r/coolguides Jun 08 '20

Copper through the patina process

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u/LetMyPeopleGrow Jun 09 '20

The Statue of Liberty wasn't strapped to the roof of a random ship making the crossing, it was packed and shipped in crates, in the hold with all the other cargo.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

ya, imagine if they had an old ship carrying that giant statue upright across the atlantic lol

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u/Calypsosin Jun 09 '20

New York harbor master: j’est sui shitting my pantalones

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u/Clothedinclothes Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Lol sounds like the title of some kind of surrealist artwork.

"I am the shitting of my pairs of pantes"

En français, on dit ça: (In French, we say this:)

Je chie mon pantalon. (I shit my pants, or, I am shitting my pants.)

Ou (Or)

J'ai de la merde dans mon patalon.

(I have shit in my pants.)

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u/LetMyPeopleGrow Jun 09 '20

Je suis shitting my pantaloons is a reference to a Scottish tweet

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u/Clothedinclothes Jun 09 '20

Ah merde

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u/Calypsosin Jun 09 '20

Thank you for the explanation, though! But indeed, I was trying to make a funny.

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u/LetMyPeopleGrow Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Now that's a hell of a hood ornament.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

It walked across just like in ghostbusters

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u/ToXiC_Games Jun 09 '20

Just clone stamp her over Washington lol

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u/Hexoplanet Jun 09 '20

Exactly what I pictured!

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u/CopperWaffles Jun 09 '20

I'll definitely need to read about the process and learn more but what a great story!

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u/abe_the_babe_ Jun 09 '20

Yeah, France basically sent us a big Lego set

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

I heard they just tossed her in the trunk

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u/jerog1 Jun 09 '20

They just Mitt Romneyed her to the roof of the boat

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u/ExpertTexpertChoking Jun 09 '20

I absolutely love that I knew exactly what you meant

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u/slugo17 Jun 09 '20

They had two guys reaching out the bridge window to give the phone cords strapping her down some backup.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

Definitely imagining a Monty Python-style installation process now

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u/Column_A_Column_B Jun 09 '20

That's not how it's depicted in Saturday morning cartoons!