A role model for us all has passed before his time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/db0402.xml
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Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
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son of parnas
July 5th, 2007 7:03pm
see, what pisses me off is that _myh_ obituary is not giong to be anywhere nearly as interesting as that.
mr wsv, father of two and computer programmer, died last night after a particularly energetic piece of debugging.
he was not a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
but he might have been given the chance.
in other news...
worldsSmallestViolin
July 5th, 2007 8:12pm
> in other news...
A good and loving father, husband, and programmer died today. He did more good in his short life than the heroin addicted aristocrat would do in a dozen.
son of parnas
July 5th, 2007 9:16pm
God bless you, SoP. You're a romantic after all.
SaveTheHubble
July 5th, 2007 9:44pm
Dude, one can be louche at any age. Keep trying. Believe in yourself.
heartsheep
July 5th, 2007 10:44pm
easy on the assumptions, sop. doing good don't have to be boring, you know.
heroin addicted ari$--tocrat
July 6th, 2007 4:04am
Was I the only one who found the final paragraph funny?
a cynic writes...
July 6th, 2007 5:56am
hah. didn't notice that.
I also quite like "When not clad in the lederhosen of his homeland, he cultivated an air of sophisticated complexity by appearing in women's clothes, set off by lipstick and fishnet stockings."
must have been a fun article to write.
heroin addicted ari$--tocrat
July 6th, 2007 7:08am
Louche is my new favorite word.
LeftWingPharisee
July 6th, 2007 7:09am
unless, of course, that's a pic of her when she was older ...
heroin addicted ari$--tocrat
July 6th, 2007 7:11am
Well, if you'd been struck in the head repeatedly with sharkfish's 13 inch purple dildo, that might be a great beauty. Otherwise, I'm not seeing it.
Damn, what an obit. And I learned a new word today: Louche.
And how do you all pronounce this new word Louche?
2 syllables: loo'shh
July 6th, 2007 5:52pm