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"Big results require big ambitions." - Heraclitus, Breakfast skies bring curtains down Upon a crumbling lacquered gown, Heads stuffed into jars They got all these things, stuffed to the gills, Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff
Eddie Izzard on wanting to end up in certain professions;
“And there’s others like taxidermist. You can’t just go, “Oh, I was just working at the chip shop, and I just started stuffing animals with sand,” you know? You’ve gotta want to be! “I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. (*mimes stuffing an animal) I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.”
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I find the desire to stuff animals weird. I also find displays of taxidermy unsettling and spooky. Reminds of that film at the Smithsonian where they all come alive. Now, that would be fun.
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It is an odd one. And not confined to animals either – Stuffed Philosopher Jeremy Bentham – though I feel it didn’t pan out quite as Jeremy would have liked. Seems like a lovely chap mind you.
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On a bit of an ego trip if you ask me. Or even if you don’t. Why anyone would want to be part scarecrow, part mummified head thinking its a gift to posterity is beyond me. His real head doesn’t look very pretty does it? Odd bloke.
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It wouldn’t be my choice for sure – some folks leave their bodies to be exhibited all sliced up but I suppose that is educational.
“His real head doesn’t look very pretty does it?” – He speaks so well of you too. – falls about.
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I doubt he does. We got on well re women’s rights, but I’m afraid we fell out over vivisection.
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Amen. So to speak.
sonmi nodding upon the Cloud
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@RS.
You lived n Oz. Don’t they stuff animals over there …. mate?
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There weren’t a lot to stuff in central Sydney
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Fair enough, but I did hear (or read?) that they practice animal husbandry somewhat differently over there.
Perhaps this is why John now lives in Brazil?
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Love Eddie Izzard. Also, I have a book called Crap Taxidermy. It is beyond awesome 🙂
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I can only imagine. Blimey. Gadzooks even. laughs
Eddie should be King of the world. That’s a basic fact.
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You have reminded me of the taxidermist shop in the old part of Lille…took coffee pavement side in the place next door once, turned around, noted said shop window and almost jumped out of my skin (fortunately I didn’t jump out of my skin as I would likely have been stuffed also)
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I don’t blame you at all, though I’m sure you’d look lovely stuffed Mike. That doesn’t sound good. But is meant well laughs.
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Career wise, it’s best to explore all openings.
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small round of applause
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Now that is something right there.
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Where?!…Oh there! puts ‘something’ away again in the secret, hermit folder of mystery.
Thank you Professor. nods
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Can I have it back? I was really taking to it, see.
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Well no, technically it was here before you even came upon it, and belongs to sonmi. Well, not entirely to sonmi perhaps, but who knows about these things? Not many for sure, if any indeed, beyond sonmi, the Cloud, and the folder itself. However, I am told there are somethings hidden in The Punchy Lands that are equally impressive, so it might be worth looking in a few caves up in the mountains, right at the back mind, possibly under a nice piece of sandstone.
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Yes, but I’m too lazy to search, the sudden.
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‘The sudden’. Not…THE SUDDEN! Best you do not search it after all then. Here, have a sticky bun – shoves one in his pocket.
s.u.t.Cloud
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No, no, I’m on a diet, see.
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There’s no pleasing some people.
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offers Sonmi cherry sucker
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Dirty boy.
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My cherry suckers are very clean, I’ll have you know!
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That’s what they all say mate.
esme looking askance upon the Cloud
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I am a huge fan of Eddie Izzard (squeals of delight).
His biography was inspirational ~ just believe in yourself.
At the moment I am watching Eddie Izzard in a series ‘The Riches’, where Eddie is applying his talents to acting.
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I thought you might be, excellent taste Emy shakes her hand. He’s a good actor, I’ll watch him in anything, but he’s at his best when pointing out the madness of humans. nods.
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Absolutely. Eddie can certainly capture the absurdity of human nature.
BTW, I don’t think you saw this link I left for you on my post about pin-art.
All the best 🙂
http://www.peta.org/blog/ogilvy-mather-stickpin-art-fur/77
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Ah thank you Emy, lovely. I’m slow at checking notifications at present, running on a treacle treadmill it feels at time. I’ll tuck it away for my arty bits. beams a smile her way.
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I know nothing of this Izzard guy. And maybe he’s making a joke. But, I don’t like it. It’s morbid; ‘n far as I’m concerned these taxidermy types should be stuffing and mounting hunter heads, on plaque. You know, wearing their Duck Dynasty camo ball caps, a plug of chewing tobacco bulging their cheek, and tobacco juice dripping down their beard. Yeah, well, say what you will, I’d buy one.
All seriousness aside, you know I once chewed tobacco, Redman. Just a worthless bit of trivia ’bout me, thought I’d share.
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Eddie is brilliant, and a fine example of a man I’d have as a politician, which is rare as a rare thing for someone in the public eye. Stuffing is stuffing, and not specific to hunting, certainly not these days as there’s a huge market for having pets stuffed. Not my bag for sure. I don’t find much to do with death morbid at all actually, now I come to think on it, but I can understand why others might find if an unsavoury subject.
Chewing tobacco. By the Gods that’s a harsh habit! You did well to chuck it Peter, tis an evil weed, on a par with heroin and crack to my mind. An insidious killer taxed by the government, while cannabis is illegal, but can genuinely help people in severe pain. But there’s no money to be made in it, anyone can grow it!! Pffft.
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Any man sonmi would have as a politician, is alright by me.
Chewing’s a habit I’ve long chucked. I only did it when I was a youngster trying to find himself, and looking to impress the gals. Needless to say…
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shakes his hand warmly.
I have an image of you now as the Fonz, jacket collar pulled up, glint in your eye, and chewing tobacco as a gaggle of giggling young gals look on impressed. Suits you. – nods and pegs it.
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