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Stańczyk by Jan Matejko; source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Stanczyk_Matejko.JPG
May 13
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the above image from here is of Laurel and Hardy the Stumblng Tumblr finds that a little of them goes a long way these days, but, when pretty young, he loved them at their best, they exhibited a carefully calibrated genius for increasing destruction, for example, in “Big Business” (1929); the Stumblng Tumblr remembers laughing so hard when he first saw that film that he literally fell out of his seat the Stumblng Tumblr was immediately reminded of L & H by this story a man and his wife in the German city of Kaiserslautern had another couple over for a barbecue on their balcony the host couldn’t get his barbecue coals to light with lighter fluid, so he decided to pour a glass of petrol on them that caused such a flare-up that the host dropped the glass of petrol that so startled his male guest, that he dropped the petrol canister that he’d been holding that led to the petrol in the canister catching fire and the lit petrol then beginning to run off the balcony, falling onto the host’s car below that car burst into flames, which led to the two cars on either side of that car also bursting into flames according to the local police: The fire was put out by the fire brigade. The total damage amounted to around €30,000 ($46,000). Whether the people involved will ever barbecue again in their lives is unclear[.] the Stumblng Tumblr imagines the host, when the bricks had stopped falling, turning to his guest and, (mis)quoting Ollie, saying, “Well, that’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.” notice that the image above is particularly appropriate in the circumstances, since in it Stan’s thumb is apparently on fire ——
  • the above image from here is of Laurel and Hardy
  • the Stumblng Tumblr finds that a little of them goes a long way these days, but, when pretty young, he loved them
  • at their best, they exhibited a carefully calibrated genius for increasing destruction, for example, in “Big Business” (1929); the Stumblng Tumblr remembers laughing so hard when he first saw that film that he literally fell out of his seat
  • the Stumblng Tumblr was immediately reminded of L & H by this story
  • a man and his wife in the German city of Kaiserslautern had another couple over for a barbecue on their balcony
  • the host couldn’t get his barbecue coals to light with lighter fluid, so he decided to pour a glass of petrol on them
  • that caused such a flare-up that the host dropped the glass of petrol
  • that so startled his male guest, that he dropped the petrol canister that he’d been holding
  • that led to the petrol in the canister catching fire and the lit petrol then beginning to run off the balcony, falling onto the host’s car below
  • that car burst into flames, which led to the two cars on either side of that car also bursting into flames
  • according to the local police:
The fire was put out by the fire brigade. The total damage amounted to around €30,000 ($46,000). Whether the people involved will ever barbecue again in their lives is unclear[.]
  • the Stumblng Tumblr imagines the host, when the bricks had stopped falling, turning to his guest and, (mis)quoting Ollie, saying, “Well, that’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.”
  • notice that the image above is particularly appropriate in the circumstances, since in it Stan’s thumb is apparently on fire
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