A statue of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid (below) has long been one of the biggest tourist attractions in Copenhagen, Denmark. But for the next six months, she'll be visiting China, and her rock will be empty for the first time in almost a century.
So on April Fool's Day, some crafty pranksters decided to fill the void. Tourists who came looking for the Little Mermaid instead found her skeleton. I wish I could have seen their faces.
More here.
For a second i thought the skeleton was the statue.
ReplyDeleteThat's absolutely fantastic. Good on them!
Ha! I wish I could do things like that. (But I need the resources and the opportunity...) It would have been nice to see.
ReplyDeleteHope you all had a nice Easter. (And April Fool's day!)
I wonder where they found that skeleton..... very cleaver!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I too wish I could have seen their faces.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter everyone! Death no longer has dominion....
Hah. Ingenious.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter! Nellie, virtual high-five!
HAH. that's pretty magnificent.
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty good prank . . . wonder what Denmark's government thought of that. :)
ReplyDeleteIt came from the DEEP!!!
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!!!! I love it! ;)
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT! I wonder where they found the tail!? Do you know if the skeleton is made of real bone?
ReplyDeleteI want to meet those pranksters.
hahahaha i love them
ReplyDeleteOnce I brought that book to class in kindergarten to the "joy" of my teachers. My little Christian school sent frantic calls to my mother when I got to the part with the sea witch's lair filled with mermaid corpses.
ReplyDeleteCool! i wonder how much it cost to make.
ReplyDeleteAnanka, do you know when the t-shirts will be up in the store?
Pingoo--I thought the same thing!
ReplyDeleteI wonder why nothing interesting like that ever happens in my life.....
Thats really cool! Thats so clever! The real story of the little mermaid is so sad though. I read it and the rest of the day was depressing. But I love fairy tales.
ReplyDeleteyou've mentioned before that you are a tim burton fan... are you going 2 see the exhibit of his art at the MoMA? i was there last week, and it is totally worthwhile (by that I mean AWESOME)
ReplyDeletei like it- i read a bok on that statue once- a happy hollister one- young but good. i collect them. i have 1 worth over a $100.
ReplyDeleteyeah- no 1 understands why im scared of the little mermaid. i was scarred for life after reading how she turned into sea foam. and walked on knives. so sad....
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh- why can't i think of cool April Fool's Day jokes like that? in other news:
ReplyDeleteI'M ON SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!
that is all.
Lioness-
ReplyDeleteI am a big Tim Burton fan also!
I went in November, and could hardly breathe. If you have heard (I say it all the time), I grew up far away from Dr. Suess. I let Burton and Gorey guide me through my childhood.
Tim Burton is my hero! (And so are Kirsten Miller, The Irregulars, Pseudonymous Bosch, Erik, Gerard Butler, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Beatrix Potter, Jesus,Scott Westerfeld, Tyra Banks, and Edgar Allen Poe.) Yes, those are a lot of heroes, but they are also my role models!
Look at the hilarious movie my friend made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SMVPvI_jZ8
ReplyDeleteYou will laugh until you die. Except not really, because you pass out first.
anna-
ReplyDeleteniiiiiiiiiiice. haha
Anna- You, my friend, just described me in my childhood. Of course, I also grew up on Dr. Seuss, so I turned out with sadism and goriness that rhymes. Go figure. xD
ReplyDeleteTim Burton is so genius! One of my favorite movies as a kid was Ngihtmare Before Christmas, we would watch it every Halloween. Coraline was great, so was 9, and Alice in Wonderland was awesome! Has anyone else seen it?
ReplyDeleteAnna- You just basically described my hero's except Tyra Banks which I would replace with, Joan of Arc, and Artemis.
ReplyDeleteI used to hate the little mermaid when i was younger, until i read the original when i was 4. my favorite part was the ending, and ever since then, i've cackled maliciously to myself whenever i see a picture of ariel. i also used to torture my girly-girl friends by showing them tim burton movies. actually, i still do ;)
ReplyDeleteThe little mermaid deboned.
ReplyDeleteSomebody must have been hungry :)
we made the funniest video for an award ceremony at school. it was a parody of the A-team. we called the ESR Team. Any1 have an earth science ref. table? it a NY thing I think.
ReplyDeleteI love tyra Banks!!!!!!! I've never liked the little mermaid
ReplyDeletemovies, whats with the neon red hair anyway?! has anyone read the luxe books? there really fluffy as my mom would say (aka really girly and lovey dovey) there my guilty pleasure (:
I happen to think it's wrong the way Disney altered the original story of The Little Mermaid.What would dear old Hans think of what they did to his story? Anyone with me?
ReplyDeleteBtw Anaka, I found picture you'd like XD
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Kirsten, I've noticed you have been taking a while between posts. I hope that that's just because The Darkness Dwellers is going to be published sooner than expected.
ReplyDeleteAND I AM 12 IN 8 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SORRY, I'M OVER EXCITED. <:0D
did u die? cause that would stink!!! u probably didnt. which is good. :)
ReplyDeletewhen are you going to post again . . . . . i have nothing to do and i need something interesting to read.
ReplyDeleteEmily: Yes, I'm with you. It always annoys me when movie people do stuff like that. "Prince Caspian" was the worst.
ReplyDeletePeople, leave Ananka alone! She has an actual job and is undoubtedly very busy in real life.
"Prince Caspian" was the best! I love that movie . . .
ReplyDeleteemily: Im with ya
ReplyDeleteEmi:
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your movie!
I emailed the link to all my friends.
its sooooooo funny bravo-bravo!!!!
Ha, ha, brilliant, and I'm from Copenhagen :D
ReplyDeleteActually I think there has been other pranks like that on the little mermaid!
PS. I LOVE ANANKA'S DIARY!