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Becks, it's just armless fun
U.K. Sun ^ | 25 Mar 09 | SHAUN CUSTIS and VIRGINIA WHEELER

Posted on 03/26/2009 5:27:22 AM PDT by PurpleMan

STUNNED David Beckham gasped in horror yesterday as he shook an injured Royal Marine’s hand — and it came off.

England hero Becks went ghostly pale as he clutched the limb while Commando Ben McBean screamed: “My arm! My arm!” But the star’s shock turned to relief as onlookers howled with laughter and he realised he was holding Ben’s prosthetic arm rather than a real one.

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Being able to laugh about it would appear to show a level of recovery.
1 posted on 03/26/2009 5:27:22 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan

I’d call that an understatement.


2 posted on 03/26/2009 5:28:11 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." ~Sam Brown)
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To: PurpleMan

Warning: British humor may cause loss of bowel control - lol!


3 posted on 03/26/2009 5:29:59 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: PurpleMan

Soccer is a diversion for leftists eurotrash and third world loosers.

looks like it will fit in well with the Obama Marxist/fascist regime.


4 posted on 03/26/2009 5:30:50 AM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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You have to be really “pissed” to like “football.”


5 posted on 03/26/2009 5:34:14 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: subterfuge

warning! Went to the site and got one of those pop up things about scanning my puter and couldn’t get it to stop,,it looked scary to me, ha to turn off the page and the puter.


6 posted on 03/26/2009 5:41:27 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Vaquero

One of the reasons I like it is because it pisses ostensible conservatives off.


7 posted on 03/26/2009 5:42:33 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: PurpleMan

Not surprisingly, the only Brit’s left with any cajones call themselves ‘Marines’. (FWIW-my son gets his Eagle, Anchor and Globe TODAY!)


8 posted on 03/26/2009 5:43:40 AM PDT by Spok
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I got that, too, yesterday when visiting the Times Online (UK). Must be some sort of adware. Really annoying.


9 posted on 03/26/2009 5:49:40 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama dozed.....people froze.)
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To: cajungirl

The same thing happened to me. I closed the window and ran a Norton 360 scan. No viruses found. I think it’s probably a scary pop-up ad for virus checking software. Jerks!


10 posted on 03/26/2009 5:50:37 AM PDT by GuySwell
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but it dosent piss off REAL conservatives?

Please.

what is YOUR distinction between ostensible and real conservatives.

I am a Paleo conservative...if any conservative is less than conservative it is the Neo-con bs.


11 posted on 03/26/2009 5:51:47 AM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Great. A post about a wouned soldier who has/is recovered is turned into a “I’m more conservative than you are.”

Marvelous.


12 posted on 03/26/2009 5:55:24 AM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: PurpleMan

That’s funny right there, I don’t care who ya are!


13 posted on 03/26/2009 5:56:37 AM PDT by airborne (Obama is finishing what Osama started! The destruction of the American economy!!!)
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To: PurpleMan; 1rudeboy; Vaquero

Group hug?

8^)


14 posted on 03/26/2009 5:57:59 AM PDT by airborne (Obama is finishing what Osama started! The destruction of the American economy!!!)
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To: Vaquero

I just think it’s funny that people feel the need to rip on soccer every opportunity they get, regardless of the thread’s subject matter.


15 posted on 03/26/2009 5:59:10 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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"Soccer is a diversion for leftists eurotrash and third world loosers."

Yeah, those Royal Marines are real "loosers" aren't they?

16 posted on 03/26/2009 6:00:41 AM PDT by Sam's Army
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Shut up, neocon! :)


17 posted on 03/26/2009 6:03:31 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Spok

I’ve yet to come across any Briton, with or without cajones, who calls himself a ‘Marine’. Those who call themselves ‘Royal Marines’, however,....that’s a different matter.


18 posted on 03/26/2009 6:10:22 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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In the amicable spirit of this thread, the Spanish Spelling Police are here! “Cojones” refers to testicles, if one must be vulgar rather than finding a dictionary to learn some Quality Adjectives in English.

“Cajones” are boxes or dresser-drawers, and I assume most British, military or civilian, have some.


19 posted on 03/26/2009 6:30:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." ~Sam Brown)
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To: 1rudeboy

REAL men don’t even know who David Beckham is; much less that there is such a thing as the internet.


20 posted on 03/26/2009 6:44:23 AM PDT by Sam's Army
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