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MAJ Rene De La Rosa
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Well, there are some things that are left better unsaid than said...or seen, in this case.
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CW3 Harvey K.
CW3 Harvey K.
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I recall seeing a bronze bust of a bare-breasted woman in the Museum of Natural History in NYC. The dark bronze was similarly polished bright on the bosom by countless touches.
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CW3 Harvey K.
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Ah Dublin! That statue in the street is known locally as "The tart with the cart". There's another in Dublin's streets, of some ladies "of a certain age" standing around gabbing while carrying their shopping bags, who are called "the hags with the bags".

Then there was a monstrous, grotesque figure of a nude female in a running horizontal fountain, named either the "floozie in a Jacuzzi", or the "who-er in the sewer" by the local wags, and a statue of Oscar Wilde, posed on a cliff, that was christened "the fag on the crag".

I heard they finally got that monstrosity of "the who-er in the sewer" out of Dublin, but they got a new landmark to replace her. There is now a tall spike of a tower in O'Connell Street, near the River Liffey, to replace the Nelson Pillar that some of the lads took a bit of gelignite to. The Freudian symbolism of that tall structure did not escape those most literate Dubliners, who dubbed the new addition "the stiffy by the Liffey".
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CPL Douglas Chrysler
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Darned Irish.
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CW3 Harvey K.
CW3 Harvey K.
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My wife and I spent less than a week in Dublin, after spending time with relatives in Mayo and Kerry. We had the good fortune of my wife's cousin, a native Dubliner, as our guide.
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CW3 Harvey K. Two of my granddaughters make the trip at least once a year. They say it's the only way to get through the rest of the year.
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