Repo/PKDoorstopper
Joe Allonby
joeallonby at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 15:53:42 CST 2008
Nice friends, Otto.
Thanks, I made them myself.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Robin Landseadel <
robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> [Ahem] Tom Waits full quote:
> "I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy."
>
> J. Frank Parnell <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289051/>: 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 <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000389/>: Lobotomy? Isn't that for
> loonies?
>
> Parnell <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289051/>: 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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