I love these old animal shaped downspouts

[boingboing]

Originally published at: I love these old animal shaped downspouts - Boing Boing

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[FGD135]

We’ll, we don’t call it Wasserhahn for nothing.

[theophrastus]

gargoyle (n.)
“grotesque carved waterspout,” connected to the gutter of a building to throw down water clear of the wall, common in 13c.-16c. buildings; late 13c., gargoile, also garguile, gargule, etc., “carved mouth of a rain spout, a gargoyle,” from Old French gargole, gargoule “throat;” also “carved downspout,” in the form of a serpent or some other fanciful shape, also from Medieval Latin gargola, gargulio (see gargle (v.)).

[FSogol]

This isn’t hers, but my grandmother used old rubber boots for the downspouts.
Hers would have been held in place with a scrap of an old leather belt.

[Serge]

Why did you include a picture of an ordinary water spigot?

[bashful]

Back in 2002, we visited Paris and I spotted this fancy downspout on a corner of the Louvre. Even the pipes were fancy carved.

[anon3072533]

@FGD135

We’ll, we don’t call it Wasserhahn for nothing.

Ah, Google Translate just gives “water tap” or “faucet”… I had to look around a bit more to find that the literal translation to English is “water rooster”

[anon77190095]

@theophrastus

gargoule “throat;

and from that, gargle