Laugh or Cry

[liadnan]

In commemoration of the chap who fell down the stairs at the Fitzwilliam the other day and bust a trio of 300-year-old Chinese vases the Guardian asks for other smash hits. Horrifying and hysterical, all in one. And then there's the ones from "Moses", the reply from "PC Plod ("Just to let Moses know that we found the aforementioned broken stone tablets and as nobody came forward to claim them, they were auctioned off and sold to the lady at the back with the pink hat for £0.75 who we later found out was a member of Opus Dei and Dan Brown's writing a book all about it"), and Doris who was "dusting the controls of the superlaser in the original deathstar"....

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[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

After taking the Ark of the Covenant unearthed by Doctor Jones I had it shipped to an island where I anticipated laying my hands on the very tablets that Moses had brought down from mount Siani (holy not to mention valuable) - Imagine my embarassment when on the ritual opening of the Ark I unleahed the power of God, my face melted and the tablets were turned to dust ! The Ark is now safe in a museum vault.

Posted by Toht (Ronald Lacey)

Being a geek, I really hope that this was really posted by Ronald Lacey because that would be way cool.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

I have been enjoying this (instead of working) and congratulating myself that I haven't destroyed/marred/smashed/broken any where near the level some of them reported.

Alas, there's still time.

anti v

[alan1957.livejournal.com]

i worked as a security guard at the V&A and woz EXTREMELY pleased when the following 'appened during someone else's shift. in the main 'all woz a large display of the work of the american glass artist dale chichuly. 'n' one morning there woz someone carrying a ladder on 'is shoulder 'n' 'e 'ad a mate 'oo called out to 'im and 'e turned around and £20,000 worth of glass became £0 worth of really pretty coloured shards. ter be fair ter chichuly when pressed for a quote by the evening standard 'e said somefing like 'hey, i work with glass and glass is kinda fragile and gets broke easy...so, no big deal'.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

and, whoops.
:>

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

I like the woman with the precocious father, who died at the age of 13, but had a daughter who was old enough to throw an 18th century chair across the room.

[sshi.livejournal.com]

you have read Neil Gaiman's story about finding the Holy Grail in an Oxfam shop, right?

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I feel less clumsy now. I have not yet destroyed anything priceless or irreplacable.

All I did was drive a porsche into a lamp-post