I had similar thoughts about the Beatles Monument in Ulan Bator. A signifier stretched to the point of having lost all significance.

Me in the Signal group chat, etc.

Although my advice to him about electrical safety evidently went unheeded.

I’m reminded that not that long ago my wife asked me, in apparent seriousness, why Duke Leto had a talking dog.

Obviously Richard I’s popularity is entirely the result of his once having been played on TV by the tremendously suave Julian Glover.