This is Canberra

Daily Telegraph (Australia) ^ | 5/10/2013 | Tim Blair

[RightGeek]

The perfect symbol of our capital city – a bloated, gaseous, multi-breasted monster feeding those who dwell in its poisonous shadow while leeching off the rest of us:

Good Lord. The ghastly beast takes flight next week:

Skywhale, a 23m-high, 34m-wide hot air balloon resembling a whale-like creature, will be unveiled in Canberra tomorrow as the headline commission for the Centenary of Canberra celebrations. The balloon will be tethered to the National Gallery of Australia to coincide with a sculpture symposium before making its first flight over the capital on Monday …

The work, a “relative bargain for public art” at $172,000, will be hard to miss. Bristol balloon-makers Camerons made Skywhale from 3.5km of fabric.

So they’ve celebrated Canberra’s centenary by sending money to England. Brilliant!

UPDATE. Oh, the huge mammaries!

UPDATE II. Skywhale’s Canberra symbolism is now complete:

ACT taxpayers are paying at least $100,000 more than the territory government has indicated for the controversial Skywhale hot air balloon.

Official documents reveal the balloon is costing at least $334,000, not the $170,000 figure quoted by ACT Government officials.

UPDATE III. They paid for it but don’t own it: ...

[RightGeek]

I spotted the Sky Whale at http://countrystore.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-perfect-symbol-of-our-capital-city.html where the observation was that since the Australians are only renting it, how long would it be before Michelle and Barack would bring it to DC.

[mylife]

"Oh, the huge mammaries! "

LOL!!

[narses]

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[melsec]

A multitude of teats for the masses to suckle on - OH mother government let me drink of they milk of elitist generosity- what an absolutely disgusting sight!

Mel

[JaguarXKE]

Looks like a giant turtle covered with Helen Thomas’ breasts!

[PieterCasparzen]

Whole thread brutally funny.

[tanuki]

Nothing a quad .50 can’t cure.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

I would have expected to see something like that flying over HongCouver (Vancouver), BC!

[mitch5501]

Suddenly,he appeared as a flying pile'o'norks,so we called very loudly and it was beat with a stick and told,fly away you wicked pile'o'norks,we don't want your type....here!

What the h#!! is that thing? I hate to think what it might represent.All it needs is a bunch of blokes in nappies banging drums and we have "The struggle of mam"

Then again maybe it's just Rodan with bazookas.

[melsec]

You crazy B#stard LOL

Mel

[mitch5501]

Hey,at least I aint flyin' the thing! The pilot prolly trained as an 'astronork'.I'm imagining that thing flying along with that other big wind-bag Al Gore tagging along behind in case it needs in-flight refueling.

The real question though is,would Laz hit it?

[melsec]

“The real question though is,would Laz hit it?”

With that many teats to play with I think we all know that answer!

[Lazamataz]

I already did hit it.

But I want to hit it again: