OMG! Nebraska!

[El Supremo]

http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/omahan-says-controversial-license-plate-is-based-on-his-design/article_153e3140-f824-11e5-b607-3bde3634c382.html?mode=image&photo=1

[Trajan]

1. Wait ... They are simulating an ... elephant trunk ... right ?

Looks like one to me ....

Or holding a honeydew melon in his shirt .... right ?

Right ?

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Its clearly a lute player standing on a cupcake

What the hell is wrong with you?

[TexasTowelie]

5. See post #3.

[TexasTowelie]

3. I saw the story about the license plate over a week ago.

http://democratsforever.freeforums.net/thread/5758/critics-deride-nebraska-license-plates

It is a depiction of "The Sower" statue that is at the top of the Nebraska Capitol and fits with the farming tradition in the state.

[uppityperson]

6. He's obviously holding an apron and tossing seeds, but people have dirty minds.

I got it right away.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Yes, that Capitol Building is affectionately known as The Penis of the Prairies

http://www.nigel-roberts.info/nebraska-unicameral-legislature.htm


With a better view

[Ilsa]

9. I like the alliteration of

"Prick of the Prairies" better, but penis will do just fine.

[mnhtnbb]

10. haha

We lived in Lincoln from 1994-2000 and I couldn't believe it when I first heard it!

[onethatcares]

19. who got the

contract to build that political castle? There must have been great
bags of dinero passed for that one.

[VOX]

4. And his fingers are telltale non-stubby as well...

But, y'know...cornhuskers

[PatrickforO]

7. It is a guy with an apron filled with seeds he's sowing.

It's a farm thing. C'mon.

Minds out of the gutter, for gosh sake.

[imanamerican63]

11. I wonder if Trump had anything to do with this?

I am from Omaha and will stick to my old plates, thank you! What an embarrassment!

[madinmaryland]

12. Alerting! This belongs in the Sports Group. You missed the Ace Reporter

appearance tonite.

[hibbing]

13. I'm in Lincoln

It is a poor depiction of the sower imho, our governor is an inherited money gazillionaire and a colossal delta bravo. The capitol building is quite cool btw.

Peace

[Nac Mac Feegle]

14. The Sower is the statue Lon the top of the state capitol building

The building was designed by Gutson Borglum, famous for designing another famous landmark. Mount Rushmore.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. No. Borglum was not involved.

The Architect
Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue

Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue was born in Pomfret, Connecticut on April 28, 1869. His early years were spent studying the arts and humanities at home. From his study of the classics, Goodhue learned of the great architectural styles and monuments of the ages. He later used this classical foundation in the design of the Nebraska State Capitol.

http://capitol.nebraska.gov/index.php/building/history/team

[AxionExcel]

17. ...and yet Nebraska is not The Sower state. It's the Cornhusker State.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

15. That statue reminds me of Tiny Tim?

[onethatcares]

18. bowling

with a long skirt on.


What did I win?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

20. OK - first - it's going to be redesigned

Second -- get your minds out of the gutter. It's the Golden Sower. He resides atop our state capitol. He is sowing grain seed.

Some people. Geeze.

[panader0]

21. For some reason it reminded me of this: