Hikers Find 70 Shoes Filled With Butter

[DuctapeFatwa]

A Swedish couple hunting on a remote mountain Sunday in Sweden's far northern province of Jaemtland found 70 pairs of shoes, all filled with butter.

"If we knew who had done this we could make them clean this mess up," Alf Kjaellstroem, a province spokesman told The Associated Press Thursday. "It's not going to be pretty when the butter starts to rot. And we have to wait for the snow so we can get up there with the snowmobile."

The find was similar to one done by artist Yu Xiuzhen's in 1996.

His exhibit "Shoes With Butter," was laid out in the Tibetan mountains surrounding Lhasa, China.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031009_924.html

[Ediacara]

1. how weird

[DulceDecorum]

2. I just want to know

where they get the money with which to do this.

They say that a fool and his money are soon parted.
I just want to know how they got together in the first place and I solemnly promise to spend the cash on other stuff if you let me in on the secret.

[ender]

9. money?

unless they were all prada shoes, this whole stunt could be done with less than $100.

[kurtyboy]

25. I always heard it differently

A fool and his money are soon partying....

[Eat_The_Rich]

33. Either that or...

bomb some third world country into oblivion.

[Jack The Tab]

3. The ghost of Joseph Bueys...

What a scam that was...

[Journeyman]

4. Ah, yes, modern art . . .

too often, it's the art of bullshit.

[Jonte_1979]

6. I think it is very profound

Seventy shoes filled with butter.

Let it sink in for a while.:D

[mac56]

11. ...okay...I've let it sink in....

Idoan geddit.

[Chovexani]

14. Where's Sister Randy when you need her?

Apparently the schizophrenic crackmonkey was allowed to make art again.

[DS1]

5. perfect example of stupid art

.

[karlschneider]

7. 35 Republicans melted. A miracle of extraordinary magnitude!

:D
edit; oops, 70 PAIRSs...so 70 repugs...

[davidinalameda]

8. we could only be so lucky!

:bounce:

[ReadTomPaine]

28. LOL ! "I'm melting.... melting... Oh what a world..."

Thanks for the visual!

[0rganism]

10. Hey, that was the rapture. If you're reading this now, it's too late

Everything from here on out is just tribulation.

[davhill]

12. That explains a lot about what's been happing lately

[Pastiche423]

13. It came and went and I'm still here

Oh well.



Btw, BEST answer!

[Ediacara]

26. and what a coincidence

That all 70 saved people happened to be in the mountains in Sweden....

:-)

[stevedeshazer]

15. Hmmmm

Shades of Marshall Herff Applewhite....

[TrogL]

16. It's dada - you're not supposed to understand it

Or there's a Zen-like meaning that you have to grok.

I heard last night that Cristo is going to wrap Snoopy's doghouse.

I have no idea - and I like and understand modern art.

[htuttle]

18. Next thing you know, someone will hang a urinal in an art gallery

:)

While DuChampe's 'Fountain' had more explicit meaning, some dada seems to just want to make you go, "What the Fu........?".

It's that :wtf: moment when you've 'skipped out of your groove' that dada seems to want to create.

And I have to say, 70 shoes filled with butter arranged on a remote mountainside certainly makes me go:

:wtf:

[ParanoidPat]

17. His last exhibit, 'Sneakers with Toe Jam'.....

.....really stank! :evilgrin:

[cprise]

19. Nope, not dada

There's no cognitive dissonance there... just nasal distress.

[truthisfreedom]

20. are they SURE they're filled with butter?

what if something inert is inside them, with a little butter smeared on top to make them LOOK like they're filled with butter? did they stick a knife in them?

[snippy]

22. Maybe it is the missing WMD.

[karlschneider]

23. Or maybe someone was just expecting lots of hikers with toast...

:eyes:

[tabasco]

21. Ya' know, I don't care about weirdo "art"...

but f'er cryin' out loud, clean up your mess. It is plain disrespectful to leave this stuff where people are trying to enjoy nature.

[Fozzledick]

24. I don't quite understand your post

Exactly how is this Israel's fault?:shrug:

[Cocoa]

27. I don't get why the province chief is so upset

animals will probably eat the tasty buttered shoes before they rot, they're like twinkies or eclaires.

And even if they rot, it's a remote mountain, who's going to smell it?

[Dr Fate]

29. I prefer toe-Jam to shoe butter myself...n/t

...

[tlb]

30. Quick, prepare 30 loaves of toast

Waste not, want not.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

31. I think it was magic elves!

http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~senglish/elves_and_the_shoemaker.html

[jmowreader]

32. Uh-uh. Underpants gnomes.

SK.