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(Boston Globe)   $250,000 paid for "Rembrandt" photocopied at Staples from an art book   (boston.com) divider line 54
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2004-03-13 02:31:37 PM
I don't regret it. I say it was money well spent! I figured that I could either buy that or 4,166 years of Totalfark subscription.
 
2004-03-13 04:09:24 PM
Thomas Kinkade basically does it, and people shell out money for that shiat.

/hehe, "teabag."
 
2004-03-13 04:42:35 PM
Yeah but it's so ORIGINAL how Thomas Kinkade COPIES his art....
 
2004-03-13 09:10:03 PM
Only a WOMAN would be so stupid do something like this.
 
2004-03-13 09:15:07 PM
"Billy was in jail and felt that he wasn't getting the attention he deserved,"

I feel his pain (??)

Aceraven10: A word of advice to a noob: you're gonna get your ass kicked with your constant women bashing posts on all the threads.
 
2004-03-13 09:16:38 PM
Further proof that the art intelligentsia doesn't know it's collective ass from it's elbow and is full of enough horse puckey to sink a battleship.
 
2004-03-13 09:18:22 PM
I'd say a hero tag is in order, for the dude who sold it. Huzzah!
 
2004-03-13 09:19:03 PM
WHAT?
 
2004-03-13 09:19:13 PM
when i win the powerball tonight then i too can be highbrow with art like this. or i might do like jack and just leave the money in my car.
 
2004-03-13 09:27:43 PM
Hey, I have a picture of some land in Florida I've got for sale....
 
2004-03-13 09:28:23 PM
My buddy once sold a guy a $10 Miro print for $300 claiming it to be an original litho.

The guy shoulda got suspicious when two highschool kids showed up in 72 cougar
 
2004-03-13 09:28:49 PM
I'm an artists, I'd make him a room full of original art for 250 grand
 
2004-03-13 09:29:02 PM
Hah! Thats more than twice what I paid. Sucker...
 
2004-03-13 09:30:15 PM
So the guy who paid 250k for the forgery made in a couple of minutes by some ex-con was a Rhode Island "businessman."
Sounds completely plausible! They even hire state legislators who are on committees regulating those businesses. Fark needs a L'il Rhody tag.
 
2004-03-13 09:31:08 PM
I've just printed a bunch of $2 bills I'll sell for $10 each.
 
2004-03-13 09:31:29 PM
Hell, for that much, you'd think it'd at least be from Kizinko's...
 
2004-03-13 09:32:32 PM
Should have used a Jew. Ya can't trust them Gentiles.
 
2004-03-13 09:33:29 PM
Oh, you and your shemales are gonna come kick my ass. Cuz, of course, you what CONTINENT I live on! Rhiannon=noob!
 
2004-03-13 09:34:00 PM
It might be me, but I think the link's farked.
 
2004-03-13 09:37:59 PM
Hey RHIANNON, you sound like a hot chick, will you send me a pic?
 
2004-03-13 09:38:45 PM
YEAAAAHHHH
 
2004-03-13 09:42:06 PM
"Oh, you and your shemales are gonna come kick my ass."

I didn't mean that in the literal sense. Sorry you misunderstood.
 
2004-03-13 09:45:46 PM
I'd have to say that despite rhiannon's efforts, Aceraven10's idiocy remains undiminished.
 
vjp
2004-03-13 09:48:57 PM
I was behind this guy at an art shop once, who tried to buy a Rembrandt with 125,000 $2 bills. The cashier called security because she had never heard of a $2 bill, and the security guard actually had the guy in handcuffs before the mall manager came and straightened things out.
 
2004-03-13 09:50:03 PM
I'll fax a photocopy of my big white Russian ass to anybody who's willing to fork over $250,000.

*it never hurts to try.
 
2004-03-13 09:52:31 PM
Does this story confuse anyone else besides me? Okay, so someone showed a photo of a copy of a portrait on the news? Wait -- he was supposed to have forged a painting, but really showed a photocopy, or was he supposed to have found the painting and showed a picture that he really found in an art book.

Can someone put this into about 20 words or less while I go get another beer?
 
G2V
2004-03-13 09:54:01 PM
"As our report clearly states, this could be a genuine article or an elaborate hoax."

Way to go Primetime! You've really narrowed it down! What would we do without you?
 
2004-03-13 09:54:29 PM
If it were not for stupid people there'd neither be suckers, nor Republicans.

/proverb
 
2004-03-13 09:56:09 PM
I've got the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel available for sale. Only $300,000. Of course it's an original; everyone knows that Michaelangelo primarily worked in .gif.
 
2004-03-13 10:01:58 PM
Savatage

Master of the obvious!
 
2004-03-13 10:08:10 PM
Aceraven10
Since I've been visiting Fark, I think you must be the most ignorant person yet. Maybe someday you'll grow up, and come to grips with what appears to be repressed homosexuality. Good luck.

/Only a woman
 
2004-03-13 10:15:44 PM
Aceraven10

Your are a pusball on the backside of a dirty sumo wrestlers hindquarters,grow up
Get some help for your repressed hatefulness

/just another woman stating facts
 
2004-03-13 10:16:50 PM
Aceraven10
Oh, you and your shemales are gonna come kick my ass. Cuz, of course, you what CONTINENT I live on!

Why do I get the idea you really are in Denver, CO as your profile suggests?
 
2004-03-13 10:25:15 PM
After reading Aceraven10's comment in that "woman stuck in toilet thread", I doubt he will be around long.
 
2004-03-13 10:26:35 PM
I think that number in front of his login must be his age.

A wonderful idea that would be to sort out the trolls, wouldn't you agree?
 
2004-03-13 10:32:01 PM
I think Aceraven10 should crawl back under his bridge and go back to scaring people like all good trolls should do.

Or change that typo in his user name to Assraven10
 
2004-03-13 10:33:58 PM
Kinkade drinks Johnny Walker Red Label.

I know this because I finished his bottle for him.
 
2004-03-13 10:36:33 PM
don't feed the trolls, please....
 
2004-03-13 10:37:40 PM
1 vote for AceRaven10 bannination.
 
2004-03-13 10:38:49 PM
You can't imagine the looks I get when I ask Staples to photocopy twenty dollar bills. You'd think it was a damn Rembrandt.

PS- The Kinkade 'masters' simply have mechanized signatures featuring his 'DNA' (he donates blood to mix with the signature paint.) Hell, if I wanted that I would just raid his trash for kiddie-porn mags.
 
2004-03-13 10:51:59 PM
And he would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
 
2004-03-13 10:54:00 PM
Did he pay for the fake with a $1 million dollar bill ?
 
2004-03-13 11:04:55 PM
What the hell does that first paragraph even say? It's five lines long. What terrible editing. Do you have to graduate from high school to be an editor?
 
2004-03-13 11:37:53 PM
Aceraven10: Somewhere a village is missing an idiot.
 
2004-03-13 11:44:52 PM
watch out for those artsies.
 
2004-03-14 12:00:58 AM
Hey people, don't feed the trolls.
 
2004-03-14 12:28:02 AM
Blackbird

How do you know he's not still in his village? They probably gave him a computer and a Fark account to keep him busy and out of their way.
 
2004-03-14 02:08:38 AM
But Fitzpatrick said he does not know if the FBI interviewed Murray, who was shot to death by his wife at their Maine home a short time afterward.

? now the people involved are shooting eachother?

/easily confused at 2am
 
2004-03-14 03:25:47 AM
Haha, I love how 90% of the people bashing Aceraven10 come off as childish little whiners. "LOLOL - He's a homo!!1!", "He's just 12, OMG!!!!", etc.
 
2004-03-14 04:37:23 AM
http://www.courttv.com/graphics/photos/hidden%5ftraces/gardner/offlede/rembran t200w264h%

The painting in question. I am a fan of the Gardner and I would like to see the pices retuned... the bastard! Burn in hell, thief!
 
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