Greatest Living Englishman Neil Gaiman tells a strange tale of a recent visit to the Antipodes, in which he spotted, in a Sydney street, a young lady tattooed with some words he wrote in his celebrated Sandman series some years ago:
It was, he said, somewhat ghostly to see his own words: "As if, for a moment, under the hot Sydney sun, I was only an idea of a person and not a real person at all"
Funnily enough - and you're not going to believe this - EXACTLY the same thing's happened to me as well, although, truth be told, not outside a comic shop in Sydney.
What, I ask, are the chances of that happening?
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Could have said "Doneing a poo". That would have been less attractive.
So Gaiman successfully sued for breach of copyright and the lady in question had to have the skin flayed off her back by a rabid badger.
And oddly, combining the world of 'done a poo' and fantasy literacy, I recently found myself 'sans papier' during a recent bout of the brown reaper. The only resource within arms-reach was a battered copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I can tell you it is by no means as absorbent as the literati would have you believe, but I can be confident that I have done my duty to the erudite masses.
Did you use it for Defence Against The Dark Arts, then?
If you ask me, that looks like a photo with done a poo written on it in biro.
What have you been huffing?
that's a coincidence - i've got "I am not mad" tatooed on my shoulder
I have " other side up" on the soles of my feet and, "my eyes are up HERE ^" on each boob.
WoD
WoD: Pics or it didn't happen
Photo would look better if she had "rich brown vomit" tattood on her other shoulder.
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She could go the whole hog and have "sick inna hedge" tattood over her fanny.
Found your blog after searching google for 'world's greatest blog'.
I've just started my own blog - which I won't pretend isn't inspired by this - and I'm wondering if there's an outside chance I could get it listed in your link list.
What is the vomit count? Billy needs to publish accurate statistics, not just 'inspired by'.
Not sure what you mean by 'accurate statistics', Debster. It's just a blog at which I intend to make interesting observations and talk general crap.
Way too intelligent for this place then
Ah well, Fairy Nuff.
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