Why is one part of this statue shinier than the rest?

[rug]

[onehandle]

1. Boobies! nt

[In_The_Wind]

2. More polishing

just sayin' [img][/img]

[Aristus]

3. Touching them for luck.

Or just, you know......touching them...

Ah, Miss Molly Malone...

[rug]

4. Like wishful thinking?

[Aristus]

5. Human nature.

"Hmm. I wonder if those are real?"

[rrneck]

6. Hedley was here. nt

[steve2470]

7. secret signal to aliens ?

[hunter]

8. Don't molest the statues.

http://www.smosh.com/smosh-pit/photos/25-people-molesting-statues (some possibly NSFW)

[rug]

9. Lol!

[lunatica]

10. LOL! Funny!

[AsahinaKimi]

22. I love that!

Reminds me of this

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. WHAT'S EVERYBODY LOOKING AT ME FOR?

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[rug]

12. Lol! Second picture: "It's broken!"

[seabeyond]

13. except there are other parts that are just as shiney, but wouldnt work for your boobie thread.

i get it.

[rug]

14. Not as shiney.

You don't get it.

What do you think would happen to this statue if it was displayed outside?

[seabeyond]

15. the hand, the cart handle, part of the wheel, handles on the baskets and her upper

chest are all as shiney.

just as shiney. so no, your theory fails and yes, i get the game is not nearly as fun as to pretend men? boys? have to walk by and feel a statue up.

i would say this would be 13 yr old giggles. but, i do not even see 13 yr olds behave like this.

[rug]

16. Not as shiney.

Do you object to pedestrians touching bronze breasts? Or bronze penises for that matter?

[seabeyond]

17. waaaa, you wont let me play my game.... waaaa.

whatever. ok. so it is so fuckin over the top shiney every man and boy is touching some solid object cause it is a breast.

wow. says so much for all the boys and mens mentality. go at it haus. what a fuckin joke. bah hahahah

[rug]

18. You didn't answer the question.

[hunter]

23. There are bronze statues with bright shiny dicks.

But yes, in our sexist society they are a bit more difficult to find, even on Bing, "safe search" off.

I've seen a few. but I can't remember the names.

[seabeyond]

24. i was merely pointing out the shiney has to do with the artists hands, not little boys rubbing the

statues tits. seems to be really bothersome that an artist had the area, along with other areas, more shiney than the rest. and it is not attributed to, i guess, grown men rubbing on an inanimate object.

go figure.

[hunter]

25. This guy, in San Francisco's Golden Gate park, has suffered a similar fate.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. John Ashcroft came this way

He just couldn't resist temptation.

[rug]

20. Lol!

Or is it bah hahahah?

[lastlib]

21. sunscreen?

(just a guess.......)

[Demoiselle]

26. Where is that statue?

I'm far more interested in the building behind her that her shiny bits...

[Tanuki]

28. It's the Molly Malone (she of the "Cockles and Mussels" song) statue on Grafton Street

in Dublin. Locals have been known to call it "the tart with the cart!:

[petronius]

29. Dublin, Ireland

http://goo.gl/maps/lxof2

It's a statue of Molly Malone on Grafton Street...

[rug]

30. That's the statue of Molly Malone in Dublin on Grafton Street. I don't know the building.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone

[rug]

33. Looking at the map, I'd say it's one of the buildings of Trinity College.

[kwassa]

27. Then there is the famous Manneken Pis in Brussels.

and then they dress him.

[tavernier]

31. The Tart With the Cart.

I was there last year. Favorite meeting spot for Dubliners. We used it as that ourselves, rounding up our friends on cell phones to meet by fair Molly and then lunch at the pub around the corner from her. Great pub, wish I could remember the name; think it was O'Neill's?

[rug]

32. Do you know what the building behind it is?

[tavernier]

36. Trinity College, I believe

We had just come from touring it, so I think it is one of the buildings of Trinity

[rug]

37. Thanks. That's what I got from poking around a map.

Looks like a beautiful place.

[tavernier]

39. I was really impressed with Dublin.

We traveled in a horseshoe pattern from Dublin to Galway and saw many wonderful things, but I really loved Dublin. It is a big small city, if you know what I mean. Easy to get around, chock full of interesting history and sites, yet at the same time, a great sense of fun and humor. I would go back.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

34. This isn't from 'motorboating'...

[rug]

35. Wow, that's a lot of touching.

I remember in high school one of the teachers said Democritus got his idea for the theory of atoms by seeing how worn some parts of the statues in the temples became. He didn't say if was breasts or noses though.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

38. It's supposed to be good luck to rub Abe's nose.

But you have to be careful, it's not just any "Abe"
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[Tanuki]

40. Some interesting historical perspective

on the legend of Molly Malone:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/irhismys/molly.htm

[rug]

42. Very interesting. Here's the background on another of her sculptures, Annie Moore.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/nyregion/14annie.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[warrior1]

41. her hand