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Offline bijou

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Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« on: August 10, 2009, 12:49:52 PM »
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MINSK, Belarus  —  Belarusian officials says that a massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it, killing him on the spot.

The Emergency Situations ministry said Monday that the 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed onto the five-meter (16-feet)-high plaster monument early Monday and hung from its arm. It then broke into pieces and he was crushed. ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538789,00.html?test=latestnews

Somewhere in this story is a metaphor struggling to get out.
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2009, 12:54:03 PM »
I was hoping this story was set in Seattle. 
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2009, 01:02:17 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on August 10, 2009, 12:54:03 PM
I was hoping this story was set in Seattle. 

The one in Seattle is bronze.
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2009, 01:24:07 PM »
Quote from: bijou on August 10, 2009, 12:49:52 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538789,00.html?test=latestnews

Somewhere in this story is a metaphor struggling to get out.
Yeah, like, hang around with communists for long enough and your mind will likely get crushed by their insane ideals.

Or, something like that...
« Last Edit: August 10, 2009, 01:34:30 PM by Happy Fun Ball »
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2009, 02:12:24 PM »
Quote from: Happy Fun Ball on August 10, 2009, 01:24:07 PM
Yeah, like, hang around with communists for long enough and your mind will likely get crushed by their insane ideals.

Or, something like that...
That's the ticket, I just couldn't quite formulate something.  :-)
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2009, 02:26:42 PM »
Now that's irony.  It would have been bronzy, but they couldn't afford it.

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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2009, 06:45:23 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on August 10, 2009, 12:54:03 PM
I was hoping this story was set in Seattle. 

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We even ordered a statue of Lenin and then ****ing dropped in the middle of town as a warning to would-be socialists.

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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2009, 09:22:35 PM »
How long before we have "stimulus funds" spent for huge bronze statues of the jug-eared Kenyan?
Maybe one for each state capital, each county courthouse lawn and selected city parks?
The plaque could just read "The One". After all, he's bigger than LeBron.
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2009, 10:17:42 AM »
Someone tell Mr. Potato Head that there's a vacant pedestal in Belarus that's in need of a statue.
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 10:49:06 AM »
Lenin....90 years later and he's still putting down dissent the communist way.
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2009, 08:04:20 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on August 11, 2009, 10:49:06 AM
Lenin....90 years later and he's still putting down dissent the communist way.

I was thinking, after 90 years, the prick is still killing people!
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Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2009, 01:07:04 AM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on August 12, 2009, 08:04:20 PM
I was thinking, after 90 years, the prick is still killing people!

Ain't that the communist way.
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