The bust (if you even can call it that...) pictured in the article is terrifying!
Photogrammaton 17 hours ago [-]
The plaque is identical in two of the photos (one from Ireland, one from Luxembourg), and the wording is identical in those two plus a third (from Western Australia). That makes me curious.
wccrawford 18 hours ago [-]
You don't think this is just a joke that multiple people thought of independently?
Some of them might be in reaction to a local event, or even a worldwide event that had no local impact. But I think they're mostly just jokes.
clickety_clack 16 hours ago [-]
Was it in a Monty python sketch or something?
TRiG_Ireland 18 hours ago [-]
The Futility Closet website (and, formerly, podcast) is an amazing treasure trove of fascinating facts.
alucardo 12 hours ago [-]
Yes! and thank you for making me remember its existence
bckr 18 hours ago [-]
My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”.
arjie 18 hours ago [-]
I’m in my late thirties and it was still in common use in India, and perhaps specifically among Anglo Indians? But it meant more like “no chance”.
“Can I go out to the movies with my friends?”
“Nothing doing! You have an exam tomorrow”
Or failure to do something.
“I tried to fix it myself but nothing doing”.
HappMacDonald 17 hours ago [-]
Looney Toons / Merry Melodies also bear out this connotation quite well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1ra_Cimrman
Some of them might be in reaction to a local event, or even a worldwide event that had no local impact. But I think they're mostly just jokes.
“Can I go out to the movies with my friends?”
“Nothing doing! You have an exam tomorrow”
Or failure to do something.
“I tried to fix it myself but nothing doing”.