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Complex Shit, Man
Telegraph | Submitted by: conculcate
"An inflatable dog turd the size of a house has blown away from a modern art exhibition in a Swiss museum before bringing down an electricity line and smashing a greenhouse window... Complex Shit, a sculpture by the American artist Paul McCarthy, cast loose its moorings and was lifted by a sudden gust of wind from the Paul Klee centre in Berne and carried 200 yards..."
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From: murderburger138 [it's all just dandy until everyone catches fire]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 19:31
shit happens
From: gargoyle1
Date: 12-Aug-2008 19:58
Someone had a shitty day. I'm still laughing so hard that there's tears running down my face. You can't make this shit up.
From: diarrheaomelette [with corn]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 20:01
"Giant inflatable turd" ------------ Telegraph.co.uk had the best headline for this one
From: diarrheaomelette [with corn]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 20:14
depends what you feed yer dog
From: heraclitus
[and in measures dying out]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 20:18
Okay, I'm not sure if I am the first to ask this but since when is Paul McCarthy an "American" artist? I may not be a history buff but I know my Rock'n'Roll and it seems to me that he was part of the Beatles/ British invasion.
From: aulduron
[Aulduron]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 20:24
...I may not be a history buff but I know my Rock'n'Roll and it seems to me that he was part of the Beatles/ British invasion. ... If you were a Rock and Roll history buff, you'd know the Beatle was McCartney, not McCarthy. We really need a new definition of the word "art", so that inflatable dog shit does not fit.
From: dikwitha [Dik]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 20:46
Well, shit muh pants! Shit a brick! Shit fire! Shit happens! Number One, I order you to do a number two! and various other commentations to be released in the future, like so much diahreah, soon. By the way, can ya immagine what the insurance agent thought when she saw the report about replacing the smashed greenhouse window and the reason it got smashed? Flying giant dog turd? Ya heard me?
From: rev [meupnpopmyclutch]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 20:52
I expect they'll recapture the wandering artwork and fly it in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. Behind Wonder-Dog, of course.
From: fiendwith [Machete]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 21:11
I've worked with giant inflatable turds. You're supposed to have a rapid deflation port or a burn-wire. He might be an artist but he's no engineer.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 21:37
Pakul....you 'Devine' deviate! That shit was TRULY 'rotten. Waters is a sick little queer! And Hera.....the Beatles reference still worked even given the single-letter discrepancy; AND beat me to it. Unforgivable. I was to include a Lennon reference in honor of Chapman who was denied parole today. (bastard that he is) I blame Yoko and her plastic vocal chords; can you say 'banshee' boys and girls?
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 21:39
He might be an artist but he's no engineer. ------------------------------------------ He may be a lover but he ain't no dancer. Look out!
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 21:40
And keep watching.................for turds on the wing.
From: pundit [likeIsaid pundit]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 22:01
mcarthy. oh, I thought you said mcartney. most of what he came up with on his own was dog shit too. dooo doo doo doooo doooo dooo daaa daaaa daaa daaaaaa open the door and let me in ya ya etc etc juvenile drivel.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 12-Aug-2008 22:53
So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise You better see right through that mother's eyes Those freaks was right when they said you was dead The one mistake you made was in your head Tell me........how do you sleep? Ah, how do you sleep at night? You live with straights who tell you you was king Jump when your momma tell you anything The only thing you done was yesterday And since you're gone you're just another day Tell me........ how do you sleep? Ah, how do you sleep at night? A pretty face may last a year or two But pretty soon they'll see what you can do The sound you make is muzak to my ears You must have learned something in all those years Tell me........how do you sleep? Ah, how do you sleep at night? (brother) - JL
From: mustafakakka
[MustaffaKakka]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 03:20
Nothing unusual in this story. There is often a strong gust of wind down around my nether regions followed by a turd hurtling through space until it makes its graceful splash into the toilet bowl.
From: useless2society [Useless II Society]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 03:59
Some great art by the great Paul McCarthy.     Fuck Andy Warhol. If it wasn't for him, shit like this would never be called art.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 04:12
Fuck this talentless cocksucker and the worthless nag he trotted forth; I'll take 'Medicine Jar', 'Juniors Farm' and fucking 'Live and let Die' over the vast majority of the shit produced today. Silly sod.......just take the 'art' and gimmee some bloody bacon, toastage, and eggsy. (what I eat first doth be secretive) .....but I think we know!
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 05:13
btw...I wonder where that giant pig from Pink Floyd floated off to as well.
From: ferret [Honkey Kong]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 07:21
YOU'RE SO UGLY, YOU COULD BE A MODERN ART MASTERPIECE! 
From: erethism [i suspect]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 08:57
i smoked a bowl next to this monstrosity a while ago, but failed in my interest to peruse the nearby "heaven" exhibit meandering through a field. the more i think about this pop poop art the less interested i am in divine insperation. GEORGIAN JUDO GOLD 90 KILO
From: sp00k
Date: 13-Aug-2008 09:06
 The source of the inflatable shit --More artwork? ---  Santa Clause with Plug, 2007  'The Garden' (Brilliant!)
From: studgerbil
[Stud]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 10:25
the people who lionize John Lennon at the expense of the other Beatles are clearly not old enough to remember them. Few who remember the group would make that mistake.
From: studgerbil
[Stud]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 10:40
DD - seriously, and I don't mean to condescend, there was a damned good reason that John and Paul published their songs under "Maclen Music" and not, say, "Lenmac Music". Anyone old enough to remember the Beatles firsthand is well aware of the impact that Sir Paul had on the group and their songs. Lennon's best music came within the structure of the group, although his post-Beatles output was memorable, if erratic and wildly uneven. When I was in my late 20's, in the mid 1980's, I dated a girl of about 22 who similarly lionized Lennon and disparaged McCartney. She was just young enough not to remember the group as they were recording, but I found her attitude to be typical of those her age and younger. She was great in the sack or the whole episode would be forgettable. Even six or seven years can be a huge generation gap.
From: mustafakakka
[MustaffaKakka]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 11:12
From: studgerbil [Stud] Date: 13-Aug-2008 10:40 DD - seriously, and I don't mean to condescend, there was a damned good reason that John and Paul published their songs under "Maclen Music" and not, say, "Lenmac Music". Anyone old enough to remember the Beatles firsthand is well aware of the impact that Sir Paul had on the group and their songs. Lennon's best music came within the structure of the group, although his post-Beatles output was memorable, if erratic and wildly uneven. When I was in my late 20's, in the mid 1980's, I dated a girl of about 22 who similarly lionized Lennon and disparaged McCartney. She was just young enough not to remember the group as they were recording, but I found her attitude to be typical of those her age and younger. ................................................... Take a look at the singles that got the Beatles up to and through "Beatlemania". I'm not saying that John's songs were any better than Paul's but to my mind, he drove them to the top. Macca really came into his own from the Beatles' mid-period onwards, and again, just my opinion, he was the better songwriter of the two by the time of the split:- LOVE ME DO - John PLEASE PLEASE ME - John FROM ME TO YOU - John SHE LOVES YOU John I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND - John CAN'T BUY ME LOVE - Paul A HARD DAY'S NIGHT - John I FEEL FINE - John TICKET TO RIDE - John HELP! – John WE CAN WORK IT OUT/DAY TRIPPER – both Paul PAPERBACK WRITER - Paul YELLOW SUBMARINE – John /ELEANOR RIGBY - Paul PENNY LANE – Paul , STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER - John
From: bukweat [otay]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 11:39
Art for art's sake Money for god's sake.
From: studgerbil
[Stud]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 12:00
Their greatest albums led off with Harrisongs, IIRC -- great ones, too. The first great song on Abbey Road was "Something", and George also contributed "Here Comes the Sun". "Taxman" led off Revolver. No original Beatles songs were attributed to Lennon OR McCartney, but always equally to both. You look at every original Beatles record and the songs are listed as written by Lennon/McCartney, unless others wrote them. As a footnote, it was Paul who desperately tried to hold the group together towards the end, although I will never forgive him for selling the catalogue to Michael Jackson.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 12:35
As a footnote, it was Paul who desperately tried to hold the group together towards the end, although I will never forgive him for selling the catalogue to Michael Jackson. --------------------------- Gerbiler; I have no hard-on against Sir Paul, a special reverence for John, and I dug George's solo stuff. (that Dark Horse!) Macca should be whipped with a knotted ploughline for Mull of Kintyre, Silly Love Songs, and Ebony & Ivory however. Uggh! And if I'm not mistaken, I believe Paul bought the rights back from Jacko whence the latter had financial difficulties stemming from his incessant pederasty. Strange days indeed!
From: dikwitha [Dik]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 14:53
Well, screw the Beatles, and for that matter, screw the flying turd thing. I prefer the years of surfing by the Beach Boys and any of the other (local) surf groups. Why bother naming them, they were even before the Beatles and prolly not reme3mbered by 99% of all ye bastages, as Surf music was mostly Southern California coolness... ya know?
From: ciaochowbella
[I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 15:41
An inflatable dog turd the size of a house..... --------------------------- When the writer of this article was a young, idealistic journalism student I imagine he never thought that this particular turn of phrase would never be spewed forth from his fertile little mind. Hell, I've never even THOUGHT this particular combination of words, much less committed them to print....
From: bukweat [otay]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 19:30
You may be onto something(or on something)tardmctardington.There's been the impressionist movement,the surrealist movement,etc. This could be the bowel movement.
From: frogprincess [Frog Princess]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 19:33
You know, I like it... The big turds are strangely beautiful. But mostly I just want to know how the man managed to get himself paid for doing it. And then I think that it was probably by legitimizing himself by wasting a shitload of time and someone else's money in art school until he got like a doctorate. So what I feel when I see this crap is envy.
From: hippityhopp
[bunny meat is good!]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 21:08
From: tardmctardington [Queen of the Cretins] Date: 13-Aug-2008 17:57 I want to be an artist, too. I've gathered up a large quantity of dog poo. Can someone advise me as to the best method of inflation? **** Just take care not to over inflate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv_bjltcg2I
From: frogprincess [Frog Princess]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 21:42
Ha Ha! The bowel Movement. Fuckin-A!
From: timmyturtle [tim t turtle]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 23:13
save that thing for the macy's thanksgiving parade lol! and fly it behind the Clifford The Big Red Dog balloon All i can say is it mustve took one helluva pooper scooper to clean that one up!!
From: wulfgarthewhite [Black to White]
Date: 13-Aug-2008 23:40
 Just don't step in it, Man!
From: mustafakakka
[MustaffaKakka]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 00:53
From: studgerbil [Stud] Date: 13-Aug-2008 12:00 Their greatest albums led off with Harrisongs, IIRC -- great ones, too. The first great song on Abbey Road was "Something", and George also contributed "Here Comes the Sun". "Taxman" led off Revolver. No original Beatles songs were attributed to Lennon OR McCartney, but always equally to both. You look at every original Beatles record and the songs are listed as written by Lennon/McCartney, unless others wrote them. As a footnote, it was Paul who desperately tried to hold the group together towards the end, although I will never forgive him for selling the catalogue to Michael Jackson. ........................................... Totally agree on your "George" song comments but even though original Beatle songs were never attributed to Lennon OR McCartney it's often obvious who the writers were; witness Macca's recent attempts (and Yoko's blocking) to have certain songs in the back catalogue attributed to McCartney/Lennon. The rights to the back catalogue were snatched from under Macca's nose. I saw an interview with McCartney recently where he referred to two or three 'phone calls he had with the kiddy-diddler and he appeared to think that M.J. was joking about buying the songs. For a real back-stabbing, look at Brian Wilson's experience and his dad selling the rights to all those great Beach Boys songs.
From: trafalgamore [Charles Horse]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 01:31
Another CIA "brown-ops" gone sour.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 01:32
Pet Songs. Highly overrated........Wilson should have stayed in So. Cal with the fucking sand in his ears and attempted not to go insane. Charlie was also an unwelcome guest I surmise?   I love these pets.......and they make NO sound. To quote Mel Allen..............'how about that'?
From: bukweat [otay]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 04:37
RABBIT STEW 1 three pound rabbit 6 small onions, chopped 1 bay leaf ½ cup chopped celery 2 tsp. salt 2 cups diced carrots 3 raw potatoes, cut up 3 tbs. flour 1 tbs. chopped parsley Clean rabbit and soak in salted water. Drain, disjoint it in pieces for serving and place in a large kettle with onions, bay leaf, celery and salt. Cover with cold water and cook slowly until tender, about two hours. Add chopped carrots and potatoes and continue cooking until these vegetables are done. Smooth flour with a little cold water and add slowly. When thickened, add chopped parsley and serve.
From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 05:14
Sounds good n1gger........cook and serve boy!
From: kittie
[veil of honesty, how convoluted can you get?]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 05:26
From: aulduron [Aulduron] We really need a new definition of the word "art", so that inflatable dog shit does not fit. ---------------- Hell no. We need dada. Not the kind that sings "Diz-nee-land". Except it'd have to have a new name because it really was period-specific. But I don't have a knife suitable for stabbing phrasebooks. (sigh)
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 19:49
Turds sink and FARTS float...Something wrong here.
From: timmyturtle [tim t turtle]
Date: 14-Aug-2008 20:00
save that thing and fly it behind the Clifford The Big Red Dog balloon in the macys parade. i can just imagine turning this into a insurace company, first thing theyre gonna ask u for a drug test lol especially when you tell them your greenhouse was smashed by a giant flying turd.
Updated: 14-Aug-2008 20:00
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