Talk:Spire of Dublin

Nickname

1 The principal nickname is "The Spike" by a long . . . chalk, the "Stilletto in the Ghetto" being one of the many secondary ones.

2 The people of Dublin spoke of "Nelson's Pillar" (as we speak of "The Botanical Gardens") but the official name was always "Nelson Pillar". (The gardens are Botanic, though the zoo is zoological.)

~Andrew Robinson

The spire's nickname seems to be constantly evolving. The Stiletto topped polls for the 'favourite nickname' about 6 months ago. Spike has become the common nickname since. Whether it will be in six months or something else will overtake it is anyone's guess. Plus also many people presumed the Spike is the real name (and it was considered as a possibility) while only the dumbest would presume the Stilletto in the Ghetto was the real name. STÓD/ÉÍRE 23:32 Mar 28, 2003 (UTC)

I removed the list of other Dublin monuments with nicknames - they have their own page. --Kwekubo 22:24, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

As early as 1999, when plans for the Spire were first shown, there was a lot of discussion on the subject. As a result, one Irish Times reader proposed 'The Pinnacle for the Cynicle' as a nickname.

What does this mean?

Some people around the world also watched live on webcam, a world first. Rich Farmbrough 16:16, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

lead graf

and just whose brilliant idea was it, lads, to use the term 'erection' in the first sentence?

Patrickbelton 23:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

The article uses the word "erection" five times, not counting the two occurrences in nicknames of the Spire. I don't think there's much doubt that it's deliberate. The second revision of the article (the first had only one sentence) already used "erection" four times in a very short article. So I think it was the brilliant idea of Jtdirl. Gareth McCaughan 18:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

slanty

The Henry Street image is definitely slanty. I've asked about five people and they all agree. Even held a ruler up to my laptop. So.... I tried rotating it in GIMP but I get some funny effects because of its low resolution and I don't want to end up using some kind of messy interpolation. Would anyone who's better at me at rotating images like to try? Otherwise I will take another picture myself. --Generalmiaow 23:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

It certainly made me feel slanty when I saw it for the first time. I stood at the base and looked straight up it and it gave me a very unsettling feeling of vertigo. Reverse vertigo as it were. I'll have a look and see if I have a photograph of it. Darkmind1970 09:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

There is indeed a visceral quality of slantiness in the experience of its viewing IRL. Also that Henry street image is much better now though, if a little artifacty. As for the I have a load of pictures like that which you describe from looking up the Spire and it appears to bend (though people keep telling me it doesn't). Not sure if it warrants inclusion, but it is one of the notable features of the monument that people are always standing around it staring up! (I remember hearing some young fellow saying Jaysus this is what I see every morning waking up) --General Miaow Say Hello! 22:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

designer/artist/architect?

Who designed this? It is not stated anywhere.

Another nickname for the Spire that I don't see listed here is "The Skewer near the Whore", with whore pronounced in an inner city Dublin accent to rhyme with skewer. This is in reference to the reclining statue of Anna Livia that was once located in the median of O' Connell St.

Edward Murray

Unsourced nicknames

I found a The Independent article which mentions some nicknames for the structure. I've cut the list of nicknames down to those mentioned in this article. I'm still not happy with this reference though, as it's entirely possible that the journalist sourced some of those names from this article. Better than nothing I suppose... Demiurge 18:30, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

is there any chance that Pfizer designed it and that it is a symbol of the power of the Pharmacutical industry in Ireland? Long live Depo Provera!! They should know they inject it into healthy females in Ireland. That is it is not a pin, it is the stiffy by the liffey, and intravenous needle.

Intravenous needles aren't conical, they are straight! There are actually very few pointy everyday objects I can think of which taper the way the spire does... the tip of a soldering iron maybe, or an ironic hair pin. --General Miaow Say Hello! 22:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

"The metal is a cameleon-color."

Steel, that is. Does the article's author really think that steel needs to be colored in a special way to be able to reflect the colors of the surroundings?

Dunno. Should we ask him/her?(Sarah777 (talk) 11:13, 17 November 2007 (UTC))

Millennium Spire

Does anyone else recall hearing the Spire called this back before/during its construction? As far as I know, a lot of people still use that name to refer to it. -Kuukai (talk) 16:27, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

I think 'Millennium Spire' is still the commonest name in local use after simply "the Spire". Sarah777 (talk) 18:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Nicknames

Do we need to list ever vulgar nickname the monument has? Yes I do mean vulgar, and no I'm not prude but aren't there standards on Wikipedia, I thought there was. Do we have to have a list of toilet like humour, juvenile names, that a few people think up and even fewer think are funny, and nobody uses on an everyday basis? Maybe someone should start on article called List of nicknames of the Spire, and divide them based on phallic/sexual/drugs/toilet humour etc? Would that be hil-arious? Excuse me a minute.... yes sorry, just had to pick myself up from the floor there! But anyway would any of these nicknames pass a notabilty test? I'd wager not! Snappy56 (talk) 19:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

duplicate

deleted duplicate lighting section. all the text was already in the detials setion