Uh....Tis the season....

: News of the Weird for December 11, 2000 The Golden Tower Project, an installation by Seattle artists at this year's Burning Man festival, consisted of 400 jars of urine from other artists, stacked and electroluminescently lighted ("gorgeous", "faintly blue and gold","warm, kind of like biological stained glass", according to Seattle's The Stranger Weekly). (In 1993, News of the Weird reported that New York City artist Todd Alden had asked 400 art collectors worldwide to send him samples of their feces so he could offer them for sale in personalized tins. Said Alden, "Scatology is emerging as an increasingly significant part of artistic inquiry in the 1990s.") "Winning Isn't Everything; It's the Only Thing": Thomas Lavery, 56, was indicted in Akron, Ohio, in August on nine counts of roughing up two of his high-achieving, home-schooled daughters when they performed worse in their endeavors than he expected. According to the indictment, when one daughter came in second in the National Spelling Bee, botching "cappelletti", Lavery threatened to kill her and had to be physically restrained. The girl told the Akron Beacon Journal that Lavery would punch them in the head for their failures and that screaming and profanity were common. Lavery complained to the Associated Press that he was "easier on (his kids) than my father was (on me)." __________________ Quote: Originally posted by oblongmelon Thomas Lavery, 56, was indicted in Akron, Ohio, in August on nine counts of roughing up two of his high-achieving, home-schooled daughters when they performed worse in their endeavors than he expected. According to the indictment, when one daughter came in second in the National Spelling Bee, botching "cappelletti", Lavery threatened to kill her and had to be physically restrained. The girl told the Akron Beacon Journal that Lavery would punch them in the head for their failures and that screaming and profanity were common. Lavery complained to the Associated Press that he was "easier on (his kids) than my father was (on me)." What pansies. What did the chick expect for f'in up "cappeletti"? I'd kill her too! Why, I remember one time, when trying to build a 56,000 piece life size model of an SR-71, I accidentally welded an air diffuser .3" to the right. I got put in the Learning Box for 10 days for that one! __________________ Quote: Originally posted by pennypinch Quote: Originally posted by oblongmelon Thomas Lavery, 56, was indicted in Akron, Ohio, in August on nine counts of roughing up two of his high-achieving, home-schooled daughters when they performed worse in their endeavors than he expected. According to the indictment, when one daughter came in second in the National Spelling Bee, botching "cappelletti", Lavery threatened to kill her and had to be physically restrained. The girl told the Akron Beacon Journal that Lavery would punch them in the head for their failures and that screaming and profanity were common. Lavery complained to the Associated Press that he was "easier on (his kids) than my father was (on me)." What pansies. What did the chick expect for f'in up "cappeletti"? I'd kill her too! Why, I remember one time, when trying to build a 56,000 piece life size model of an SR-71, I accidentally welded an air diffuser .3" to the right. I got put in the Learning Box for 10 days for that one! PENNY - looks like you misspelled cappelletti also . . . see the "cappeletti" you typed above . . . missing an L . . . looks like a bunch of punches in the head for you . . . and of course you'll be in the "learning box" until after New Years! . . . hehe __________________ Quote: Originally posted by Butch Quote: Originally posted by pennypinch Quote: Originally posted by oblongmelon Thomas Lavery, 56, was indicted in Akron, Ohio, in August on nine counts of roughing up two of his high-achieving, home-schooled daughters when they performed worse in their endeavors than he expected. According to the indictment, when one daughter came in second in the National Spelling Bee, botching "cappelletti", Lavery threatened to kill her and had to be physically restrained. The girl told the Akron Beacon Journal that Lavery would punch them in the head for their failures and that screaming and profanity were common. Lavery complained to the Associated Press that he was "easier on (his kids) than my father was (on me)." What pansies. What did the chick expect for f'in up "cappeletti"? I'd kill her too! Why, I remember one time, when trying to build a 56,000 piece life size model of an SR-71, I accidentally welded an air diffuser .3" to the right. I got put in the Learning Box for 10 days for that one! PENNY - looks like you misspelled cappelletti also . . . see the "cappeletti" you typed above . . . missing an L . . . looks like a bunch of punches in the head for you . . . and of course you'll be in the "learning box" until after New Years! . . . hehe Hey Butch, btw...we're headed back to the scene of the crime in March (EVILLL...EVILLL!!!) . Are you down? E-mail me... Mavi forum