Monday, January 24, 2011

A Surprise at the Old State House

A two-headed calf?

A museum of oddities occupied the top floor of the State House back in 1800.  A featured oddity was a calf with two heads.

When the Old State House was renovated, they recreated the exhibitions of the museum.  A farmer in Michigan donated this two-headed calf to the exhibition, to replace the long-lost original two-headed calf.

So, does the seat of government in your state or country have anything stuffed and two-faced?  Other than the legislators?

12 comments:

Michelle said...

Oh dear....

Genie -- Paris and Beyond said...

Jack, you beat me to the punch line! Stuffed and two-faced, indeed! I think that everyone might say this about their politicians... I am not sure what is in our state house but I do not think that it is a two-headed calf...

Welcome to Monday!
Genie

Cezar and Léia said...

Interesting point here! I think it's better say nothing about legislators now! :)
And about here in Europe, I'm almost a tourist! LOL
Léia

Lois said...

I'll have to make a trip downtown to the Florida Capitol to see what I can find (other than the legislators and our new governor of course)!

lizziviggi said...

Aw, what a sweet face...er... I mean faces!

Halcyon said...

We have two capitol buildings, the old historic one and a new one. I have never really been in the new one b/c it's only open during office hours when I work! The historic one has wax figures of real-fake senators and such. But I haven't seen any strange exhibits like this!

EG CameraGirl said...

Very odd indeed!

cieldequimper said...

If it exists in humans, why shouldn't it exist in cows? It does look weird though.

Youth_in_Asia said...

Hahaha, I love this post. Too funny.It does look a bit strange. Maybe they should place the oddities at the polling places during elections to draw out more voters. It's the type of gimmick that just might work.

Regina K said...

Interesting, at the State House...

Randy said...

For a second there I thought my god I am really wiped out. Poor thing. I am taking a beginning Adobe Flash class. It's going to be a challenge.

VP said...

This is very strange, politicians apart we don't have anything like that...