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General Erin- 06-02-2007
The Bling Skull

I'm oddly not too outraged or anything. I feel like I should, maybe. But I'm not. I'm more annoyed that he didn't just give all of those diamonds to ME.

psammead- 06-04-2007
Judge quotes 42 Beatles songs while passing a sentence
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"Such reasoning is Here, There And Everywhere. It does not require a Magical Mystery Tour of interpretation to know The Word means leave it alone. I trust we can all Come Together on that meaning.

"If I were to overlook your actions and Let It Be, I would ignore that Day In The Life on April 21, 2006.

"Evidently, earlier that night, you said to yourself I Feel Fine while drinking beer. Later, whether you wanted Money, or were just trying to Act Naturally, you became the Fool On The Hill on North 27th Street. As Mr Moonlight at 1.30am, you did not Think For Yourself but just focused on I, Me, Mine."


Just awesome.

bookworm- 06-04-2007
Man steals 8,00 pieces of women's clothing and lingerie so he can sleep buried in them every night.

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Wow.

oxymoron- 06-04-2007
So those roller skate/sneaker things *ARE* more than just annoying

Though this is my favorite line:

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“She wants them. Not happening. Just like I took away her trampoline” after reading about trampoline injuries. “It went right to Goodwill,” Catanese said.


So... trampolines are dangerous for your child but not for those who shop at Goodwill?

particle_person- 06-04-2007
QUOTE (psammead @ June 04, 2007 07:13 am)
Judge quotes 42 Beatles songs while passing a sentence

Uh oh. I think I know how that one's going to end:

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P.C. thirty one said "we've caught a dirty one"
Maxwell stands alone
Painting -*test*-('")imonial pictures, oh, oh, oh, oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free
The judge does not agree, and he tells them so-o-o-o
But, as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes form behind

Bang! Bang! Maxwell's silver hammer
came down upon his head
Clang! Clang! Maxwell's silver hammer
made sure that he was dead


ETA: About that spider living in the boy's ear? No, spiders don't eat earwax. Turns out the spider crawled in to shed its skin, not to take up residence.

General Erin- 06-04-2007
QUOTE (particle_person @ June 04, 2007 01:40 pm)
ETA: About that spider living in the boy's ear? No, spiders don't eat earwax. Turns out the spider crawled in to shed its skin, not to take up residence.

My original response to that story remains the same: AURGH. *shudder*

This should interest the literary Snarkers: 1000 historical letters found in laundry room of collector.

sagitare- 06-05-2007
QUOTE (particle_person @ June 04, 2007 01:40 pm)
ETA: About that spider living in the boy's ear? No, spiders don't eat earwax. Turns out the spider crawled in to shed its skin, not to take up residence.

Either way, it's still fucking gross. *shudder*

ETA: I was reading that story about the letters today and I kept imagining how excited that woman from Christie's must have been as she got working through all of them. I'm sure she'd get to a point where she thought she'd seen the rarest or most interesting one, and then she'd find something from Beethoven or whatever, and she'd just go *squeeee!* all over again! I thought it was a brilliant story.

psammead- 06-05-2007
QUOTE (General Erin @ June 05, 2007 05:37 am)
This should interest the literary Snarkers: 1000 historical letters found in laundry room of collector.

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Another lot of interest is a letter written by Ernest Hemingway to the American poet and critic Ezra Pound in 1925, explaining why bulls are better than literary critics.

"Bulls don't run reviews. Bulls of 25 don't marry old women of 55 and expect to be invited to dinner. Bulls do not get you cited as co-respondent in Society divorce trials. Bulls don't borrow money. Bulls are edible after they have been killed."


whatthedeuce- 06-05-2007
That fuckin' spider in the kid's ear story is honestly my worst ngihtmare come true. I've been scared of something like that happening to me since I was a kid, and I sometimes check for spiders above or near my bed before I go to sleep because of it.

psammead- 06-05-2007
World's largest penis, er, erected.

epudom- 06-07-2007
When 50 year marriages go bad

slmader- 06-07-2007
Woman arrested for making faces at police dog

tothemax- 06-07-2007
QUOTE (slmader @ June 07, 2007 08:42 am)
Woman arrested for making faces at police dog

They chared her with cruelty to a police animal? Ooooooookay.

epudom- 06-07-2007
God bless our Dutch cousins - Dutch students create powdered alcohol

psammead- 06-07-2007
QUOTE (General Erin @ June 03, 2007 03:39 am)
The Bling Skull

I'm oddly not too outraged or anything. I feel like I should, maybe. But I'm not. I'm more annoyed that he didn't just give all of those diamonds to ME.

I went to see this today. It's pretty awesome and recommended to anyone in London at the moment. Timed tickets so not much of a queue and then a bunch of us went into a very dark room (the door firmly locked behind us) and we all gazed in total silence at 50 squillion quids' worth of sparkliness. Obviously you have to take Hirst's word for it that it's genuine (and frankly I'd be highly amused if it were revealed as glass) but it's very pretty.

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