
This statue was located in a bitterly cold Toronto. I didn’t really master the hand positioning when imitating the statue, but I like to think that I perfected the hairstyle pretty well. Once again, I do not know who the person is I’m afraid, although it certainly wasn’t the best statue we found of a
balding man in that particular city…
Talking of which, I was chatting away with the
Ultimate Olympian during a cigarette break at work a couple of days ago about the aims of this particular website. Hmmmmm. Originally I was intending just to keep it going for a year, but thanks to all you lovely people who have sent photos to me, it seems that I’m going to be doing this for quite a while longer yet! (Apologies to those who are still waiting to be published, by the way). Anyways, one suggestion was that we should attempt to get a photo of someone Stood By Their Statue in
every capital city on this fine planet. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable plan to me!
So, ladies and gentleman, I am happy, nay, delirious, to report that we have Canada covered! Other capital cities that have been published so far include:
Paris,
Madrid,
Havana & Copenhagen (in one post!),
Amsterdam,
Athens,
Bangkok,
Berlin,
Prague,
Capetown*,
Dublin,
Moscow,
London,
Seoul and
Reykjavik.
That gives us a grand total of 16 capital cities covered so far. Wahey! Way to go folks. According to
this site, there are 193 countries in the world, hence 193 capital cities, leaving us with just 177 more to go! No problem! So, if you are reading this from a capital city somewhere, then get out there and Stand by Your Statue and send the evidence in. Together we can achieve this I am certain…
Of course, this aim of the site should be added to two previous Stand By Your Statue missions, namely to add to our
Ronald McDonald collection and to locate another 144 registered
Big Things in Australia. Its good to have aims and plans in life eh?!
* Although technically listed as having three capital cities on the site, one is good enough for me.