http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4658327.stm
Oh the humanity! So close to a Darwin Award…
“The doctor bandaged the grazes…”
What is it with all these grazes? It’s the only description they ever use. Makes it sound like he’s been attacked by herbivores.
Chance would be a fine thing. Can we make it a rampaging herd of 100 mad bull elephants in a very confined space?
Steve
… given that he hails from Oil and Cattle country, grazes seems an adequate descrition of his injuries… and being that he is a deeply religeous man… Amazing Grazes…
WTF?! You wish he had DIED?! I thought liberals were supposed to be against violence and hate.
JES, 
Humor, simply humor. Do you honestly believe that Gary Kelly would wish anyone dead? 
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Anybody who regularly rides a bike gets a few scrapes. Amazing how perfect some are on this Forum.
And those of us who do it irregularly get even more. Been there, done that, got blood on the T shirt.
It’s about time someone noticed how amazingly close to perfection I really am. Thanks, Weeks!
So lamenting the fact that our president DIDN’T die is humorous. That’s interesting. Even through the crazy days of the Clinton impeachment, I don’t recall anyone joking about how it’s too bad the president didn’t die. Okay I take that back; I did hear one guy saying that, but he was an extreme right-wing nutjob.
Gary just said, “So close to a Darwin Award.” Though often the case, Darwin Awards are not necessarily given only to those who die stupidly. They’re given to those who, in a stupid fashion, remove their capability to reproduce (i.e., can no longer contribute to the gene pool). For a man, a hard enough hit astraddle a bike bar could do that…
Can’t believe I’m the first one to say it. HE WAS DRUNK!!!
GWB has a long history of alcohol abuse. It was one of the things that got him into trouble with the Air National Guard. He was arrested for DUI and had his driving licence taken away. The LoneGunman website had a great video clip of him drunk at a friend’s wedding in 1992 when he was supposed to have been on the wagon since 1987. Choking on a prezel, indeed. What do we normally drink when we’re eating prezels? Beer, for God’s sake.
Besides, you honestly think he’d be in Scotland, home of the world’s best whisky, and not be drunk?
Blimey, if this is a poststructural pub this must be gettin’ near to a poststructural punch-up near poststructural closing time! 
Steve
“Bush in near-fatal G8 accident”
At first glance at that “headline” this morning, I thought it was like, serious, as in on top of the tragedy in London that the President was in a hospital “near-fatal”. (I had just woke up, okay, humor mode was so not even on yet.) Thank heaven’s it’s not that… not exactly a big G. Bush fan, but all the same if he’d been near death/killed on top of everything else… well, I’d have seriously considered giving up the day and going back to bed or something. 
All the same still, today’s one of those days you never want to repeat.
Sara
That only happens in front of the poststructural chipper at 3.00 am
Mrs. Gore?
They hate her in restaurants… She’s a lousy tipper.
I don’t think Mr Happy was having a go at me, seems he was having a go at some unspecified ‘liberal’. Pssst! Joseph! I think he was talking to you!
Look at the time of the first post: 8:25. At that time, GW falling off his bike was the top story of the day here in the UK, and the way it was being reported you’d think his life was hanging by a thread. (They made the same huge song and dance over an aged royal choking on a fish-bone, and a young royal breaking his ankle, so GW’s in good company).
And yup, I do think that it would be worthy of a Darwin Award… can you imagine the stupidity of it? The 59 year old Prez kills himself on the morning of birthday, at perhaps the most important G8 summit of the decade, by pedalling around the estate furiously on a new bike like a kid of 8?
Of course, 25 minutes later bombs started going off all over London and now frankly no-one gives a rat’s arse about GW falling off his shiny new bike. (Except Mr Happy perhaps, who seems to have gotten out of bed the wrong side this morning).