What Scotland really needs is a 90ft nude woman made of multicoloured steel. Happily, Dundee University is considering asking the sculptor David Mach to make one straddling a few of its buildings, as a way to celebrate a £200 million redevelopment project. A scale model of Bio Colossus goes on display at the city’s arts centre next month for public consultation and, who knows, perhaps a visit from King Kong.
Hundreds of bras on a farm fence are a major tourist attraction for Cardrona, a New Zealand town. Four women celebrated the millennium by leaving theirs on the fence, starting the tradition. But things may be getting out of hand, and some are demanding their removal, describing the display as an eyesore and traffic hazard. “We don’t want it getting higher, longer or suddenly being filled with boots and knickers as well,” says a worried John Scurr, the chairman of the local residents association.
Slang was as popular in the 14th century as it is today. “Cool”, a word used by Chaucer and Shakespeare and now being celebrated in academic papers in the country that hijacked it in the last century, has kept hold ever since. “Cool just sits back and keeps getting used generation after generation,” says Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, New York. “It had street cred even before we used the words ‘street cred’.”
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Adulterous police in Florida will be suspended in future, promises the sheriff in one county, Pinellas, where things have been getting out of hand. What are described as “deputy-involved cases of adultery” have led to a flood of the American equivalent of 999 calls.
The Darkness, Lowestoft’s most famous band — are looking positively on the modest response to their second album, One Way Ticket to Hell . . . And Back: it’s made them big in Nordic countries. “I was doing some interviews for some Scandinavian newspaper,” says the lead singer, Justin Hawkins. “And it appears that the fact that our album is not selling has become the story.” Silver linings? Truly everywhere.
Sources: The Herald (Glasgow), The Sydney Morning Herald, Southland Times, CBS News, Local6.com