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Friday, March 9, 2007
10:26:00 AM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment

A Very Thin Entry in the Annals of Awesome Spitefulness


Gaze upon the "Spite House" -- a four-story, five-foot-wide building constructed for the express purpose of annoying another person. I love it. I also can't imagine living in a five-foot-wide house. Seems a little stupid. But, then, I don't have to live there. So rock on, spiteful landlord dude!

For a modern example of this sort of thin living, check out this house in Brazil: One meter wide, ten meters tall. Not gonna live there, either


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  • #2 Comment from monponsett 
    3/9/07 10:48 PM | Permalink
    I'd just go out and push his house over in the middle of the night.

    "NOW who's annoyed, sucka? Have fun at the Motel 6."
  • #1 Comment from anaedream 
    3/9/07 10:58 AM | Permalink
    The old man, who had acquired a reputation as a miser, was obdurate. "Not only will I build the houses," he insisted, "but I will live in one of them and I shall rent to other tenants as well. Everybody is not fat and there will be room enough for people who are not circus or museum folk."

    Curse those museum folk!