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Great Scott! Lee Redmond's Nails are Broken!

Posted by Norski • 2/13/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: crash, fingernails, lee redmond, news, RECORDS, redmond

It's an international news item: Lee Redmond, world record holder for the longest fingernails, broke her nails in a 4-vehicle accident!

(Read (far from) all about it! - World's Longest Nails Cracked in Crash apatheticlemming.blogspot.com/2009/02/worlds-longest-nails-cracked-in-crash... )

Seriously? She's hospitalized, with non-life-threatening injuries, as far as I can tell. Good news.

Even a Melbourne, Australia, newspaper covered Lee Redmond's accident. Impressive, considering the burning issues 'down under' just now.

To make this a discussion:

1) Has anyone heard who has the longest nails now?

2) Is this news

a) silly?

b) Tragic?

c) Distracting attention from the overwhelmingly vital matter of [fill in the blank]?

d) A plot by the lizard people ( anotherwaronterrorblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/lebanon-israel-pakistan-india-a... ) who run the world?

e) None of the above?

User Comments

2/13/09

FameofShame

My latest blog post is about this story.

fameofshame.com

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1. 2/13/09
  
  Norski
  
  I think quite a few bloggers are posting about this story: for a variety of reasons.
  
  I have no idea why Lee Redmond has maintained her nails that way - but there's going to be quite a bit of speculation.
2/13/09

FameofShame

I blogged about it because she doesn't wear a seat belt.

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1. 2/13/09
  
  Norski
  
  Bingo. Good point.
  
  A much-beloved coach in Minnesota died in a one-vehicle rollover some time back. The vehicle, judging from photos, was virtually undamaged. He'd been shaken, not stirred, like an ice cube in a martini.
  
  And, he hadn't been wearing belts.
  
  Very much not wise.
  
  Again, good point.
2/13/09

legbamel

I firmly believe that authorities will find that whoever caused the accident is related to or has been paid by the person with the second-longest fingernails.

I would hope that the media covered this story to provide a little light relief in the face of such a dreadful week, telling a tale of someone who wasn't badly hurt and didn't lose everything she owned.

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1. 2/13/09
  
  Norski
  
  Now there's a conspiracy theory!
  
  Maybe that second-longest person is one of the lizard people.
  
  About your second paragraph: I think you've hit the nail on the head. I remember the 'serious sixties' and seventies: and learned that it's healthy to lighten up now and again.
2/13/09

Jeunelle

I want to know how does she bathe with them long fingernails? GROSS
Forget I asked, I don't think I want to know.

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1. 2/13/09
  
  Friday13
  
  I think wiping or even scratching are more serious issues.