Life imitating Life: Faux Pas, Numpties and Ouch!

[Mr T.]

Proof just in....."Buddhah was NOT a pacifist..."




LAS VEGAS -- Rick Roufus, left, delivers a blow to the body of Taro Akebono of Japan during the third round of the K-1 Battle of Bellagio III at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Roufus won the fight by a unanimous decision. (08/07/04 AP photo)

[Mr T.]

"And you though Tracy Emin and Damien Hurst were shite...."




NEW YORK -- Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro regards his finished work of art, a bed with more than 300 pounds of sliced ham, at a gallery in New York. Cavallaro, 41, the son of immigrants from southern Italy, said the ham is "a pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiled and pressed together." Despite his Italian heritage and training in an Italian art school, Cavallaro said he had rejected Prosciutto because "It would have been pompous." (06/03/04 AP photo)

[Bren's edit: you just gotta love this for unwitting self-directed irony - 'Despite his Italian heritage and training in an Italian art school, Cavallaro said he had rejected Prosciutto because "It would have been pompous."' ]

[Mr T.]

"Donkey! Woof! Bark(ing)!



BOSTON -- An X-Ray, made of the stomach of a 62-year-old man who came to the emergency room of Cholet General Hospital in western France in 2002. He had a history of major psychiatric illness, was suffering from stomach pain, and could not eat or move his bowels. Doctors discovered an enormous opaque mass in his stomach that turned out to weigh 12 pounds. The patient had swallowed around 350 coins, along with assorted necklaces and needles. (02/18/04 The New England Journal of Medicine 2004)

[Mr T.]

"Hit me! Hit me! Take it to the bridge! Oowww! I f-e-e-l good, yer knew that I would now....."

James Brown: 'The Godfather of Parole'



AIKEN, S.C. -- Soul singer James Brown , in this Aiken County Sheriff's Office photo, was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004, and charged with criminal domestic violence. (01/28/04)

[Mr T.]

"SO that's how Bush scraped home...?"

[Mr T.]

"I'm just a twat....well, me and Michael 'Berlin Balcony-scene' Jackson."



BRISBANE, Australia -- Australian Steve Irwin, famous for his TV show "The Crocodile Hunter" cradles his month-old son, Robert, under one arm and feeds piece of meat to a 13-foot crocodile in an image from television at his Australia Zoo reptile park in Brisbane, Australia. (01/02/04 AP photo)

[angleseydiver]

No need to apologise Bren!

[Zdu]

"The emergency exits are situated hereeeeargh!!!"

[jamesp]

what happens when the wheels fall off, just really does not do that last one justice!

[Helen F H]