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Profanity Writ Large (In Gardens, Lawns, Landscapes, Etc.)

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Came across this while reading The Book of Strange Facts & Useless Information by Scott Morris (1979):

In the early 1950s, a bored but single-minded weatherman, serving a 2 1/2-year duty in Her Majesty's Service in desolate northern Canada, made use of an abandoned Royal Air Force bulldozer and some surveying equipment to rearrange millions of tons of boulder, earth and ice to form four colossal letters spelling the familiar English obscenity for sexual intercourse. Located somewhat north of Hudson Bay, the word was said to be clearly visible from planes on intercontinental routes flying as high as 27,000 feet.
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:yeay: Anybody know more about this? Does this chap have a name and more importantly, are there pictures?
 
Smaller scale, but wasn't there a news story about someone mowing expletives into their lawn a couple of years ago?
 
And we all know about the English prison garden opposite the governor's office, which in full bloom spelt 'BOLLOCKS'. :D
 
When I was at school someone reseeded a bare patch of earth in front of the sixth form common room so that when the grass grew it spelt out BANKSY IS A TWAT.

There was also a story on Radio 4's News Quiz ages ago about a nice, polite, wouldn'tsaybootoagoose German POW who was put to work as a gardener somewhere on the South Coast towards the end of WW2. Not long after he was repatriated a border he'd planted came into bloom with the phrase HEIL HITLER as its centrepiece. (Come to think of it, historically speaking, you should always be a bit careful allowing Germans to tinker with your borders....No?....I'll get me coat then).
 
Aaaannnnd.... we safely segue into the subject of the German forest swastika, produced by careful planting of a distinctively-foliaged variety of tree.

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I thought this was going to be about something like the GABA - the Great Australian Bugger All (colloquial term for the Australian Outback). Mind you, that's big enough to have a whole pornographic novel etched in it!
 
And lets not forget that from outer space the Great wall of China describes the pictogram for SUN XIAN MING IS HUNG LIKE A WEASEL AND HIS MUMS A LEZZA. (That's what happens in a society which lacks public toilets but is otherwise advanced in science, technology and engineering).
 
Once I went to meet a load of people off another website at the Tate Modern. In the turbine hall at the time was the big weather project piece by Olafur Erikson, which involved the whole ceiling of the huge room being made out of mirrors. Naturally we spelt out swear words by placing ourselves on the floor, and got applause for it, too :oops:
 
Is the 'structure' still in existence? I mean, would it be findable on google earth if we had a more specific location? Hudson Bay is rather humungous!
 
Is there a specifically rude word used by Canadians (English speakers) that English speakers (from elsewhere e.g. ...ooooo.....England) don't know, or wouldn't use?
 
:lol: ....as in 'you bloody French...'? (does one add an 'eh' or not?) :D

edit: ahem (steeeewpid typo)
 
GadaffiDuck said:
Is there a specifically rude word used by Canadians (English speakers) that English speakers (from elsewhere e.g. ...ooooo.....England) don't know, or wouldn't use?
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Leaferne said:
Yes. "French."
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You really think that "French" isn't used as a term of abuse in England? Ha!
 
When I was at school someone reseeded a bare patch of earth in front of the sixth form common room so that when the grass grew it spelt out BANKSY IS A TWAT
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Oh huzzah, spookdaddy's sixth form. HUZZAH. Hat = decidedly doffed.
 
Reminds me of a character in the graphic novel 'Preacher'...he dreamt of being an astronaut and cheated his way into taking the exam, but was found out and kicked out. So he bought a huge stretch of land and blasted out the words 'FUCK YOU' with dynamite in the rock. Much later on, we get a little scene of the space shuttle noticing his message...XD
 
40-metre profanity spotted from space

By Lester Haines

Published Friday 10th February 2006 12:02 GMT

Here's a Friday poser for you: you're a member of a highly-advanced alien civilisation and have just travelled to Earth in your hyperdrive-powered craft intending to enjoy a long-weekend break. The trouble is, you can't decide whether to: a) nip over to rural Idaho, abduct a farmhand and anally probe him before modifying his DNA and dumping him back on the highway; or b) pop down to Billingley in Yorkshire and leave a cryptic message for humanity in a corn field:

Well, it beats crop circles for crowd-pleasing entertainment value. Quite who Eddie is and why his name is writ large in rural England, we'll leave that to readers to explain.

Those of you with Google Earth can have a closer look here (.kmz file). The less highly-evolved can try Google Maps here or should look a couple of hundred metres west of the aforementioned village of Billingley.

theregister.co.uk

© Copyright 2006
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Farmer's huge arse pops up on Google Earth

By Lester Haines

Published Wednesday 31st May 2006 14:54 GMT

Hottish on the heels of the 40 metre profanity in Yorkshire which provided hours of harmless amusement for Google Earth aficionados, we have just received notification of another farmer up north who has decided to greet extraterrestrial visitors to our beautiful planet in the time-honoured local fashion:

Suffice to say, this concise message for ET and his chums lies somewhere south of Rotherham and east of Sheffield, as Google Earth users can verify here (.kmz file).

The rest of you will be delighted to learn that the farmer's huge arse has not yet been wiped on Google Maps.

theregister.co.uk

© Copyright 2006
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Click the article links for photographs ;)
 
Hmm, it's Eddie Grundy's revenge for the ctop-circle in his field!
 
Reading through this thread reminds me of a local story. Near where I live there are several large brickworks one of which is (or was -not certain it's still in business) called Ibstock Brick. A few years ago they sacked one of their employees and as an act of revenge said employee changed the mould which stamps the name of the company into the brick. It was apparently quite some time before one of their customers pointed out that they were receiving bricks stamped with the word BOLLOCKS!!
I believe the bricks are now collectors items!
 
BlackPeter said:
Reading through this thread reminds me of a local story. Near where I live there are several large brickworks one of which is (or was -not certain it's still in business) called Ibstock Brick. A few years ago they sacked one of their employees and as an act of revenge said employee changed the mould which stamps the name of the company into the brick. It was apparently quite some time before one of their customers pointed out that they were receiving bricks stamped with the word BOLLOCKS!!
I believe the bricks are now collectors items!
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All true.
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Feat of clay

Subtlety isn't a prized approach when it comes to revenge, hence the success of 30 staff at a brick factory in the West Midlands, whose parting gesture when they were fired is growing in legend.

It wasn't the actual dismissal that provoked them. It was the way in which bosses at the Ibstock Brick Himley plant, near Dudley, told them to make sure their last batch of bricks was up to scratch before leaving.

Nursing injured pride, they made one quick adjustment to the machinery and 30,000 bricks came out with the word "Bollocks" imprinted on their surface, to wing their way across the county.
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The company is still trading.
 
We have a tradition here in Australia that when you finish Year 12, the final year of school, you celebrate on what is called 'Muck Up Day'. Usually this is just a day of friendly get togethers and sometimes harmless pranks towards your classmates or teachers. When I was In Year 10, legend has it that a student in the middle of the night, drew an enormous penis on one of the playing fields using a weed killer. The dick & balls covered half the field & caused much laughter when it became apparent to us upon returning to school in the new year.
It was still visible for the remaining two years that I was there. The priests and nuns however were not as amused as we students were.
 
There are also enormous landscape-based swastikas still to be seen. While the famous German Woodland Swastika was obliterated some years ago, another entire swastika-shaped forest that was planted in Eastern Europe apparently by German Prisoners of war flourishes yet.

An Italian wood was planted in the shape of DUX, Latin for 'Duce', meaning Mussolini. It still stands on Monte Giano as part of avalance prevention or some such landwork so isn't likely to be cut down.
A wood in a Siberian forest area near the town of Tyukalinsk neatly spells LENIN in Cyrillic letters. This probably only dates from the 1970s and may commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth.

These things fascinate me, even more than do actual earthworks. They grow and become a living part of the landscape.
Even the despicable swastika woodland features would give us oxygen and be homes to wildlife.
 
Many years ago a company I worked for was bought over by a large American organisation who sent some guys over here to give us a presentation about our new masters. They booked a room in a swanky hotel for said presentation, and while we were waiting to go in, one of my colleagues seemed transfixed by a cork notice board in the foyer. He was rearranging the notices, taking pins out and repositioning them. After a few minutes, he stepped back and his handiwork was revealed: all the notices had been moved to one corner of the board, and all the drawing pins arranged into the shape of a penis.

It was early-evening and the sun was low in the sky and shining directly in the hotel windows- the bright light picked out the brass drawing pins and gave the knob-and-balls a striking golden glow that was quite mesmerising to the eye, a radiant aura that must have made any religious bypassers think that a miracle was manifesting in front of their astonished eyes.
 
Myself and a colleague went to collect a car we'd bought. On the way back to his workshop, we went along Stakes Road, heading for Purbrook, when we noticed in huge letters across both sides of the road, the words, "F*CK THE PIGS"

The next day, I rang a friend who lived nearby, but he said the council had been along and burnt the paint off the road.
 
Kryptonite said:
Many years ago a company I worked for was bought over by a large American organisation who sent some guys over here to give us a presentation about our new masters. They booked a room in a swanky hotel for said presentation, and while we were waiting to go in, one of my colleagues seemed transfixed by a cork notice board in the foyer. He was rearranging the notices, taking pins out and repositioning them. After a few minutes, he stepped back and his handiwork was revealed: all the notices had been moved to one corner of the board, and all the drawing pins arranged into the shape of a penis.

It was early-evening and the sun was low in the sky and shining directly in the hotel windows- the bright light picked out the brass drawing pins and gave the knob-and-balls a striking golden glow that was quite mesmerising to the eye, a radiant aura that must have made any religious bypassers think that a miracle was manifesting in front of their astonished eyes.
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One of my jobs involved working in various places across a wide area. Every office had a noticeboard with a blob of Blu-Tac stuck to the side.

My contribution to the workplace ambience was to surreptitiously shape the lump into a tiny but detailed cock-and-balls sculpture.
Flaccid, not erect, I'm no pervert.
 
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Swifty said:
We've got a stunt flyer who practices frequently over my home town and the sea. It was a fun novelty at first but it's just become noise pollution now with locals grumbling about it. I can sympathise with whoever wrote that sign.
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Some twazzock does that over my workplace at the height of summer. The noise is just ridiculous.
 
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