Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/02/pepperoni-seagulls-and-a-luxu.html
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Someone better make an Oscar-winning short film of this incident.
Ok Oscar-nominated. There might be a better film nominated that year.
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Maybe the 17 year ban was really meant to be the lifetime of the seagulls
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Or at least a music video
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No such thing as too much pepperoni brought disaster .
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He may have been given a lighter “sentence” if he had been a huge rock star (with his entourage) and had completely trashed the room.
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That is as funny as Neal Stephenson’s description of Randy Waterhouse’s ride in a Philippines Jeepney in Cryptonomicon!
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I feel like it should be directed by Guy Ritchie, a la Snatch or Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, where the last act is where the story goes off the rails and its just chaos.
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“That Burchill included a pound of Chris Brothers pepperoni with the letter as a peace offering may have had something to do with it too.”
Honestly, after that bit of driving trollies, I’m surprised they didn’t ban him for another 17.
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the movie short better include the line “Mistakes were made,” too, because while he didn’t say it (according to the story, anyway), it’s just too perfect.
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I think the phrase shitstorm is also apt for this story
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agreed. that could be the name of the movie!
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Shitstorm At The Fairmont Empress Hotel
Directed by Guy Ritchie.
Who gets the starring role? I’d prefer it to be played with a straight man a la Leslie Neilsen vs someone playing up the absurdity of the story.
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There was also this:
Burchill tried to dry the shoe with a hairdryer, and when his phone rang, distraction caused the hairdryer to plunge into a sink filled with water.
“I don’t know how much of the hotel’s power I knocked-out, but at that point I decided I needed help,” Burchill wrote.
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It seems odd to mention that he’s a naval reservist.
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Whats odd about a reserve seamen?
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Obviously you haven’t met too many Canadian Navy reservists.
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