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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:04 PM
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Hikers Find 70 Shoes Filled With Butter
A Swedish couple hunting on a remote mountain Sunday in Sweden's far northern province of Jaemtland found 70 pairs of shoes, all filled with butter.

"If we knew who had done this we could make them clean this mess up," Alf Kjaellstroem, a province spokesman told The Associated Press Thursday. "It's not going to be pretty when the butter starts to rot. And we have to wait for the snow so we can get up there with the snowmobile."

The find was similar to one done by artist Yu Xiuzhen's in 1996.

His exhibit "Shoes With Butter," was laid out in the Tibetan mountains surrounding Lhasa, China.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031009_924.html
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:08 PM
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1. how weird
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:11 PM
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2. I just want to know
where they get the money with which to do this.

They say that a fool and his money are soon parted.
I just want to know how they got together in the first place and I solemnly promise to spend the cash on other stuff if you let me in on the secret.
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ender Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:36 PM
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9. money?
unless they were all prada shoes, this whole stunt could be done with less than $100.
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kurtyboy Donating Member (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 10:39 PM
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25. I always heard it differently
Edited on Thu Oct-09-03 10:40 PM by kurtyboy
A fool and his money are soon partying....
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Eat_The_Rich Donating Member (106 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:34 PM
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33. Either that or...
bomb some third world country into oblivion.
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Jack The Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:13 PM
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3. The ghost of Joseph Bueys...
What a scam that was...
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:15 PM
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4. Ah, yes, modern art . . .
too often, it's the art of bullshit.
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Jonte_1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:19 PM
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6. I think it is very profound
Edited on Thu Oct-09-03 03:19 PM by Jonte_1979
Seventy shoes filled with butter.

Let it sink in for a while.:D
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:44 PM
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11. ...okay...I've let it sink in....
Idoan geddit.
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 04:54 PM
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14. Where's Sister Randy when you need her?
Apparently the schizophrenic crackmonkey was allowed to make art again.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:15 PM
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5. perfect example of stupid art
.
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:33 PM
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7. 35 Republicans melted. A miracle of extraordinary magnitude!
Edited on Thu Oct-09-03 03:34 PM by karlschneider
:D
edit; oops, 70 PAIRSs...so 70 repugs...
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:35 PM
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8. we could only be so lucky!
:bounce:
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 01:10 AM
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28. LOL ! "I'm melting.... melting... Oh what a world..."
Thanks for the visual!
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 03:37 PM
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10. Hey, that was the rapture. If you're reading this now, it's too late
Everything from here on out is just tribulation.
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davhill Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 04:05 PM
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12. That explains a lot about what's been happing lately
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 04:43 PM
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13. It came and went and I'm still here
Oh well.



Btw, BEST answer!
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 12:47 AM
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26. and what a coincidence
That all 70 saved people happened to be in the mountains in Sweden....

:-)
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 05:15 PM
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15. Hmmmm
Edited on Thu Oct-09-03 05:15 PM by Stevie D
Shades of Marshall Herff Applewhite....
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 05:17 PM
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16. It's dada - you're not supposed to understand it
Or there's a Zen-like meaning that you have to grok.

I heard last night that Cristo is going to wrap Snoopy's doghouse.

I have no idea - and I like and understand modern art.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 05:59 PM
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18. Next thing you know, someone will hang a urinal in an art gallery
:)

While DuChampe's 'Fountain' had more explicit meaning, some dada seems to just want to make you go, "What the Fu........?".

It's that :wtf: moment when you've 'skipped out of your groove' that dada seems to want to create.

And I have to say, 70 shoes filled with butter arranged on a remote mountainside certainly makes me go:

:wtf:
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ParanoidPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 05:26 PM
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17. His last exhibit, 'Sneakers with Toe Jam'.....
.....really stank! :evilgrin:
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 06:18 PM
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19. Nope, not dada
There's no cognitive dissonance there... just nasal distress.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 06:22 PM
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20. are they SURE they're filled with butter?
what if something inert is inside them, with a little butter smeared on top to make them LOOK like they're filled with butter? did they stick a knife in them?
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snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 07:41 PM
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22. Maybe it is the missing WMD.
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karlschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 08:49 PM
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23. Or maybe someone was just expecting lots of hikers with toast...
:eyes:
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 07:04 PM
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21. Ya' know, I don't care about weirdo "art"...
but f'er cryin' out loud, clean up your mess. It is plain disrespectful to leave this stuff where people are trying to enjoy nature.
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Fozzledick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-09-03 10:25 PM
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24. I don't quite understand your post
Exactly how is this Israel's fault?:shrug:
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 12:57 AM
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27. I don't get why the province chief is so upset
animals will probably eat the tasty buttered shoes before they rot, they're like twinkies or eclaires.

And even if they rot, it's a remote mountain, who's going to smell it?
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Dr Fate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 01:12 AM
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29. I prefer toe-Jam to shoe butter myself...n/t
...
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tlb Donating Member (611 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 01:23 AM
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30. Quick, prepare 30 loaves of toast
Waste not, want not.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 02:40 AM
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31. I think it was magic elves!


http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~senglish/elves_and_the_shoemaker.html
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-03 10:30 PM
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32. Uh-uh. Underpants gnomes.
SK.
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