Just the statue of some dude.
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Can't remember his name, but he won the 1874 World Gurning Championships.
Isn't that Christopher Wren?
Er... The statue is Christopher Wren, not the "1874 World Gurning Champion", whatever that is.
Braxton obviously is not using a Mac, with its handy-dandy control-command-d shortcut.
Gurning: Making a grotesque face.
Not Wren.
Darn.
Margaret Thatcher?
Richard Owen?
John Cleese.
Isaac Newton.
Geronimo
Peter Griffin.
The bollocks on his chin are a dead giveaway.
I think John Lynch is right:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Old_Owen@72.jpg
I posted the answer at the start of the next picture quiz. The short answer is that Lynch is indeed correct.
Yea me!
So what do I win?
:)
The motivation to say "Yea me!" That's enough, surely.
In Wikipedia's entry for Owen, I found this reference to him:
Darwin commented that "I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last days of my life".
:) Isaac Newton :)