The History Of Midgets

[bridge_troll]

It is somewhat ironic that the great Isambard Kingdom Brunel, that giant of British engineering, is generally regarded as the inventor of the midget. He would often tell friends that he felt that “There is something unwieldy about a man, something which suggests that he is no longer fit for the purpose which his creator intended. The proper size

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[dmartin]

A full and accurate (if lengthy) account of British and International Midgetry.

[nadadoll]

Save only for the glaring error that looms don't spin. I hope some editor was fired for that.

[bridge_troll]

That's the last time I trust the Encyclopedia Dwarfica.

[primroseport]

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to speak at our national symposium on Midgetry in America. This year's topic is Very Small Closets: Queer Midgetry in a Post-911 World

[bridge_troll]

It had better be more fun that last year's "Short Songs: An aural exhibition of the folk music created by person's of below average height from the years 1951 - 1954".

[primroseport]

oh surely

you like your zombie flics. Have you seen Rabid?

[bridge_troll]

Indeed, although I go backwards and forwards on whether it's really a zombie film or not. At the moment I'd say...yes it is. These minor points of pedantry are important among zombie scenesters.

My life-goal used to be to see every zombie film ever made but then I learned about gay zombie porn and zombie rape films and so I've curbed that somewhat.

[drawingstars]

beautiful, endearing work, Rob.

[bridge_troll]

Next week: "Albino Malaysians with Down's Syndrome and their part in the fall of the Third Reich."