Have you ever been to Bratislava?
I haunt the SomethingAwful site frequently and this guy struck me as familiar as well. I actually thought it was some WWI memorial!
Turns out, after some digging, it's fairly prosaic....
Statue of manhole entry in Slovakia.
Found it on one of those "of course there had to be website for this!" sites -
SewerHistory.Org[/quote]
Ah you kidding? I had to Google it (Bratislava) just find out where it was! (Although I did guess somewhere around Russia, so I wasn't too far off.)
It's a neat fact though, thanks for telling me about it.