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Dang, I Hate Breaking A Nail

Posted by DFO

Feb. 13, 2009 9:46 a.m. • 53 comments

Lee Redmond shows off her fingernails, which are about 30 inches long in Salt Lake City, Aug. 8, 2006. Redmonds fingernails were broken off in a traffic accident Tuesday. Her injuries were serious but not life threatening, according to Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Tom Smart)

53 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Sisyphus on February 13 at 9:58 a.m.
Now that’s a life well spent.
Sparky on February 13 at 9:59 a.m.
ick!
brandxranch on February 13 at 10:01 a.m.
How does she wipe?
moscow_minidoka on February 13 at 10:03 a.m.
Eww. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
toadman on February 13 at 10:05 a.m.
All I have to say is “why?”
Cindy_H on February 13 at 10:06 a.m.
Now, that’s a scary Friday the 13th picture.
If she tried to pick her nose, she’d puncture her brain.
Just sayin`
Charlie on February 13 at 10:06 a.m.
She can scratch wherever it itches.
Ravenlady on February 13 at 10:11 a.m.
This lady had nothing better to do with her life. What a shame. Love the comments before, most of those thoughts went through my head also.
JeanC on February 13 at 10:13 a.m.
I can’t stand having my nails grow even a quarter inch long, that is *SHUDDER!!!!!*
toadman on February 13 at 10:19 a.m.
the answer to my question of “why” is most likely “gold digger.”
toadman on February 13 at 10:25 a.m.
…meaning, willing to do anything for fame and fortune. Even become a sideshow freak.
JeanieSpokane on February 13 at 10:34 a.m.
There is a hilarious YouTube of this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdRtrWCv_h0. I laughed myself silly.

ugh!
JohnA on February 13 at 10:37 a.m.
Good pic for Friday the 13th, DFO. I mean, you really nailed it.
nic on February 13 at 10:37 a.m.
At least her nails match her hair!
Joker on February 13 at 10:53 a.m.
Lee Redmond faces manslaughter charges after her best friend said, “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.”
jazzyvandal on February 13 at 10:59 a.m.
Why?
Amy67 on February 13 at 12:10 p.m.
I seriously hope she was not driving with those things!
brandxranch on February 13 at 12:29 p.m.
“”Charlie on February 13 at 10:06 a.m.

She can scratch wherever it itches.”“”

Yeah, Charlie, on anyone waitin’ for the bus along with her!!!
Escapee on February 13 at 1:17 p.m.
I suppose she isn’t going to be working at a clerical job anytime soon…
Liz on February 13 at 1:51 p.m.
OMG
scootermom on February 13 at 2:04 p.m.
What does this woman do? Sit around all day and watch her nails grow? She certainly seems incapable of performing many routine tasks. How does she even get dressed in the morning?

What an incredible, stupid waste of time and human potential.
Bob on February 13 at 2:23 p.m.
In medieval times, grave robbers would clip off the long nails from corpses (fingernails grow for months after death) and sell them to potters who mixed them ground up with clay to make pots. Its where the nursery rhyme “ashes ashes we all fall down” comes from.
Cabbage Boy on February 13 at 2:47 p.m.
“What an incredible, stupid waste of time and human potential.”

Perhaps not. This could the sum of her potential. :)

And Bob, that isn’t the legend behind the “ashes, ashes” I heard. From my medievial-urban legend file, that song came from the plague. “ring around the rosies” were the sores. People put flowers in their pockets to cover the smell.

But as I said, urban legends, who knows.
marmitetoasty on February 13 at 2:53 p.m.
And its atishoo atishoo we all fall down, which was to do with diseases in the olden days……. the black death or something like that, the sneezing and then death….

And the pocket full of posies was to cover the stink of the open street sewers and the rubbish that was lobbed into the street….

x
poolman on February 13 at 3:21 p.m.
I wonder what she will do with the nails now that they are detached from her hands? I’m a bit of finger nail chewer myself - wonder if she would part ways with a couple of them? Imagine - – start feeling a little nervous with a big meeting coming up, pull out the nail and have a few chews to calm the nerves. On the edge of your seat watching a big game come down to the wire - pull out the old nail and have a little chew. That is sick… I do wonder what a nail will sell for on e-bay - you know that is where they are going.
Bob on February 13 at 3:41 p.m.
CB, you caught me. I was just making crap up. Same with potters using fingernails procured by graverobbers.
Arch_Druid on February 13 at 7:35 p.m.
That should have been the APhoto of the day!

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