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(London Times)   The lie, the switch and the wardrobe   (timesonline.co.uk) divider line
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SBA_JKred
2007-12-11 4:51:09 PM  
Nice.
 
kirbeep
2007-12-11 4:52:18 PM  
It would have been cooler if he'd built a secret passage in his canoe.
 
Sharkface217
2007-12-11 4:52:34 PM  
A+ Headline subby, would read again!
 
Richard_M_Nixon
2007-12-11 4:52:59 PM  
He was a Jew, she was a whore, and Swearengen holds all the cards.
 
heebie_stevo
2007-12-11 4:53:48 PM  
So sick of hearing about these people. THEY'RE FARKING SCAM ARTISTS!! Ohh and they made off with all of $50,000 in insurance money. How is this still news? It's boring.
 
spaceninjax
2007-12-11 4:53:53 PM  
Sooo he was in the closet this whole time?
 
Joe_Mamma
2007-12-11 4:54:39 PM  
Isn't this headline a repeat or was it just the headline I saw yesterday on CNN? Even CNN came up with the same thing.
 
Baron-Harkonnen
2007-12-11 4:54:41 PM  
Did he pull out his gun?
 
Chamander
2007-12-11 4:55:03 PM  
TFA: It's like something from [The Chronicles of] Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Yes, it's quite a lot like that. Especially in how they both involve a wardrobe. And also in no other way at all.
 
vernonFL
2007-12-11 4:55:52 PM  
She said that she was "on eggshells" when visitors - including their grieving sons - came to visit, and her spouse reportedly slipped through a wardrobe into the passageway and escaped into his hideaway.

How could you do that to your family? OMFG.
 
pronountrouble
2007-12-11 4:57:21 PM  
Someone tell me what "mind bloggling" is. Is that like making mental notes?
 
SherKhan
2007-12-11 4:58:03 PM  
Awesome headline. Verb and elide the fist noun for perfection.

/just sayin'
 
Living4Him5534
2007-12-11 4:58:28 PM  
"It's like something from [The Chronicles of] Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . . . to think the bloke has been living just feet from his wife - it's mind-bloggling."

"Mind-bloggling"? What the hell? Does that mean you write up a little journal entry about it in your brain? Is it anything like "mind-bottling" from Blades of Glory?
 
Baron-Harkonnen
2007-12-11 4:59:45 PM  
vernonFL: She said that she was "on eggshells" when visitors - including their grieving sons - came to visit, and her spouse reportedly slipped through a wardrobe into the passageway and escaped into his hideaway.

How could you do that to your family? OMFG.


They may have known about it.
 
Living4Him5534
2007-12-11 4:59:45 PM  
pronountrouble: Someone tell me what "mind bloggling" is. Is that like making mental notes?

Dang it, you beat me.
 
Uchiha_Cycliste [TotalFark]
2007-12-11 5:00:31 PM  
I thought this article was going to be a folowup to yesterday's Paris Hilton story.
 
SherKhan
2007-12-11 5:00:49 PM  
vernonFL:

She said that she was "on eggshells"

Isn't she English? That should be "oun euggsheulls"
 
tuna fingers
2007-12-11 5:01:00 PM  
First thing I'm gonna do when I fake my own death is upgrade the wife.
 
Mayor Bee
2007-12-11 5:03:25 PM  
pronountrouble: Someone tell me what "mind bloggling" is. Is that like making mental notes?

It could have been worse, you know. I heard he's finally matched his meet. And that he's really licked his ass.
 
Mayor Bee
2007-12-11 5:04:04 PM  
Oh, I forgot...

//What's your bloggle?
 
brigid_fitch
2007-12-11 5:08:54 PM  
Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

--Mark Twain

/Got nothing to add, other than to flaunt my knowledge of trivia.
 
vernonFL
2007-12-11 5:10:00 PM  
The first time I went to Aruba it was so nice there I thought about faking my own death and starting a new life in Aruba.

I got back home and that missing white girl was all over the news about a week or two later.

Weird.
 
Cowboy Spencer
2007-12-11 5:11:27 PM  
Mayor Bee: I heard he's finally matched his meet. And that he's really licked his ass.

You can take this job, and you can shovel it.
 
yogurt-the-wise
2007-12-11 5:12:41 PM  
spaceninjax: Sooo he was in the closet this whole time?

Yes, he even came out of the closet. Or, was he forced out? Hmmmmm...
 
sinistermonk
2007-12-11 5:14:21 PM  
These people are interesting as hell. I think the most surprising thing isn't them faking his death, or them even having a secret passageway. It's the fact that these people have been married for so long and want to start over together.
 
studebaker hoch
2007-12-11 5:22:37 PM  
There have to be easier ways to get rid of debt.

/and yeah, the kids knew.
 
Royale With Cheese
2007-12-11 5:24:17 PM  
Darwin?

img127.imageshack.usView Full Size
 
Pontius Gandalf
2007-12-11 5:25:36 PM  
Bad Ronald?
 
nrv0us
2007-12-11 5:28:08 PM  
Is it just me or is this almost exactly the plot of Arrested Development Season 2?
 
worlddan
2007-12-11 5:29:15 PM  
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. (and I never do that).

I direct rip from another publication

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/10/2114128.htm

I submitted the headline two days ago but unlike the subby I didn't have the balls to take credit for it myself.

This is stealing, plain and simple and Fark should be ashamed!
 
DirkValentine [OhFark]
2007-12-11 5:32:54 PM  
i wrote a childrens book once called The Needle, The Vein, and The Overdose.

it didn't seem to to catch that much attention
 
worlddan
2007-12-11 5:32:54 PM  
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3978924&page=1

Is the original...
 
yogurt-the-wise
2007-12-11 5:35:24 PM  
DirkValentine: i wrote a childrens book once called The Needle, The Vein, and The Overdose.

it didn't seem to to catch that much attention

Didn't they make that into a video game?

/Heroine Hero?
//Chase the dragon but never catch him?
///Just sayin'
 
sinistermonk
2007-12-11 5:35:50 PM  
nrv0us: Is it just me or is this almost exactly the plot of Arrested Development Season 2?

Very true. Check out the picture to the right of the article, too:

img406.imageshack.us
 
mylonitic
2007-12-11 5:39:49 PM  
So he faked his own death, huh? But did he come back pretending to be his long-lost friend from the Argentine?

i16.tinypic.comView Full Size


/probably not obscure
 
superdude72
2007-12-11 5:41:00 PM  
John Duffield, the new owner of No 3, told how he found the secret passageway on Thursday: "It's like something from [The Chronicles of] Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe . . . to think the bloke has been living just feet from his wife - it's mind-bloggling."

The Narnia wardrobe was a magical portal to a world of mythological creatures. This is just... a wardrobe with a hole cut in it.

Richard_M_Nixon: He was a Jew, she was a whore, and Swearengen holds all the cards.

Deadwood: Better analogy.

nrv0us: Is it just me or is this almost exactly the plot of Arrested Development Season 2?

Also better.
 
Denial_of_Death
2007-12-11 5:41:40 PM  
I once convinced a girlfriend to let me use her secret passage.
 
Mayor Bee
2007-12-11 5:43:21 PM  
Denial_of_Death: I once convinced a girlfriend to let me use her secret passage.

How secret was it? The way I hear it, many frankfurters had been down that corridor.
 
superdude72
2007-12-11 5:43:58 PM  
I don't know the bankruptcy laws in the UK but it seems like filing bankruptcy would be less painful than faking your death.
 
Joce678
2007-12-11 5:44:30 PM  
"Seaton Carew"

I've been there. It's full of inbred ex-coal-miners who sit around all day smoking unfiltered cigarettes in filthy pubs which let their whippets in but not their wives.

(The women had to sit in a special little room 'round the back).

If the UK had hemorrhoids, that's where they'd be.
 
p_marvel
2007-12-11 5:49:25 PM  
FTFA - She said that she was "on eggshells" when visitors - including their grieving sons - came to visit, and her spouse reportedly slipped through a wardrobe into the passageway and escaped into his hideaway.

I wonder what the sons think of these parents for putting them through this.
 
Regular Chumpington
2007-12-11 5:51:36 PM  
[image from tim-read.com too old to be available]

/q&d
 
Senor Revington
2007-12-11 5:52:36 PM  
genius and heebie_stevo licks balls
 
heebie_stevo
2007-12-11 5:55:42 PM  
Screw you Rev!
 
luckybastard
2007-12-11 5:59:32 PM  
FTA: tens of thousands of pounds in debt.

Shoot, I'm tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) in debt, but this sort of shiat never crossed my mind. And I make pretty shiatty pay, all things considered.

Being debt-free isn't worth faking your own death. If your life is that shiatty that you don't think you're losing that much by cutting yourself off from your friends and family, then you might as well drop the 'faking' part and just kill yourself. What failures of life.
 
Omnivorous [BareFark]
2007-12-11 6:01:08 PM  
Okay, this story has jumped the shark.

But the link on that page is worth a click:
Playboy Playmates listed by place of birth (new window).
 
Harry Freakstorm [BareFark]
2007-12-11 6:01:39 PM  
DirkValentine
i wrote a childrens book once called The Needle, The Vein, and The Overdose.

Did it come with a free balloon?

/Saw "Throw Mama from the Train" this weekend.
 
noobcake
2007-12-11 6:08:54 PM  
Wouldn't this be more like the Magician's Nephew? Secret passages between houses?

(Nice puns though, subby)
 
Confoundit
2007-12-11 6:17:46 PM  
vernonFL:
She said that she was "on eggshells" when visitors - including their grieving sons - came to visit, and her spouse reportedly slipped through a wardrobe into the passageway and escaped into his hideaway.

How could you do that to your family? OMFG.

The sons probably did know that he was alive. The parents are just saying that the sons didn't know about it in order to protect them from prosecution. If the sons knew that he was alive and benefited in any way from his "death" they might be charged as accessories or something.
 
AnnaZed
2007-12-11 6:23:58 PM  
Confoundit:
The sons probably did know that he was alive. The parents are just saying that the sons didn't know about it in order to protect them from prosecution. If the sons knew that he was alive and benefited in any way from his "death" they might be charged as accessories or something.

So what I want to know is did he never go outside of the house?

I am with you, no way did the greiving sons not know about this scam. I love that he got lonely for them in Panama. What a moron.
 
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