...in effigy.

From the Daily Telegraph site:

Liverpool vandal chops off Ringo Starr’s head

A foliage sculpture of ex-Beatle Ringo Starr came has come a cropper after a vandal chopped off his head. Starr, 67, outraged parts of Liverpool in January when, days after opening the city’s European Capital of Culture celebrations, he said he missed nothing about the city. The vandal - who left John, Paul and George alone - struck nearly three months after Starr’s appearance on BBC1’s Jonathan Ross show.

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I don’t know what bothers me more, the idea of someone decapitating a topiary or the idea of someone making a bush shaped like Ringo Starr.

Yeah, I agree, Berlyn. A topiary is a very…weird tribute, I must say. Not that somebody should have been chopping it up, because weird or not, topiaries are apparently a lot of work, but I’m trying to imagine the meeting of the Liverpool Convention & Visitors Bureau or whatever at which somebody said, “Hey! I know! Let’s make a topiary of the Beatles!” And then everybody else saying, “Cool! Why don’t you put that in the form of a motion?”

People have created a lot more weirder things than that.

While growing the head back, I suggest they merely change the signage to indicate that it is a topiary of Spinal Tap… Problem solved!

Transfrmr - 15 April 2008 06:39 AM

While growing the head back, I suggest they merely change the signage to indicate that it is a topiary of Spinal Tap… Problem solved!

DJ_Canada - 15 April 2008 06:26 AM

People have created a lot more weirder things than that.

Like a six foot statue of Garth Brooks carved out of butter…

Oh, sure—lots, lots weirder. But there is a whimsical, wacky weirdness about this that would be hard (though not impossible) to beat.

Kathleen - 15 April 2008 09:47 AM

Oh, sure—lots, lots weirder. But there is a whimsical, wacky weirdness about this that would be hard (though not impossible) to beat.

How about a piano 10x the size of an original. Or a bear taking a picture with an old time camera.
It’s funny this came up, becuase I was going through an old magazine of mine. It has a lot of pictures. I could scan them, but I’d have to tear the pages out.

DJ…just because other things are wacky, whimsical and weird doesn’t mean this isn’t. Ranking strange things according to the three W’s really isn’t necessary. Why not enjoy whimsicality, wackiness and weirdness whenever you come across it? I certainly do.