Jamdug!: FTA:

KIM JONG IL

Country: North Korea

Collection: Movies, basketball, cognac

Kim Jong Il is a black guy?

aaand done.


turn out the lights.

According to the article he'd had Michael Jackson's white glove. The one with the vaguely BBQ smell in the material. That's hot.

Damnit now I need to become emperor of america so I can collect weird things

Jamdug!: FTA:

KIM JONG IL

Country: North Korea

Collection: Movies, basketball, cognac

Kim Jong Il is a black guy?

And they say Asians are afraid of black men.

Sybarite: They are from the universal cultural gutter. They look spraypainted, in a rampant hyperbolic style where all men are muscular, all women have giant breasts and missiles are metal cocks.

He says that like it's a bad thing.

Sounds like Heavy Metal...awesome!

MooseUpNorth: According to the article he'd had Michael Jackson's white glove. The one with the vaguely BBQ smell in the material. That's hot.

Wasn't MJ a vegetarian?

/no, there is no such thing as vegan BBQ, don't bring facts to this discussion, we're dealing in stereotype here!

Whaa about the Imelda Marcos shoe collection?

TFA identifies Daffy's gold-plated Browning Hi-Power, which is pictured, as a Colt .45. Cue the journalist's gun identification chart jpg.

Jamdug!: FTA:

KIM JONG IL

Country: North Korea

Collection: Movies, basketball, cognac

Kim Jong Il is a black guy?

Nope, can't be. It didn't mention an affinity for white women.

Sweaty Dynamite: Jamdug!: FTA:

KIM JONG IL

Country: North Korea

Collection: Movies, basketball, cognac

Kim Jong Il is a black guy?

Nope, can't be. It didn't mention an affinity for white women.

Where *are* the white women at, anyhow?

Sweaty Dynamite: Jamdug!: FTA:

KIM JONG IL

Country: North Korea

Collection: Movies, basketball, cognac

Kim Jong Il is a black guy?

Nope, can't be. It didn't mention an affinity for fat white women.

FTFY

isn't Rowenta a line of laundry irons?

or am I missing something, again?

Qaddafi also had a well-documented obsession with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who he called "my darling black African woman." Rebel forces found an album of photos of Rice in his residence in Tripoli, a discovery the U.S. State Department called "deeply bizarre and deeply creepy."According to Rice, when the two met, he showed her a video tribute featuring a photo montage of her and other world leaders accompanied by a song he had commissioned called "Black Flower of the White House."

Wow... there are no words.

FTFA: "all kinds of instruments, including an antediluvian phonograph"

Anyone else find it hard to believe there is a phonograph that can be proven to predate the biblical account of a global, humanity destroying flood?

berylman: Qaddafi also had a well-documented obsession with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who he called "my darling black African woman." Rebel forces found an album of photos of Rice in his residence in Tripoli, a discovery the U.S. State Department called "deeply bizarre and deeply creepy."According to Rice, when the two met, he showed her a video tribute featuring a photo montage of her and other world leaders accompanied by a song he had commissioned called "Black Flower of the White House."

Wow... there are no words.

Yes there are:

"Jungle Fever"

-or-

"AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Sin_City_Superhero: Crotchrocket Slim: MooseUpNorth: According to the article he'd had Michael Jackson's white glove. The one with the vaguely BBQ smell in the material. That's hot.

Wasn't MJ a vegetarian?

/no, there is no such thing as vegan BBQ, don't bring facts to this discussion, we're dealing in stereotype here!

I think the BBQ smell is from the Pepsi comercial shoot when his hair caught on fire.

I see the connection now. Nice!

Let's not forget Aisha Gaddafi's Golden Mermaid Couch...

Good lord, is that a baby crib near that THING??

For a small child, that's High Octane Nightmare Fuel.

/not the dictator, but it's his family

Sin_City_Superhero: Crotchrocket Slim: MooseUpNorth: According to the article he'd had Michael Jackson's white glove. The one with the vaguely BBQ smell in the material. That's hot.

Wasn't MJ a vegetarian?

/no, there is no such thing as vegan BBQ, don't bring facts to this discussion, we're dealing in stereotype here!

I think the BBQ smell is from the Pepsi comercial shoot when his hair caught on fire.

Yup. He started wearing the glove after he started performing again, supposedly to hide the scarring.

Uhhhh... for the hoard?

vsavatar: Uhhhh... for the hoard?

Some people really need to clear a bunch of their bank slots on the AH.

brantgoose: I see Qadaffy Douche was the man with the golden gun.

Kadaffy
Kaddaffy
Kadafy
Kadafi
Qadaffy
Qadafy
Qaddafi. Bingo. This is the one spell-check likes.

\b[KG]h?add?af?fi$\b

OR



HTH HAND

/regex needs refinement; I borrowed it from teh googlez but have not written one in years. But it obviously doesn't match any transliteration involving a "y".

So now we're calling them decadent? Right. Got it.

berylman: Qaddafi also had a well-documented obsession with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who he called "my darling black African woman." Rebel forces found an album of photos of Rice in his residence in Tripoli, a discovery the U.S. State Department called "deeply bizarre and deeply creepy."According to Rice, when the two met, he showed her a video tribute featuring a photo montage of her and other world leaders accompanied by a song he had commissioned called "Black Flower of the White House."

Wow... there are no words.

I--I actually feel sorry for her. That is amazingly creepy.


/always kinda liked her
//not that way though

The Shah of Iran also collected Modern art. David Geffen did some seriously questionable things to buy some of his Jackson Pollocks from the Iranian government.

And King Farouk was probably the only true hoarder on the list; he bought vast quantities of everything. After he was deposed a group of French and English auctioneers ran a series of auctions which lasted for months to sell off all the crap he collected, which included the only legally-owned 1933 Double Eagle and a room-sized Louis Vuitton traveling library.

King Farouk was probably an inbred royal. The rest were just nuts.

Rowena Morell, the artist behind some of the paintings, was outraged as well, telling the New York Daily News, "I would give anything to get them back. I am so upset that they are there.... I don't like the idea of them being in that country.

does that mean that saddam hussein actually owned the original versions of rowena's artwork? if so, how did she not know that already? and if they were just copies, then why does she even care?

i'm not a big fan of her art, but she does have a lovely colorful style.

The Guardian's art critic, Jonathan Jones, was withering in his assessment: "They are from the universal cultural gutter. They look spraypainted, in a rampant hyperbolic style where all men are muscular, all women have giant breasts and missiles are metal cocks. These are art for the barely literate, or the barely sentient, dredged from some red-lit back alley of the brain." Jones described the paintings as evidence of a man "who seems on this evidence to have lived according to aestheticised, eroticised violence for which no one has yet come up with a better word than "fascism"."

While the Guardian sees fascists behind every street corner, JJ here is pretty much on the money. Saddam's Baath party was basically an Arab analog of Hitler's Nazis, so it shouldn't be surprising than his "aesthetic sense", such as it was, would mirror Adolf's.