Talk:Headington Shark/Archive 1

Archive 1

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The Headington Shark/Temp created whilst copyvio problems are processed. Alf ^melmac 08:08, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

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Since this was not actually a copyvio, please could you merge that page into this? -Splash^talk 22:38, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Attribution for quote

"It is rather realistically painted and, being almost as tall as the house it sticks out of, a lot bigger than people tend to expect. Altogether the effect is at once comical, awe inspiring and surreal."

This is presented as a quote, but has no attribution, and Google only turned up copies of the WP article. If no attribution can be found, perhaps the quotation marks should be removed? Slovakia 15:12, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Scaffolding

Comment moved here from the article: "Further to the last comment, whilst drinking in the next door Royal Standard, we spoke to some contractors who said they had erected the scaffolding in order to "clean" the shark in preperation for its 21st birthday ( Aug 2007 ). This was back in June 2007 and at the time of writing ( Dec 2007 ), the scaffolding is still there and no cleaning has been done. I shall try to discover more!" (62.49.141.226) Flapdragon (talk) 13:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Trivial remark

At the corner of New High Street and London Road, which is visible from the Shark house, there was an equally big replica of two crosssed legs and I always thought the shark had some relation to them, like an artistic answer to their presence in the neighbourhood or a kind of "dialog" with them. But this was in 1991 and I haven't been back since. I see no mention of this here, so maybe they have been removed. Hoverfish Talk 22:32, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

The Legs The legs have indeed been removed (and sadly also the cinema they were attached to), and they are now kicking on the Duke of York's cinema in Brighton. Stephanie (Oxford) (talk) 15:36, 25 February 2014 (UTC)