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January 18, 2006
Some People Need Lives
In one of the surest signs yet that what's left of American culture is going directly into the sewer system, someone has actually paid $25,000 for... one of William Shatner's kidney stones.
Actually, it's worse than that. It's not that someone has paid 25 Gs for it. I could probably live with it if it was some internet geek who'd never yet left his parents' basement, yet managed to build a new business that earned him a fortune. I'd be able to blow it off as just the utter geekiness of someone whom fortune has chosen inexplicably to smile upon. But nooooooo. The buyer was an online casin0 famous for its growing collection of oddities.
[the business] is noted for its collection of oddities, which includes a partially eaten cheese sandwich thought to contain the image of the Virgin Mary. “This is a bold new addition to our fleet,” [business] Chief Executive Officer Richard Rowe said in a statement. Shatner, who played Kirk on the original “Star Trek” TV show and won an Emmy for his role on “Boston Legal,” passed the stone last fall.
This online business expects to raise interest and get people to come to it because it owns William Shatner's kidney stone and a grilled cheese sandwich of the Virgin Mary. And the worst thing is, there will be people who do go to their site because of stuff like this. Granted, none of them will have more than four teeth and will likely have sired at least one of their own siblings, but it's mindboggling nonetheless.
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Meanwhile James Spader's snot-in-a-hankie that makes the face of Christopher Walken goes unsold.
Posted by: eden at January 18, 2006 01:35 PM
