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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
Come to think of it, unions do create jobs. Companies have to hire two workers to do the work of one.

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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 »
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 »
I was thinking, after 90 years, the prick is still killing people!

Ain't that the communist way.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin