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A statue of Terry Wogan was unveiled in Limerick and it doesn't really look anything like him
YESTERDAY, A BRONZE statue of the late broadcaster Terry Wogan was unveiled in his native Limerick.
There was even a big ceremony at Poor Man’s Kilkee on the Shannon quayside:
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The grand unveiling.
The statue looks great from afar, but when you get an up close shot of it you realise that the proportions are slightly off… with the result that it doesn’t really look like Terry at all
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Oh.
People picked up on it straight away – and the jokes came flooding in
Memories were sparked of that Ronaldo statue from a few months back
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People thought the Wogan statue was inspired by that iconic piece
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The last 24 hours have been a long game of “guess who this looks like?” – with Nick Cave being an early frontrunner
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This theory checks out
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Kent Brockman from The Simpsons, maybe?
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Yep, you can see that too
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The suggestions kept on coming
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And, inevitably, the comparison to Herman Munster
Uncomfirmed reports that Lionel Richie’s girlfriend helped out with the design
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Something is just *off*
And word is in that there’s going to be an official portrait done
All this criticism *might* be a little harsh – from far away you can definitely make out it’s Wogan
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And visitors to the city will know that Limerick’s well-known BBC presenter is being remembered in the birthplace
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But still.
What a 24 hours in the life of a statue.
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