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2006-12-27 Africa Horn

Ethiopian warplanes bomb Lego, an Islamist base

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Posted by Steve White 2006-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Eggo town just moved up on the list.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-12-27 00:09|| 2006-12-27 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL! Love the graphic!

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-12-27 00:11|| 2006-12-27 00:11|| Front Page Top

#3 You want Lego? I'll give you Lego:

Um, no. Please don't post multiple images like this in a comment. It sucks bandwidth and slows loading of the Burg, particularly for our dial-up readers (and we have a number of those). AoS.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-27 01:28|| 2006-12-27 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 For no other reason than the following lyrics usually rip the heart out of any soul-searching person ... and ... Repent for "American Pie". Cough!

In some strange sad way for Theo ... maybe above all.

[wistfully]

Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-27 03:37|| 2006-12-27 03:37|| Front Page Top

#5 American Pie. Didn't that song go: "A long long time ago/Ina a galaxy far away/Naboo was under an attack"?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-12-27 08:59|| 2006-12-27 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 A bit more appropos Lego - sometimes you just have to stand back and admire the hardware.

Posted by GORT 2006-12-27 09:11|| 2006-12-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you, ZENSTER! That song is one of my many guilty pleasures.

And that aircraft carrier is a sure sign of the end of western civilization! Too much free time on our hands and too much spending cash! Think of all the VICTIMS of our rapacious capitalistic wanton drstructive blah blah blah blah!

Sorry! Got off topic did we?

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2006-12-27 09:32|| 2006-12-27 09:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Just reading the lyrics hits as hard as the first time I heard it, Zenster. The man knew his way around a musical stave.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-27 09:55|| 2006-12-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry, kids, can't resist:

The Ethiopian commander has issued an ultimatum: "If Lego doesn't surrender, we're gonna tear it apart, brick by brick!"

Denmark is sending humanitarian aid in the form of 500,000 plastic bricks.

Posted by Mike 2006-12-27 10:59|| 2006-12-27 10:59|| Front Page Top

#10 I liked American Pie

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-27 12:23|| 2006-12-27 12:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Please don't post multiple images like this

Will do, single images with links from now on. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Here's a link to the Lego site so people can make sense of why the lyrics are posted.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-27 15:31|| 2006-12-27 15:31|| Front Page Top

#12 I'll bet that Hawking chap find bricks spontaneously manifesting on his front lawn as that aircraft carrier inexorably sucks them into a space time disruption Lego gravity well.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-27 15:40|| 2006-12-27 15:40|| Front Page Top

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