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[Robin Landseadel]

[Ahem] Tom Waits full quote:

"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal  
lobotomy."

J. Frank Parnell: Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You
hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box
do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense.
Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to
have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in.
One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept
away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.

Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?

Parnell: Not at all. Friend of mine had one. Designer of the neutron
bomb. You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves
buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's
there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So
immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what
happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well
again.

On Nov 21, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> So I had a lobotomy!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0TYk9JbnWc
>
> I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than to have a frontal ...

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