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'Brokeback' shirts go for $100,000
CNN News ^
| February 22, 2006
Posted on 02/22/2006 5:15:24 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Tom Gregory just spent more than $100,000 on two used cowboy shirts.
And he couldn't be happier.
The shirts are the ones worn by the ill-fated lovers, played by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, in Oscar front-runner "Brokeback Mountain." The shirts that represent their relationship. The shirts that, to Gregory, represent the ongoing plight of gays for acceptance in society.
"They really are the ruby slippers of our time," said Gregory, 45.
A longtime gay activist, Gregory plans to keep the shirts "as they were, on the hanger, entwined."
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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: brokebackmountain; homosexualagenda; rubythlippers; tomgregory
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I hope they washed them first.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:16:49 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:17:15 PM PST
by
Trillian
To: All
"A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." - from THE BIBLE: Luke 6:45
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:17:16 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The ruby slippers of our time.
Oh my.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:18:49 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"They really are the ruby slippers of our time," said Gregory, 45. ...said Gregory, 45 who's been known to where ruby slippers wherever he goes.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:18:59 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:19:46 PM PST
by
SaveTheChief
("This one goes to eleven.")
To: Dog Gone
There's no place like Brokeback. There's no place like Brokeback. There's no place like Brokeback.
Just click the ruby slippers three times.
:-)
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:19:50 PM PST
by
Herford Turley
(Conservatism will save America)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
'Brokeback' shirts go for $100,000
'Fudgepack' bottoms, slightly lower
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:20:07 PM PST
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: Dog Gone
But we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto . . .
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"Gregory plans to keep the shirts "as they were, on the hanger, entwined."
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:20:23 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"They really are the ruby slippers of our time," said Gregory, 45. And the jokes just write themselves.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:20:29 PM PST
by
steveo
(my tagline is lost - I'll find it ... yes I will.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"They really are the ruby slippers of our time,"
Used toilet paper would be a better comparison.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:21:14 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Somewhere over the rainbow.........Judy Garland is hurling right now.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:24:00 PM PST
by
NavVet
(“Benedict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
To: SaveTheChief
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:28:02 PM PST
by
digger48
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Wonder how much a couple of these might be worth.
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:34:41 PM PST
by
carlr
To: Herford Turley
"Hey buddy, those don't belong to you, and they're not ruby slippers so stop with the clicking!"
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posted on
02/22/2006 5:35:40 PM PST
by
kenth
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