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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. | {{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. | ||
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 | 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. | ||
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 | 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 I didn’t warn you.” | |||
The administrators of 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]] | *[[Middle management]] | ||
*[[Chicken licken]] | |||