GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. - A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" and insured for $1 million is missing from a Grand Rapids museum.
Police Chief Leigh Serfling said the slippers were stolen late Saturday or early Sunday. Someone entered the museum through a window and broke into the small display case holding the slippers.
"There's not a whole lot of evidence," Serfling said. "We're hoping that someone in the community has seen something."
Children's Discovery Museum director John Kelsch said the slippers belong to a Los Angeles man who loaned them to the museum for several weeks this summer.
The children's museum houses the Judy Garland museum, which displayed the same pair of slippers last year. Garland was born in Grand Rapids in 1922.
"The slippers are a major attraction at our museum," Kelsch said in a news release Monday. "It is our hope that the slippers can be recovered immediately."
Four pairs of ruby slippers worn by Garland in the movie are known to exist, including one pair on display at the Smithsonian Institution. Another pair sold at Christie's auction house in 2000 for $666,000.
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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Yummy Down on This, Abby
I read Dear Abby. I do it for the laughs, because I rarely agree with what she has to say.
And sometimes, like in this case, I get pissed at the people writing to being with.
So, here is the question that pissed me off today.
Underneath it is MY answer.
DEAR ABBY: You answered a question from a reader who asked how to respond when her 300-pound friend wanted to ride her horse but was too heavy for the animal to safely carry.
What should I tell my daughter-in-law who weighs at least that much when she wants to sit on my living room sofa and chairs? She has already split the wood frame on one of them. It was less than seven months old. I had it repaired, but I can't afford new furniture. The chairs are not big enough for her body. I would prefer she sit on the kitchen chairs, which are heavy.
Their living room furniture is less than five years old, but it already looks 20 years old. The fabric is sagging and the springs are broken.
I asked my son to say something to her, but he hasn't. I feel he should be the one to tell her. They'll be visiting again soon. What should I say to her? Or should I insist that my son tell her? -- MINNESOTA MOTHER-IN-LAW
YUMMY DOWN ON THIS
Dear M MIL, there is a HUGE difference in not wanting an overweight person to ride a horse and not wanting one to sit on your furniture.
The horse is a living being that suffers from the weight it has to carry and can be damaged by being ridden.
Your funiture can be damaged by being sat on, but its not a living being, unlike the horse and unlike your daughter in law.
You might as well tell her the truth, "I think your fat ass is going to ruin my furniture. Go away, you disgust me."
If you forbid your daughter in law from sitting on your furniture or try to make her sit on the less comfortable kitchen chairs, then I hope she tells you exactly what kind of person you are, where you can go and what you can do when you get there.
I WAS going to share my response to a Dear Abby question today, but instead I have to comment to one of my comments.
I hate to do this because I know it was only a pathetic person who craves the attention, but sometimes I just have to say something.
I had an "Anonymous" poster leave me the lovely comment of "update your blog or get it off" Mmm...don’t you just LOVE that sentence. Not properly capitalized. No punctuation. And so demanding.
But, c'mon. Before you start demanding for me to either UPDATE or GET OFF, then you need to not be a CHICKEN SHIT and leave me a link to YOUR blog so I can see how often YOU update.
There, I've stroked your ego. You can masturbate to this post now that you've gotten me to update AND you can say someone noticed you.
Just don’t cum on the keyboard. It could prevent you from posting further cowardly messages to me.
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Sunday, August 07, 2005
Seriously, from YummY's world....
So, my family is fucked up, but I love them anyway, right?
My dad has mental issues now, thanks to a bad drug trip. I wont go into specifics cause I'd rather not. Just know that he's not loony. He's still perfectly normal and can function normally in society without you being any the wiser and only a few of us know he is a little off now.
So, one of my oldest brothers moves himself and his girlfriend into my dads house to "Keep and eye on daddy," which, in itself, isn't a bad thing, but I've never seen him anywhere NEAR our dad. Every time I'm there (which I admit, isn't often because I live in another city several hours away, but every time I can get off of work I go spend the weekend with him) my brother and his GF stay in their room all the time, unless the come out to get somethign to eat.
Well, a bit ago my brother lost his job becasue he never WENT TO WORK which is a good way to loose a job.
And this morning I'm told that he ISN'T EVEN LOOKING FOR A JOB because he's "Staying home to keep an eye on daddy."
Now, my (our) dad is going to be 64 years old soon. He's live a long and HARD life. He's worked outside in the blistering heat or freezing cold as long as I've known him, working ungodly hours, leaving at 5 or 6 am and working sometimes until 11pm to midnight.
He is supposed to be RETIRED now. He's not supposed to be out there working in Georgia's 115 degree weather. He's supposed to be sitting inside watching his GPTV, drinking his coffee or iced tea and playing with his dogs or sitting on the bank of a river fishing.
But since my 38 year old brother is "looking after" him and not working and his 22 year old GF has never worked since they lived there, my dad is paying ALL the bills and supporting my brother and his GF. Which means that my 64 year old RETIRED dad HAS to work whether he wants to or not.
Please, tell me, is there something wrong with that picture?
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I WAS going to share my response to a Dear Abby question today, but instead I have to comment to one of my comments.