Forget that busty mermaid statue in Wellington, Florida. Charles Jecks is constructing “The Goddess of the North” near Newcastle England out of an old slag heaop using earth-moving equipment. She’ll be visible from passing airplanes, will be a reclining nude, and (as all the reports are careful to note) she’ll have 100 foot breasts.:
Can someone please tell me if there is any way that a gigantic reclining naked figure made from mining waste isn’t just going to be called ‘The Old Slag Of The North’?
I am curious to know whether the stated breast dimension of 100 feet refers to the standard bust size as used when buying clothes, or the height of said breasts above the ground on a reclining woman. Not that I’ve ever seen a bra capable of restraining a couple of 100 footers. Maybe I never will.
Anyway, using the breast/height ratio of the proposed Goddess of the North (100 feet / 2,640 feet) means that my partner (5 feet 6 inches tall) should have a breast size of 2.5 inches.
Her breasts are in fact 38 inches (bra size) and approximately 26 inches above the ground when she is reclining, assuming maximum firmness. (Please allow for a 10% error either way as she was asleep when I took this sample.)
The last thing we need in this country is a Goddess of the North with small breasts. My best guess is that they should be about 1,000 feet, on either basis of measurement.
Huh. Having seen the drawing… pretty weird. The breasts don’t look like human breasts, they just look like cones, and the hips look weirdly skinny; on the splash page they look practically skeletal. I’d go more with the swelling roundnesses than with the whole ziggurat idea. Though maybe they’ll look more natural after a few decades’ erosion.
How odd that something so lovely and, well, mother-earthish is coming out of something so destructive.