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Dorothy's Ruby Slippers Stolen From Museum
Foxnews ^ | August 29, 2005 | AP

Posted on 08/30/2005 7:48:16 PM PDT by Last Dakotan

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

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: museum; oz; rubyslippers; theft; wizard
I'd check with those local witches. GRHS Class of '80
1 posted on 08/30/2005 7:48:19 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Last Dakotan

Uh oh. Can't go back to Kansas.


2 posted on 08/30/2005 7:51:04 PM PDT by My2Cents ("It takes a nation of candyasses to hold this military back.")
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To: Last Dakotan
That good 'babe' witch can just wave her want and 'poof' they will be back on Dorothy's feet.

I've seen it done a dozen times.

Problem solved.

3 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:08 PM PDT by keithtoo (Howard Dean's Democratic Party: Traitors, Haters, and Vacillators)
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To: Last Dakotan

red slippers right up there with a major natural catastrophy on our own Gulf Coast.


4 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:10 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: Last Dakotan

There's no place like the pawn shop.


5 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:44 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. - Patrick Henry)
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To: Last Dakotan
Check this out
6 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:53 PM PDT by Pharmboy (There is no positive correlation between the ability to write, act, sing or dance and being right)
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To: Last Dakotan

Anyone check harvey firestien's closet... or San Fransisco?


7 posted on 08/30/2005 7:53:21 PM PDT by Americanwolf (I cannot believe a parent would prostitute her child's memory for her own political agenda. -AW)
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To: Last Dakotan
No security videos? Someone around there have a serious 'foot-fetish'?

Surely there must be someone. . .who fits the profile.

8 posted on 08/30/2005 7:53:59 PM PDT by cricket (.Just say NO U.N.)
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To: cricket

9 posted on 08/30/2005 7:57:55 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Ohio State (-15) vs. Miami of Ohio, September 3rd)
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To: MikeinIraq

Ya gotta give some kinda warning before you just start throwing photos like that out there.


10 posted on 08/30/2005 7:59:59 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: MikeinIraq
Her official Senate photo?
11 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:55 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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To: Last Dakotan

They couldn't have taken Dorothy's ruby slippers, I bought 'em off eBay 4 years ago!


12 posted on 08/30/2005 8:40:26 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: 359Henrie

nah they left out the brooom


13 posted on 08/30/2005 9:15:22 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Ohio State (-15) vs. Miami of Ohio, September 3rd)
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To: hattend; patton; pissant; GoldCountryRedneck

I thought they would look nice with my nomex flight suit at Reno.

Could you blame me, really?


14 posted on 08/31/2005 7:03:44 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (If I saw myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass.)
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To: Dashing Dasher

Don't the high heels make it tough to use the brakes?

I'm out of here tomorrow (Thursday) morning, headed down to California, St Lucia, and then Reno. No OFST for the next 3 weeks.

WooHoo!


15 posted on 08/31/2005 7:50:27 AM PDT by hattend (Go Bear! #77)
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To: hattend

Brakes?
We don't need no stinkin' brakes!


16 posted on 08/31/2005 8:52:25 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (If I saw myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass.)
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To: MikeinIraq

I thought she called her husband boob, not broom.


17 posted on 08/31/2005 6:22:50 PM PDT by 359Henrie
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