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[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by bilmore
"An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma'ariv newspaper. Itzik Simowitz of the southern city of Beersheba contends the shop cheated him because the Galerita-type cockatoo not only failed to utter a word when he got it home, but was also extremely ill. Mr. Simowitz adds that the shop owner assured him the parrot was not ill but merely needed time to adjust to its new environment."

He's not dead. He's just pining for the fjords.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
"An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma'ariv newspaper. Itzik Simowitz of the southern city of Beersheba contends the shop cheated him because the Galerita-type cockatoo not only failed to utter a word when he got it home, but was also extremely ill. Mr. Simowitz adds that the shop owner assured him the parrot was not ill but merely needed time to adjust to its new environment."

He should have bought a Blue Norwegian.

[ltl/fb]

fucking closed just because it's a fucking fake "holiday." The Other Place tried to seduce me by giving me a free extra shot, but their coffee still tastes like shit. Fucking fuckers.

Fuck.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
The other day, I was feeling kind of sick. Scratchy throat. Maybe even a touch feverish. But I decided to go to spin class anyway. Well, as fate would have it, this was the day the teacher decided to really push it out. I mean, really really push it out. I was weak and did not have my usual spinning spark. By minute 40, I thought I might have to call it a day. But when she called out the three minute standing sprint, it was like I was temporarily transformed. I reached deep inside myself, and found a reserve of strength and energy and courage that I previously did not know existed. I am not sure that "heroic" is the right word to describe the situation, but nor I am sure that it is not.

Anyway, after class I was describing to a couple of others how I was a little sick and feeling low during the class. They accused me of "playing it up" and said I could not have really been sick given my performance in class. But sure enough, I took my temperature when I got home. A fever of 101.

I suppose if you have never been in the position where you have had to reach deep inside yourself to find that reserve, it would be easy to be skeptical of Schilling or Jordan - to think they were overstating the pain and the weakness for the sake of drama. But let's just say that I would not be so quick to judge until you have been in their shoes.

I'm guessing TM has been in Michael Jordan's shoes at some point.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Nice try, Adderwhiff, but as usual you are missing the point. First, the fact that some likely pungent foreigners have set up base in Manhattan for some period of time does not make them any less foreign or any less smelly. Second, to spend that much money in Manhattan, whether it is your own or not, and to use it for some saffron, art fag, monument to your own ego instead of for something like, um, a firemen's widow relief fund, is nothing less than an affront to the city.

Oh relax. Like I'm some boorish hick if I don't "get" the art of wrapping outdoor stuff up. Huh! If that's the case, 90% of (straight) men are boorish hicks as most secretly admit to thinking modern art is crap (unless its boobies in cubist style or something and the ratio is good). And its the self-important musings that turn me off to Christo (probably because there is something vaguely French about it). Like the artist decrying the use of "labels" (horror!) in art and dismissively insisting that if you MUST, I mean MUST, "label" his art he prefers "environmental art."



Environmental art, my ass. These bozos tie up traffic and waste money.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
The only saving grace is that this little putz Christo is being hounded by commoners asking if they can purchase (ICK, THE BOUGEOIS!) one of the er...Sari-thingeys...and he has had to get all pissy about it on his website. Heh.

All of these shrouds ending up as backyard patio shades scattered across American suburbia would be the most delicious statement about Christos' art yet.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by bilmore
All of these shrouds ending up as backyard patio shades scattered across American suburbia would be the most delicious statement about Christos' art yet.

The website says that the material will be recylced, so they'll end up everywhere.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
[replying to PLF's response to adder]:

Oh relax. Like I'm some boorish hick if I don't "get" the art of wrapping outdoor stuff up. ...

DK = adder? This explains a lot.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
DK = adder? This explains a lot.

Who better to fight with than myself??

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The website says that the material will be recylced, so they'll end up everywhere.

Even better. Eight million Wal-Mart Halloween costumes partially made of Christo's art.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by bilmore
Even better. Eight million Wal-Mart Halloween costumes partially made of Christo's art.

Your next beer will contain some H2O from Hitler's bathwater. Irony doesn't work at the molecular level.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Environmental art, my ass. These bozos tie up traffic and waste money.

What distinguishes art from other human creations is that it's useless. This criticism is therefore not particularly apt.

[Diane_Keaton]

Originally posted by bilmore
All of these shrouds ending up as backyard patio shades...would be the most delicious statement about Christos' art yet.

Or as socks sold on Ebay or something.

Diane Keaton (giant puppetmaster of Adder)

[Adder]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Or as socks sold on Ebay or something.

Diane Keaton (giant puppetmaster of Adder)

Excuse my my little plaything, but I think we know who the master is.

Ad(why not leave myself softballs)der

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Your next beer will contain some H2O from Hitler's bathwater. Irony doesn't work at the molecular level.

Does that apply to everyone's bath water?


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