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This week, a skull in a garden. Thanks to all who entered. The prize of a small amount of kudos to the following:
6. Tremorman
If proof was needed, here it is - grass messes with your head.
5. BeckySnow
Garden furniture for children by Marilyn Manson.
4. Pendragon
"Hey, George! Come and see what that little Gormley kid's done next door."
3. Karen
The world's largest Pez sweet dispenser is currently being constructed in England.
2. grazvalentine
Dr Gunther von Hagens' garden shed.
1. Neil
"I'm starting to wonder about the wisdom of asking Damien Hirst to design the kiddy-fun-park..."
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Comment number 1.
At 24th Jun 2010, spherodynamicklutz wrote:Psychiatrists think they have finally solved the puzzle over just how you get inside someone's head
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Comment number 2.
At 24th Jun 2010, Mr Snoozy wrote:"Oh look, there's granddad - we buried him in the sand there in 1983!"
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At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:Cezanne was here
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Comment number 4.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:When Easter Island just isn't in the budget
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Comment number 5.
At 24th Jun 2010, rogueslr wrote:On me head son!
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Comment number 6.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:It's a Mr Death or something...
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At 24th Jun 2010, rogueslr wrote:Finally, Giles and Chalkie get a fitting tribute.
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Comment number 8.
At 24th Jun 2010, Gray Gable wrote:Fabio Capello ponders the 4-4-2 stairway to heaven formation..
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At 24th Jun 2010, Catherine O wrote:Where do you go to, my lovely?
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Comment number 10.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:What makes you think there are pirates about?
There just AAAR...
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Comment number 11.
At 24th Jun 2010, rogueslr wrote:In five hundred years this going to really screw up a future Tony Robinson and 'Time Team'.
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Comment number 12.
At 24th Jun 2010, Catherine O wrote:You didn't notice anything strange on your way home from the pub did you, darling?
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Comment number 13.
At 24th Jun 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:Whoever sculpted that needs his head examined
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Comment number 14.
At 24th Jun 2010, spherodynamicklutz wrote:If you have a skeleton key, you can get in the door at the back
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Comment number 15.
At 24th Jun 2010, Mr Snoozy wrote:Public sector pay is frozen for three years and Iain Duncan Smith has been cut back to the bare bone.
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Comment number 16.
At 24th Jun 2010, rogueslr wrote:Well, we think he used to be the Mister Big in the Neolithic period.
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Comment number 17.
At 24th Jun 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:Who made that? The head gardener?
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Comment number 18.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:If the Grateful Dead did playgrounds
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Comment number 19.
At 24th Jun 2010, Mr Snoozy wrote:The only way to get a-Head in the gardening trade?..
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Comment number 20.
At 24th Jun 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:I said I wanted to be a botanist, not a lobotomist
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Comment number 21.
At 24th Jun 2010, Gray Gable wrote:Memorial to a stripper gone too far..
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Comment number 22.
At 24th Jun 2010, rogueslr wrote:Halloween Ten, Beyond 3D.
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Comment number 23.
At 24th Jun 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:At least there aren't sny fairies at the TOP of the garden
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Comment number 24.
At 24th Jun 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:You've been on eBay again, haven't you?
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Comment number 25.
At 24th Jun 2010, Catherine O wrote:Osteoporosis wasn't a problem for Grandma... reading the instructions for the calcium tablets was another matter though.
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Comment number 26.
At 24th Jun 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:At least there aren't sny fairies at the HEAD of the garden
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Comment number 27.
At 24th Jun 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Phrenology for fun and profit
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Comment number 28.
At 24th Jun 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:Percy Thrower's burial place finally discovered
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Comment number 29.
At 24th Jun 2010, rogueslr wrote:But on the positive side, it does keep the cats out of the flower beds.
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Comment number 30.
At 24th Jun 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Landscaping by Damien Hirst
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Comment number 31.
At 24th Jun 2010, Nick Fowler wrote:George often went for a crafty drink in his shed - at least he could say he wasn't out of his skull
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Comment number 32.
At 24th Jun 2010, ARoseByAnyOther wrote:Grandad's relatives were growing impatient about their inheritances
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Comment number 33.
At 24th Jun 2010, SkarloeyLine wrote:Killing Hagrid off wasn't going to blight the Harry Potter theme park.
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At 24th Jun 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:It looks as if Rover has been digging up bones again
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Comment number 35.
At 24th Jun 2010, SkarloeyLine wrote:Court No 2 wasn't nicknamed "the graveyard" for nothing.
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Comment number 36.
At 24th Jun 2010, Gray Gable wrote:Everyone comes to he who waits. And waits..
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Comment number 37.
At 24th Jun 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:I said I wanted geraniums planted ... not craniums!
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Comment number 38.
At 24th Jun 2010, BaldoBingham wrote:Global warming, the untold dangers.
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Comment number 39.
At 24th Jun 2010, PPD wrote:How to get a head in gardening
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Comment number 40.
At 24th Jun 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:What makes you think we went the wrong way in the hedge maze?
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Comment number 41.
At 24th Jun 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:This must be the Peter Crouch Memorial Garden
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Comment number 42.
At 24th Jun 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:Look what those foxes have done to my Granma
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Comment number 43.
At 24th Jun 2010, Gray Gable wrote:How to get inside the mind of a long dead pilot..
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Comment number 44.
At 24th Jun 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:I told you those goldfish you put in the pond had awfully big teeth ...
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Comment number 45.
At 24th Jun 2010, PPD wrote:The great thing about playing on grass is the bonce.
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At 24th Jun 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:And wait until you see what we did with the rest of his bits...
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Comment number 47.
At 24th Jun 2010, PPD wrote:Boy, your new dog can't half dig!
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Comment number 48.
At 24th Jun 2010, Valerie Ganne wrote:OK, but the cheap weed-killer is just as good as the expensive stuff, you said ...
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Comment number 49.
At 24th Jun 2010, spherodynamicklutz wrote:They had an enormous hole to dig to lay the foundations but there was always an expert in skulduggery present
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Comment number 50.
At 24th Jun 2010, PPD wrote:If Andy Warhol had worked for B&Q...
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Comment number 51.
At 24th Jun 2010, Gray Gable wrote:Wembley’s head groundsman wore a worried expression..
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Comment number 52.
At 24th Jun 2010, Gray Gable wrote:In the distance, a vulture realised that *this* was his lucky day..
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Comment number 53.
At 24th Jun 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:And let that be a lesson to the rest of you
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Comment number 54.
At 24th Jun 2010, Raven Clare wrote:When The Elephant Man donated his body to science, he hadn't expected his head to be given to botanists
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Comment number 55.
At 24th Jun 2010, MightyGiddyUpGal wrote:It's going to be a rather shorter version of the 'Dem bones' song I'm afraid.
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Comment number 56.
At 24th Jun 2010, Raven Clare wrote:The Mafia exacted swift retribution to anyone who failed to observe their Law'n Order
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Comment number 57.
At 24th Jun 2010, spherodynamicklutz wrote:I was too lazy to worship false gods while alive but I'm bone idol in death.
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Comment number 58.
At 24th Jun 2010, PPD wrote:There was an old woman who lived in a skull
Who had so many children it just wouldn't rhyme
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Comment number 59.
At 24th Jun 2010, Raven Clare wrote:The Mafia exacted swift retribution to anyone who failed to observe their Law'n Order
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Comment number 60.
At 24th Jun 2010, Raven Clare wrote:Dyde Park
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Comment number 61.
At 24th Jun 2010, MorningGlories wrote:How Hannibal Lecter's garden grows.
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Comment number 62.
At 24th Jun 2010, Raven Clare wrote:In an effort to stop theft, Barclay's unveil their new Hole in the Head ATM
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Comment number 63.
At 24th Jun 2010, schlimmbesserung wrote:Socket to me!
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Comment number 64.
At 24th Jun 2010, Kipson wrote:The Green Giant hadn't been so jolly recently.
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Comment number 65.
At 24th Jun 2010, MorningGlories wrote:Addams Family gardeners
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Comment number 66.
At 24th Jun 2010, BaldoBingham wrote:With a skull that big, no wonder Aeschylus was a sitting target for any passing eagle with a spare turtle to crack.
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At 24th Jun 2010, Raven Clare wrote:That explains why Mary was quite contrary
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Comment number 68.
At 24th Jun 2010, schlimmbesserung wrote:This was undoubtedly the most difficult hole on the new mini golf course
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Comment number 69.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:You don't think the poison control warning is too suble, then?
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Comment number 70.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:You don't think the poison control warning is too subtle, then?
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Comment number 71.
At 24th Jun 2010, BaldoBingham wrote:Darling, what did you say our new neighbour, Mr Silver, did for a living?
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Comment number 72.
At 24th Jun 2010, Kudosless wrote:But he seemed fine when he started watching the Mahut v Isner match.
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Comment number 73.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:Sometimes I think I'm a fatalist. But then again, even if I were, what could I do about it?
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Comment number 74.
At 24th Jun 2010, spacelizards wrote:One-upping the Jones' for the local open gardens day got harder each year.
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Comment number 75.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:Oh, that remonds me, the taxes are due.
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Comment number 76.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:Oh, that reminds me, the taxes are due.
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Comment number 77.
At 24th Jun 2010, JimmyG wrote:The new playground slide was missing a key feature...
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Comment number 78.
At 24th Jun 2010, Steele Hawker wrote:Hey did anybody get the number of that lawn-mower?
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Comment number 79.
At 24th Jun 2010, schlimmbesserung wrote:Looks like the gardener has overdone the bone meal fertiliser on the lawn again.
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At 24th Jun 2010, littleDickie wrote:All this, and getting ahead as well..Jolly Good!
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Comment number 81.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:Yes, the funeral director is an avid gardener.
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Comment number 82.
At 24th Jun 2010, Steele Hawker wrote:The park was beautiful, considering there was only the head gardener and a skeleton staff
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At 24th Jun 2010, Kudosless wrote:Did you remember to do the dead-heading?
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At 24th Jun 2010, JimmyG wrote:"...and Hogwarts forever more can be reminded of the great man that was Hagrid!"
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At 24th Jun 2010, Steele Hawker wrote:And this is the Anne Boleyn Garden
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At 24th Jun 2010, schlimmbesserung wrote:One minute he was practising on his vuvuzela, the next he'd blown his brains out
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Comment number 87.
At 24th Jun 2010, JimmyG wrote:With the new x-ray microscope, they could finally work out just how small Rooney's brain was
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Comment number 88.
At 24th Jun 2010, Kudosless wrote:Capello has Terry reprogrammed
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Comment number 89.
At 24th Jun 2010, Steele Hawker wrote:Napes and ladders
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Comment number 90.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:So it's been a long night and something ain't right...
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Comment number 91.
At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:What makes you think the gardener's depressed?
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Comment number 92.
At 24th Jun 2010, Steele Hawker wrote:Grass cede
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Comment number 93.
At 24th Jun 2010, Kudosless wrote:This wasn't quite the prominent position for which Menzies Campbell was hoping.
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At 24th Jun 2010, schlimmbesserung wrote:The Jones family proudlu show their new fixed gaze-bo
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At 24th Jun 2010, Steele Hawker wrote:And this is the Monument to the Unknown French Aristocrat
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At 24th Jun 2010, LaurenceLane wrote:It's dedicated to Worthing's Neighbourhood Watch scheme.
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At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:It was not looking good for General McChrystal as he was invited to the White House Rose Garden.
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At 24th Jun 2010, Candace9839 wrote:An Indiana Jones fan are we?
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At 24th Jun 2010, LaurenceLane wrote:I'm only here for the bier.
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At 24th Jun 2010, Billynug wrote:Poor Yorick, alas, was too big to get into the theatre
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