Removing the Muck

A New York City junk dealer was cleaning out an old warehouse, and among all the debris was a statue sitting in a corner covered by years of dirt, grime and pigeon droppings. At the end of the day, the dealer looked at his watch and realized it was too late to take the old statue to the wrecking yard where he could have cashed it in for scrap metal. So he loaded it in the back of his truck and took it back to his shop. He unloaded it and thought, This thing looks cool. He turned a hose on it and attacked it with a scrub brush and a bucket of suds. When he finished, he stood back and said, "Shoot, this thing looks way cool!"