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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:00 PM
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I Stole Screaming Lord Byron's Tombstone
Edited on Fri Sep-24-04 11:02 PM by Crisco
I'm using it for a desktop pic.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:04 PM
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1. Lord Byron was tombstoned?!
You learn something new every day....
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:07 PM
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3. no he changed his name
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:07 PM
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4. what's the new name?
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:08 PM
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5. something peasant
Edited on Fri Sep-24-04 11:09 PM by JohnKleeb
MumblingPeasantSteve
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:22 PM
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10. I like that
wasn't he in a Monty python movie? One of the ones scraping up the filth? "Lovely filth over here".
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:22 PM
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11. umm you're asking the wrong person about that
since I've never seen any Monty Python. :wow: I know and I am gonna get called an imbred, cave dweller for it.
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:28 PM
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12. Blessed are the Kleebs
or anyone with two "e's" in their name
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:30 PM
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13. It's German for glue
Klebstoff
isn't that funny.
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:32 PM
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14. glue, duct tape and bailing wire hold the whole world together
so you should be proud
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:35 PM
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15. eh a lil secret, I actually like to conceal my German heritage
;) not really, but I prefer saying half Irish, quarter Slovak, quarter Slovene. Though being German is nothin to be ashamed aboot.
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:47 PM
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17. The German people had the courage not to go along with our
ill concieved adventure in Irag. I applaud their intelligence and morality.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:25 AM
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19. I emailed Gerard Scroder a couple of years ago
He's a good guy.
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:24 AM
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18. don't forget
silicon sealer and JB Weld.
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Bat Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-25-04 12:44 AM
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20. You've never seen....
Not even...but...seriously, not even...?

Are you, like, an alien or machine or something? Prisoner?

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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:06 PM
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2. why
I think the admins should post the thread that killed them next to the tombstone....inquireing minds want to know!!!!!!!!!!!
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:09 PM
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6. This tombstone?
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:11 PM
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7. I think it's only right to post a hand-crafted tombstone twice
So often they don't even get the gender right with the durn things.
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:14 PM
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8. I've posted it 3x now
And I'm still cleaning up the granite dust.

Your attention whore,

SWMBO
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:15 PM
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9. I think the deceased is the attention whore in this case
Edited on Fri Sep-24-04 11:16 PM by jpgray
:D

Your tombstone is very nice.
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-24-04 11:37 PM
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16. Thanks...but a real attention whore would probably prefer this:


:D
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