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{{a|glossary|[[File:Statueoflimitations.png|450px|thumb|center|Two vast & trunkless legs of stone yesterday]]}}The statue of limitations was a colossal marble erection, five hundred cubits in height, that was expected to bestride the entrance to the Cycladean harbour of Santorini for a thousand years as a primordial testament to the perennial uselessness of humankind but which, in a bout of titanic irony collapsed under its own weight a week or so after completion, killing its sculptor and the entire race of proto-Greek epicureans who conceived of it.
{{a|myth|[[File:Statueoflimitations.png|450px|thumb|center|Two vast & trunkless legs of stone, yesterday]]}}The statue of limitations was a colossal marble erection, five hundred cubits in height, that was expected to bestride the entrance to the Cycladean harbour of Santorini for a thousand years as a primordial testament to the perennial uselessness of humankind.
 
In a titanic bout of irony, the statue collapsed under its own weight a week or so after completion, killing King Ozymandias who commissioned it and the entire race of proto-Greek epicureans who conceived of it.
 
As the marble hunks fell like great meteors into the sea around them the people cried, “hark! [[Chicken licken|The sky is falling upon our heads]]!”
 
Their lawyers said, “well, don’t say we didn’t warn you.”
 
In the ensuing weeks and months, administrators of King Ozymandias’ estate lodged a claim against the sculptor, but due to a succession of bureaucratic misunderstandings and clerical mishaps, delayed filing their claim until, in a further compounding irony, it was thrown out by the Greek courts as being time-barred under the [[Statute of Limitations]].
 
In a final irony, none of the people responsible for either the commissioning of the sculpture, its [[negligent]] construction much less the pursuit of the claim felt the twisted lip or sneer of cold command (that is, no-one got sacked), and instead enjoyed long, rewarding careers in [[middle management]].


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*[[Limitation Act 1980]] a.k.a. the [[Statute of limitations]]
*[[Limitation Act 1980]] a.k.a. the [[Statute of limitations]]
*[[Middle management]]
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