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I like this bull...

 

Is that a billboard?

I see some truss support posts.


http://seldomnicenowadays.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html


Caption that!!!!!!

 

Yes, George, it's a billboard to promote the brandy of a very well known spanish trade mark, Osborne. Years ago you could find one of those in almost all main roads in Spain. Then they began to dissapear, but were saved from destruction by being declared of touristic interest, or the like. I think there are around 30 of them still up. The image of the bull in the fields of Spain has become so popular, it's being used even within the national flag by many aficionados when at sport matches of all kind.
Cheers.

 

Osborne - hardly a Spanish name that surely?

 

It is very spanish nowadays....

Read this interesting and epicurean:
TRAVELING ACROSS SPAIN WITH THE OSBORNE BULL

From there:
A Note on Osborne’s Bull:
Fifty years ago Osborne commissioned commercial artist Manolo Prieto to come up with a logo to advertise Osborne’s Veterano brandy. Prieto came up with an iconographic silhouette of a fighting bull, which has come to represent not only Osborne as a company, but Spain itself. The Tejada family of El Puerto de Santa Maria, relatives of the artist, have been making billboards of the bull for fifty years. Constructed of sheet metal, the largest are 45 feet in height and weigh 8,800 pounds. Over the years legislation was passed that banned billboards, but in 1997 Spain’s Supreme Court granted amnesty to the Osborne bull, declaring it a cultural asset. Today over ninety bulls can be found across Spain, and several dozen more in Mexico.

Cheers.

 

Guillermo

Verfy interesting little piece that, make a few bottle of wine do these Osbornes then (not bad for an English family - must be the Devon heritage, I know of a couple of people from that part of the world who went down well in Cadiz -you may know of one of them! chap called Duck or something like that!)

 

http://www.eliboat.com/?m=200510



http://forums.canadiancontent.net/n...olice-capzised-greenpeace-boat-g8-summit.html



http://minaidehazukashii.com/

 

The car park at my local.

 

Hey PeePee wouldn't want to fall off the pavement (sidewalk to the *******) going back to the car eh!

 

Drunk again Walrus? Wonderfull comment there, riveting, cant wait for the next.

Hey katchi got more of those cartoony girly things.

 

Perhaps a little more 'blubber' or frozen cod in his diet might help ?

 

http://www.dieselduck.net/seafarer.htm

These two drawing are from a great little book by Bob Basnight, "What ship is that ?"

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=93611&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=



Shelley Ley photograph, Grenell Island.
http://www.thousandislandslife.com/On the water 3.html

 

The shortest swim...
http://www.overseainsurance.com/images/short trip.mpg

 

Close Call

First image....

 

Close Call 2

Second image.