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Urinating Dog Joins
Fearless Girl And Charging
Bull In New York Statue Row
Artist Alex Gardega installed a pug stat- ue on Wall Street to protest against a statue that he sees as advertising rather than art.
A statue of a urinat- ing pug has joined a heated art row on Wall Street in New York.
The artist Alex Gardega installed Pissing Pug, alter- natively known as Sketchy Dog, as an act of defiance against the Fearless Girl statue that was erected earlier this year next to the Charging Bull, installed in 1985.
Fearless Girl, designed by the artist Kristen Visbal, was intended to be a comment on gen- der inequality, appearing on the eve of International Women’s Day, but caused the bull’s sculptor, Arturo Di Modica, to claim his work had been hijacked and the meaning subverted.
Alex Gardega told the New York Post: “It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull ... That bull had integrity.”
He referred to it as “corporate non- sense” that was
masquerading as art but was in fact commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, one of the world’s largest banks. “It was made by a billion-dollar financial firm trying to promote an index fund,” he told NBC News. “It is advertis- ing/promotion in the guise of art. That was my only point.”
The bank denies this and has reiter- ated the importance of the statue. “Fearless Girl was created to stand as a reminder that hav- ing more women in leadership positions positively con- tributes to overall performance and strengthens our economy,” a state- ment reads.
The Pissing Pug statue has sparked negative reactions online, with the women’s advocate
Amy Siskind refer- ring to Gardega as “every white guy who can’t stand that he has to compete with women and PoC in America” and the official Women’s March Twitter feed refer- ring to it as an act of “male fragility”. The actor Debra Messing called the statue “disgusting,”, calling the artist a “misogynistic, pathetic bastard”.
After three hours, Gardega decided to take his statue down because he didn’t want to leave it and see it taken by someone else. Di Modica, the bull sculptor, has yet to file a lawsuit but his lawyers are demanding to see the documents that were used by city officials to place Fearless Girl next to his statue.
The judge reviews the divorce case very carefully and issues his judge- ment. "Mr Smith, I am going to give your wife $750 a month."
Mr. Smith's replies, "That's very nice of you, judge. And every once in a while I will send her a little extra too."
A bank clerk is talk- ing with her col- league. "I think now- a-days my beauty has been decreas- ing."
"Why do you think that?" asked the col- league.
"The men who are withdrawing cash at my counter are actu- ally counting their money."
To celebrate their sil- ver anniversary, a couple went to Niagara Falls and asked a motel clerk for a room. "We only have the honeymoon suite available," the clerk told them.
"My wife and I've been married 25 year," the man said. "We don't need the honeymoon suite."
"Look, buddy," replied the clerk. "I might rent you Yankee Stadium, but you don't have to play baseball in it!"
After a tiring day at work, a husband was able to sneak out an hour early. He
just wanted to get home and lie down in bed next to his wife.
He gets home and slides into bed next to his sleeping wife. But then he hears a sound coming from underneath. He puts his hand under the bed, expecting to feel the wet nose or tongue of his dog Buddy. He asks, "Is that you, Buddy?"
His hand gets licked and then he hears, "Yes, it's me, Buddy."
Jim decided to tie the knot with his longtime girlfriend. One evening, after the honeymoon, he was cleaning his golf shoes. His wife was standing there watching him. After a long period of silence she finally speaks. "Honey, I've been thinking, now that we are married I think it's time you quit golfing. Maybe you should sell your golf clubs."
Jim gets this horri- fied look on his face. She says, "Darling, what's wrong?"
”There for a minute you were sounding like my ex-wife.”
"Ex-wife!" she screams, "I didn't know you were mar- ried before!"
"I wasn't."
A friend of mine had resisted efforts to get him to run with our
jogging group until his doctor told him he had to exercise. Soon thereafter, he reluctantly joined us for our 5:30 am jogs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
After a month of run- ning, we decided that my friend might be hooked, especial- ly when he said he had discovered what “runner’s euphoria” was.
“Runner’s euphoria,” he explained, “is what I feel at 5:30 am on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.”
A teacher asked her students to use the word "beans" in a sentence.
"My father grows beans," said one girl.
"My mother cooks beans," said a boy.
A third student spoke up, "We are all human beans."
The person sitting next to me on a flight was a woman. Ever the charmer, I used one of my pick-up lines on her.
I asked, “Does the airline charge you extra for sitting next to good-looking men?”
“Yes,” she replied, “but I wasn’t willing to pay.”
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