Gasp - they've guillotined Hermione?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I love this - it has to be the most ludicrous attempt to shoehorn last week's Harry Potter premiere into every damn news* article they could think of. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5775077/Thousands-beheaded-in-French-Revolution-named-online.html

(*or rather, PR generated press-release about a website launch, basically a free advert, but the sort of thing that passes for 'news' nowadays, because journalists are too lazy to look for the real stuff. And it isn't even 'new' - the lists were reprinted in the French press in 1989 (happy anniversary!) and have been an online phenomenon in France for a couple of years now).

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[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

they keep trying don't they? Oh well, i'm still gonna see the movie =) But that's cool that they're finally doing that..i think? That's interesting..very very interesting..

[(Anonymous)]

Whoah. That is an amazingly unfocused collection of sentences.

[misatheredpanda.livejournal.com]

*that was me, apologies not paying attention

[neuropathology.livejournal.com]

Hahahahhahahaha! Oh god, could that have made ANY less sense?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, new macabre games. Sounds like the Thermidorians. "Ooh, I've got guillotined ancestry by the evil Maximilien Robespierre! I am so cool!" Do they get certificates too? To frame that and all. It's so worth of attention.

[lucieandco.livejournal.com]

*stopped reading after 'bloodthirsty' (well, okay, I spotted 'brutal and gruesome', too)*
Ah, what else is new?

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

"The French Revolution was a brutal and gruesome period of history, with repercussions that were felt both in France and across the world socially, culturally and politically.

he records of more than 13,000 executions also include Maximilien Robespierre, the fanatical republican lawyer who led the four year 'Reign of Terror' during which no member of the aristocracy and Catholic clergy was safe.

Number one: This is horrendously, eye-rollingly sensationalized nonsense.
Number two: What the hell kind of ending is that? Who ends a piece of writing like that? A middle schooler?
Number three: The picture of Emma Watson at the top made me LOL. I did have a strange dream once where Hermione was somehow a Thermidorian, though. XD;

[momesdelacloche.livejournal.com]

Cba reading the article but old list is old... les.guillotines.free.fr/ has been around for ages, hasn't it? At least 100 years