnome. An oxymoron of enormous proportions. A gnome is a gnome because it isn't giant.
Got to love that Canadian identity.
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Where is this giant gnome? And really, wouldn't he just be a giant? One of my favourites is the really big moose in Moosejaw.
The "Giant Gnome" was last seen on Vancouver Island. By the way, I have no idea what the hand gestures mean. Did you notice them?
On the one hand it says stop, the other one says keep moving. That is the type of confusion we should expect from a giant gnome. The "last seen," bit makes me think that he wanders. Does he?
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