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Weird things you have read about. Page 68

Quote: Fred Sunshine @ March 25 2009, 4:02 PM GMT

Surprisingly, I think that's the only photo that I have of an eviromentallist & former politician about to slap the forehead of an 11 year old school kid.
But I could be wrong.

I've got one of Al Gore about to slap the head of ten year old girl if that's any help?

Quote: chipolata @ March 25 2009, 4:05 PM GMT

I've got one of Al Gore about to slap the head of ten year old girl if that's any help?

Al Gore slapped my son (his hand, actually) in 1992.

Quote: DaButt @ March 25 2009, 4:11 PM GMT

Al Gore slapped my son (his hand, actually) in 1992.

You should have shot him. :)

Quote: chipolata @ March 25 2009, 4:13 PM GMT

You should have shot him. :)

He was a weasel even back then, with a helper whispering his lines into his ear when he'd meet someone. I'm very happy he never became president.

Quote: Fred Sunshine @ March 24 2009, 9:31 PM GMT

A Spam is a little slap to the forehead.

Here is an example of a vintage 'Porrit Forehead'

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He is enjoying that way too much.

Spamhead, I remember that. :D

Quote: chipolata @ March 25 2009, 4:05 PM GMT

I've got one of Al Gore about to slap the head of ten year old girl if that's any help?

:D :D :D :D

MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for "The Three Stooges."

Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome "Curly" Howard.

The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe.

The film is not a biopic, but rather a comedy built around the antics of the three characters that Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Howard played in the Columbia Pictures shorts.

The quest by the Peter and Bobby Farrelly to harness the project spans more than a decade and three studios. They first tried at Columbia, again at Warner Bros., and finally at MGM, where Worldwide Motion Picture Group chairman Mary Parent championed the cause and bought the WB-owned scripts and made a deal with Stooges rights holders C3.

Production will begin in early fall for a release sometime in 2010. The Farrellys, who wrote the script, are producing with their Conundrum partner Bradley Thomas, and Charlie Wessler.

C3 Entertainment principals Earl and Robert Benjamin will be executive producers.

Project will get underway after Penn completes the Asger Leth-directed Universal/Imagine Entertainment drama "Cartel." He hasn't done a comedy since the 1989 laffer "We're No Angels."

The Farrellys have long had their eyes on Del Toro to play Moe. Del Toro, who's coming off "Che," showed comic chops in the Guy Ritchie-directed "Snatch."

The surprise is the emergence of Carrey to play Curly. Howard established the character as a seminal physical comedian, from the first time he appeared in the first Stooges short in 1934 until he suffered a stroke on the set in 1946.

http://www.variety.com/VR1118001643.html

Quote: zooo @ March 25 2009, 3:56 PM GMT

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7962573.stm

Aw.

6 miles of track!

Aw! Ace. :)

Quote: Fred Sunshine @ March 24 2009, 9:31 PM GMT

A Spam is a little slap to the forehead.

Here is an example of a vintage 'Porrit Forehead'

Image

That maybe the most nightmarish image on the entire internet.
It's like something out of Red Riding.

No one likes a speeding ticket.

But 47-year-old Michael Harold Lynch, of Bellevue, Wash., apparently took his anger to a new level when he emptied $206 in small change into a plastic bag, soaking it in urine and mailing it to the payments division of the Multnomah County courthouse. Mailroom staff handed over the box -- and the angry letter that accompanied it -- to a sheriff's sergeant.

"It was nasty. It reeked," said Sgt. Phil Anderchuk.

Anderchuk called a U.S. postal inspector to see if federal law had been broken, and learned that it's not against the law to mail a box of bodily fluids, as long as it's properly packed and doesn't emit an obnoxious odor. (Court staff could only smell the contents once they opened the package).

So the sergeant sealed up the box and mailed it back to Lynch -- with $27.30 postage due if Lynch wanted his change back.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/washington_man_streams_his_ang.html

This is superb. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7968655.stm

That really is absolutely brilliant.
And they did such a good job!

So much better than most 'pranksters', who would have just smashed a window or something. Shows some imagination!

Pity about the age of the place, mind...

Yes, but it will have been repainted (white) loads of times, so this won't really make any difference.

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