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2014-09-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Chicago Woman Killed By Falling Gargoyle

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Posted by Fred 2014-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 After falling down on the woman did John Kerry apologize?

Posted by Airandee 2014-09-06 07:39|| 2014-09-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 That's a different kind of story coming out of Chicago. Usually, we hear of some shooting.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-06 10:42|| 2014-09-06 10:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Was the gargoyle a Predator drone gargoyle, or a free lancer?

Posted by ed in texas 2014-09-06 11:20|| 2014-09-06 11:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Making humour of someone tragically beaned should be beneath us.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-06 11:21|| 2014-09-06 11:21|| Front Page Top

#5 If only the government would control the gargoyles then we wouldn't have death by gargoyle.
LET'S MAKE CHICAGO A GARGOYLE FREE ZONE!!!
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Posted by AlmostAnonuymous5839 2014-09-06 13:37|| 2014-09-06 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 FYI: A few years ago a sharp long icicle fell from the roof of the Marshall Fields Dept. store and landed/went thru the head of a pedestrian standing underneath on the sidewalk. She did not survive. Apologize for slightly OT.

former Chicagoan Borgboy

Posted by borgboy 2014-09-06 14:52|| 2014-09-06 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7
#4 Making humour of someone tragically beaned should be beneath us.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/06/2014 11:21 Comments || Top||

What Re you some kinda free-will kook? This is gawd sending us his version of the banana peel. Well, at least I hope so.

Wait, the last name. Yeah, thus is definitely Devine banana peel territory.

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-06 17:50|| 2014-09-06 17:50|| Front Page Top

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-09-06 17:54|| 2014-09-06 17:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Usually, we hear of some shooting.

You people may think that it's cute
To send rain and melt up my chute,
But winters are brutal,
And I've had a snootful --
Give my southbound booty a salute!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 21:34|| 2014-09-06 21:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Belying its outward monstrosity,
The gargoyle felt no animosity.
Its final velocity
And fatal ferocity?
The fall of Chi-town grandiosity.

And one for the Anti-Bothering League, since I couldn't cram "religiosity" into the last.

Who knows when wind, earthly gravity,
And ancient religious depravity
Will, combined, a gargoyle,
Some extinct sculptor's toil,
Cause to impact your cranial cavity?

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 21:47|| 2014-09-06 21:47|| Front Page Top

#11 They're coming to take me away
To the FEMA farm some lovely day.
For diverse diversion,
Poetic perversion,
And crimes against rhymes, I must pay.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 22:04|| 2014-09-06 22:04|| Front Page Top

#12 This incident apparently struck a poetic nerve.

Posted by SteveS 2014-09-06 22:19|| 2014-09-06 22:19|| Front Page Top

#13 When it tickles the ol' mental nerve,
I bite into a topic with verve.
Then it's bugger the clerks!
Why conserve? Shoot the works,
Cuz I hate keeping rhymes in reserve.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-06 23:03|| 2014-09-06 23:03|| Front Page Top

#14 ZF, you are on fire today!

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-09-06 23:30|| 2014-09-06 23:30|| Front Page Top

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