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Statues in dublin windows...???

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    #92
    hoyden
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭hoyden


    Hi

    Does anyone know if there's any significance to the small statues that can be seen in the windows of loads of houses throughout the city? they're of a white lady reclining draped in cloth. usually the house or flat has them in every window. They're EVERYWHERE and I think they might be a sign for something, e.g. that the house is protected.

    Does anyone know?

    d


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    #93
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Its a sign that they were on sale in huge numbers in some cheap shop and that the owners of the house have no bloody taste.


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    #94
    Ste.phen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    We had a big thread on those before didn't we?
    Along with fake grecian pillars on huge porches of tiny houses.


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    #95
    Dancor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Swingers


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    #96
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    It means the home owner is a Moderator on boards.ie.


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    #97
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Its peadophile code for "a peadophile dwelleth within".


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    #98
    arse..biscuits
    Registered Users Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭arse..biscuits


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055290625


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    #99
    Wishbone Ash
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    Threads merged.


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    #100
    SwirlsAllAround
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭SwirlsAllAround


    They've been around for years, and if anything seem to be getting more popular as time goes on... I haven't seen them for sale anywhere...I wonder where they're getting them from....Anyone know?


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    #101
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    SwirlsAllAround wrote: »
    They've been around for years, and if anything seem to be getting more popular as time goes on... I haven't seen them for sale anywhere...I wonder where they're getting them from....Anyone know?


    Maybe ask the man on the grassy knoll ;)


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    #102
    SwirlsAllAround
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭SwirlsAllAround


    Mairt wrote: »
    Maybe ask the man on the grassy knoll ;)

    I would but if Clueless taught me anything it's that "Loadies generally hang on the grassy knoll over there" and until I know what a loadie is I'll be keeping my distance.

    I suppose I could just knock on the door of a house that has them and ask...


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    #103
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Mairt wrote: »
    Maybe ask the man on the grassy knoll ;)
    Myself and my daughter tried that but with no success! :)

    Dallas2008.jpg


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    #104
    j_cal
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭j_cal


    Hi,

    I'm making a documentary about the mysterious women in the windows. At the moment we are logging all sightings of the statues and recording them on this Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110670130177424522360.00046f102b75928aebd6d&ll=53.349706,-6.276455&spn=0.004009,0.011362&z=17

    If you see any statues please add the location to the map, our plan is to visit as many locations as possible to interview the owners....


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    #105
    AmcD
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭AmcD


    Those reclining white ladies are actually compulsory in any ex-corpo house on the northside. There are particularly dense populations in Cabra, Finglas with some southside friends in Crumlin and Drimnagh.
    These ladies are only sold in pairs or trios because just having one would be tacky.
    The plaster shop on Parnell Street sells them, with plain or gold robes.


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    #106
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    j_cal wrote: »
    Hi,

    I'm making a documentary about the mysterious women in the windows. At the moment we are logging all sightings of the statues and recording them on this Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110670130177424522360.00046f102b75928aebd6d&ll=53.349706,-6.276455&spn=0.004009,0.011362&z=17

    If you see any statues please add the location to the map, our plan is to visit as many locations as possible to interview the owners....

    Are you actually out of your mind?

    Why not make a documentary about people who wear pajamas going to the shops?
    You can make alist of thier adresses and call round to interview them after they get thier dole..
    Students:rolleyes::rolleyes:


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    #107
    Yobnned
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    There's a house in Stonepark, just outside of Longford with these white statues. What's de story does anyone know???


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    #108
    monkeyfudge
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    Degsy wrote: »
    Are you actually out of your mind?

    Why not make a documentary about people who wear pajamas going to the shops?

    Ha. There's actually a documentary about that coming out in the IFI this month.


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    #109
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Ha. There's actually a documentary about that coming out in the IFI this month.


    Lol!

    Whats it called,"Puke-ahontas"?


    Or

    The Slag in The Striped Pajamas?


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    #110
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Pyjama Girls:

    http://ifi.ie/cinema/dispfilm_07.asp?filmID=6971&Date=12/08/2010&PageID=15

    Evidently they're charismatic.


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    #111
    spider_pig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭spider_pig


    pmsl here there in my windows aswell :D i never tought there was as much an issuse with them as i do now from readin here like there only staute's iv no idea where the owl one got them from or what the story is behind them but there all over the place


    **update** she got them in gerry kane's the wall paper shop there in talbot street no idea what the story is behind them is tho

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    #112
    Sundew
    Registered Users Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    Yobnned wrote: »
    There's a house in Stonepark, just outside of Longford with these white statues. What's de story does anyone know???


    I've seen them for sale on a market in Ballinasloe!
    I think I see a pattern emerging ;)

    Perhaps Fas should do some courses in "good style for your gaff" or "what your gaff says about you!" :D


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    #113
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Eve Black Azure wrote: »
    Took a photo of this monsterosity in Finglas south this evening, it has it all - AND MORE!..

    Statues in every window, roman pillars and whatever 'da fook those coloured bricks are called!..

    attachment.php?attachmentid=55856&stc=1&d=1210475802

    Drove by this house today and the offending statues have been removed from the windows.


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    #114
    Degsy
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    I remember back in the 70's people kept hideous porcalain Dogs in the windows or equally hideous Glass Fish.


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    #115
    Blackjack
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    Dyflin wrote: »
    There is (or was) a house on the SCR near James' hospital which had a big fook off statue of the virgin Mary in the window, now that would be a photo worth taking.

    Still there - I'll see if I can get a photo sometime.


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    #116
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Degsy wrote: »
    I remember back in the 70's people kept hideous porcalain Dogs in the windows or equally hideous Glass Fish.

    Everyone used to have the flying ducks up the wall! But that was indoors.


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    #117
    neris
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    Eve Black Azure wrote: »
    Not a statue in a window, but a gastly Skangermobile in Portmarnock...

    Nothing say's 'LOOK, I'M A WANKER' like this....

    attachment.php?attachmentid=56902&d=1211930099

    Most likely his mother (note I didn't say 'parents') has stautes in her window's too.

    That cars down in the petrol station on Grange Road in Baldoyle a fair bit with all the other boy racers at night. The bloke who drives it looks about 30 and should know better. The noise off its horrible.


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    #118
    rachaelc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭rachaelc


    Eve Black Azure wrote: »
    Not a statue in a window, but a gastly Skangermobile in Portmarnock...

    Nothing say's 'LOOK, I'M A WANKER' like this....

    attachment.php?attachmentid=56902&d=1211930099

    Most likely his mother (note I didn't say 'parents') has stautes in her window's too.

    what you trying to say that single mothers rear ****??


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    #119
    Blackjack
    Registered Users Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Blackjack


    rachaelc wrote: »
    what you trying to say that single mothers rear ****??

    Don't see where he or anyone else said that to be honest.


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    #120
    mikemac
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    rachaelc wrote: »
    what you trying to say that single mothers rear ****??

    Relax Rachael, nobody wrote that.
    Read the page again


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    #121
    brixtoncat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭brixtoncat


    Might be controversial to some of you, but I made a short documentary film on the subject of "The Lady on the Rock" as she's known... might provide a lil more insight on the subject :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyIZiB-T1Sk


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyIZiB-T1Sk


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