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Somebody give that man an Oscar!
-- James Blount (littlejohnnyjewe...), January 27th, 2003

http://www.deutsche-liebeslyrik.de/anderes/wilde.JPG

the new parisian pop and soul

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 20:55 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Victorians/oscar490x20.jpg

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/o-wilde.jpg I've had kids throwing stones at my head

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.caltanet.it/html/dossier/arte/wilde/img/oscar3.jpg allo, monsieur flic-secrete, attention!

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.stevens-tech.edu/~dbelson/oscar.gif tG http://www.movieforum.com/people/actors/jacklemmon/images/oddcouple.jpg M http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3416/history/niemeyer_mini.jpg N

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha! I RUIN YOUR THREAD!

http://www.southalabama.edu/mitchellcenter/images/Carrot%20Top.gif

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

(For all I know, his name might be Oscar.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahahaha... that's the first time that Carrottop has made me laugh.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I SOOOOO want one of those microphone-on-chest thingamawhatchits.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

It's good for when you're prop-comedying and you need to have your hands free!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.berklee.edu/news/9999/images/Peterson.gif

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.acay.com.au/~narcosis/images/oscaralfred.jpg hey! what are you doing? http://www.electroasylum.com/muses/bosie1.JPG

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Nickalicious, you can build one yourself with a coat hanger. My first band, in eighth grade, did that because we couldn't afford a mike stand. Bend a wire coat hanger so that the big part fits around your neck and the hook so that it will hold a mike. Then don't move around too much. DIY, man.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/wildphot/2N-2-2a.GIF

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:43 (twenty-three years ago)

That really is him.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/bosie.jpg
that was before i knew what you were like http://nyartsmagazine.com/58/images/oscar.jpg oh, i should be in Switzerland

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Greece

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

grease

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 January 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.simons-rock.edu/~bad/ARTSLAW/court_front_med.jpg oh, I used to be such a happy chap

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.hypepublicity.com/new/guys/Photo%20Tour%20Images/Darren%20Oscar%20Wilde%201.jpg
...and if anyone wants me, I'll be right here

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 27 January 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Funnily enough, I read "The Portrait of Dorain Gray" just two days ago. So many weird coincidences happen between me and ilx it's spooky.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 27 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

One More time

― brg30 (brg30), Monday, 27 January 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't want to know http://home.arcor.de/oscar.wilde/pictures/cyril.204x330.jpg everything about you http://home.arcor.de/oscar.wilde/pictures/vyvyan.207x330.jpg

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

http://members.lycos.nl/kvancauw/images/Constance_and_Vyvyan.jpg

you never gonna beat my highest score

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.monty-pythons.com/album/Episode_39/01-oscar-wilde.jpg

maybe too much custard in my youth

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Erik -- who is that beautiful blonde boy seated at desk upthread? Not Oscar Wilde surely?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 January 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary -- alfred douglas http://www.besuche-oscar-wilde.de/bilder/alfred1.jpg oscar's wonderboy http://members.lycos.nl/kvancauw/images/Bosie.JPG he wears the finest corduroy

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/wildphot/3N-1.GIF

I think there's something you should know

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

we're lying in the gutter http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/computer/image/sesame/oscar.gif but we're looking at the stars http://www.leonardmaltin.com/7-27-02/Oscar.jpg

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I love you erik digibeet.
Every post is such a treat.

(I detest Bosie.)

― estela, Monday, 27 January 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

i like how you can totally see the rockstar sock down OW's trews in the first post in answers

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.besuche-oscar-wilde.de/bilder/ross.jpg

and maybe we could break into our old school
and spend ages just lying on the tennis courts

― erik, Monday, 27 January 2003 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/wildphot/2N-2-16.GIF
keep your channel tunnel and old that stuff
http://www.theater-die-tonne.de/Bunbury/Images/wilde3.jpg no interrailing camping or sailing

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.rohdenetz.de/wilde/bild/newyork.jpg

that's good advice. i've fallen in many a grave due to irresponsible cape-walking.
-- g-kit (gregkitte...), December 16th, 2002.

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchiveImagesR/DollsRosa001.JPG

y'see we still haven't been asked to do a tour with britney

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't got the grips with pacman yet
http://www.oddbooks.co.uk/harris/wilde.gif

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

http://hem.passagen.se/lmw/brooke1913.jpg Oh goody -- that means I can have Rupert all to myself!
-- j.lu (flavi...), December 5th, 2002. http://www.liv-coll.ac.uk/pa09/europetrip/brussels/images/brooke.gif

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

you will have your revenge

http://www.tangents.co.uk/tangents/modern/graphics/baxendale.jpg

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 01:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Alfred Douglas is fine. Oscar W. had good taste. He's not the one who framed him, is he? Naughty boy.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone check the family tree with...

http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~postg21/Graphics/JPEGs/KevinShields.JPEG

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~postg21/Graphics/JPEGs/Kevin.JPEG

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Funnily enough, I read "The Portrait of Dorain Gray" just two days ago.

And last week I was reading Robert Hichens' The Green Carnation, a contemporary satire on "Bosie" and Wilde. Has anyone else read this?

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 03:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The Kevin/Oscar combination pleases my "I value them both so very much" self.

Robert Ellman's Wilde bio = urgent and key reading for all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 04:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate Bosie; so treacherous and narcissistic.

― estela, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.oldbaseball.com/hom/oscar_gamble2.jpg

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

When do pitchers and catchers report?

http://www.atomichammer.com/agffl/images/oscargamble.jpg

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 05:16 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/images/donogh4.jpg
http://members.chello.nl/e.visser25/BowlingJas2.jpg

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

has any one read will selfs new dorian

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.laweekly.com/images/ink/00/52/52wls6.jpg
"just because i like tigermilk doen't mean i'm fucking twee"

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

hanging
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out
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with
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her
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this
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year
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I won't regret missing out on European discotheques

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/jun_98/kaufman/small/02.JPG

He's not the one who framed him, is he? Naughty boy.
-- Mary (maj23...), January 28th, 2003.

what do you mean?

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"I tried to keep the floor alive"

http://www.arts.cornell.edu/newsletr/spring96/images/salome.jpg

oscar wilde in salome costume

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I just called my boyfriend and almost said "This is the thread where I ask if you need anything from the store." (26 new answers) http://arcane.morrissey-solo.com/smiths/interviews/1984/smash3th.jpg

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

What's the last thing you bought online? http://www.cornerstonemag.com/imaginarium/features/img/albright/hatfield.jpg (182 new answers) (23 new answers)

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Why do people steal so many books (etc.) from public libraries? (57 new answers) http://www.paisleybabylon.com/itempics02/0000627a.jpg

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.alma-mahler.at/images/kokoschka.jpg

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 12:37 (twenty-three years ago)

that kokoshka is beautiful, colin

http://home.arcor.de/oscar.wilde/pictures/constance.204x330.jpg
http://www.besuche-oscar-wilde.de/bilder/constance01.jpg
http://www.jeancocteaurep.org/images/photos/wilde_constance_146x190.jpg

murderers, the hope of women

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.museumserver.nl/museumkrant/editie18/graphics/kokoschka.jpg

All Kokoschka is beautiful, Erik.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

...and I just found a secondhand copy of oscar wilde's fairy tales
http://www.greenhillgalleriesadelaide.com.au/lacey/2002/thehappyprince.jpg

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1670000/images/_1674308_walld.jpg happy harry prince http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1670000/images/_1674308_wallb.jpg notice the row of black pants and shoes in the right corner

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/portraits/kokoschka.jpg
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/july11/gifs/Oliveira_180.jpg "All Kokoschka is beautiful, Erik" ich weiss nicht

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

don't schmooze in front of me!

http://www.keithryan.com/Images/Keith%20and%20Oscar%20Robertson.jpg

baskettball oscar robertson

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

(Mary, I believe it was Douglas' father who accused Wilde of "posing as a sodomite.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.cinerhama.com/oddsnsods/levant.jpg

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

he literally wrote "posing as a somdomite" creating the most famous misspelling in history.

http://home.arcor.de/oscar.wilde/pictures/queensberry.286x342.jpg

Bosies bully father posing as a Nazsi

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

btw, Colin, the painting that the celluloid Dorian Gray looks at in the picture upthread, could almost pass for a work by your favourite Oscar.

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Levant, the other highly quotable Oscar

http://www.geh.org/taschen/l197600470002.jpg

"So little time and so little to do."

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~philorch/Images/Levant.gif

http://www.workinghumor.com/quotes/oscar_levant.shtml

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~philorch/Images/Levant.gif

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"What the world needs http://66.45.57.13/wwyk/shows/sesamestreet/oscar.jpg more geniuses with humility, http://www.stampsfiji.com/stamps/sesamestreet/images/oscar.jpg there are so few of us left." http://www.rebirthman.de/sesame/sesame_oscar.jpg

― erik, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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