Keith Richards

[abbynormal]

Bumped for Guinastasia.

[Auroranorth]

I did NOT snort my father's ashes.

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auroranorth said:

I did NOT snort my father's ashes.

Ah ha! Someone here called it that he was toying with the press!

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I clicked on a site and a close up of his face appeared. Seriously, scared the HELL out of me. He should be used in drug prevention ads.

These are drugs. This is your face on drugs. Any questions.

[Mutagen]

bonsai said:

auroranorth said:

I did NOT snort my father's ashes.

Ah ha! Someone here called it that he was toying with the press!

Woo hoo! That was me! And by the way, thank GOD.

[Brookie]

Yeah, but how sad is it that everybody read the article, thought/said, "Oh wow - oh, well, it's Keith Richards. Weird! Yeah, OK."

His face does look like 10 miles of potholes.

[abbynormal]

Is it wrong that I LOLed when I read the original story?

I love him.

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abbynormal said:

Bumped for Guinastasia.

Thank you most kindly.

As I said in the closed thread:

Guinastasia said:

Plus, keep in mind, when you cremate a body, you don't just get a pile of ashes. You usually have a lot of bone fragments-larger ones are put in a bone grinder of sorts, but you still get SOME foreign materials. They do their best to remove them, but...

(I love having a mortician for a father!)

So it wouldn't be all that feasible.

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Geez, please don't jump to any conclusions about what I'm posting here and now, but...

The original article said that he ground up and added to a coke rail a bit of dad. Now, um, er, people who do a lot of coke might possibly just have a little device for grinding up rocks which would do the trick on an incinerated bone fragment.

And... while no one in their right mind would snort the remains of another human being, imagine for an instant that you're, oh, I dunno, let's say you're a drug-addled rock star known for serious, insane amounts of excess. And let's say that you had Daddy Issues. Or wanted to keep your Rebel Cred, even though you're, like, a great-grandfather (and Crypt-Keeper). And let's say that you were ripped to the tits. And let's say that the amount you figured was symbolically-significant for the act was pretty microscopic; I mean, you don't need to snort a femur to tell yourself you did it.

It's a really, really weird thing to even consider, but... I'm not giving away any secrets when I say that people do some really fucked-up shit when they're high. Oh, cripes, here it is: I can't imagine all the crap and detritus (cigarette ashes, whatever it was cut with, dust, food crumbs) I've hoovered along with blow at the end of a binge, back when I did that stuff. Not on purpose, just that I couldn't be bothered (or didn't have the presence of mind) to pick the garbage out. And didn't care, really, because it's not like your health is #1 in your mind when you go down that road.

I don't find it outside the realm of possibility that he did it and with a rocker's swagger admitted to it, but recanted afterwards to, I dunno, avoid looking like a Massive Tool.

[footballerswife]

abbynormal said:

Is it wrong that I LOLed when I read the original story?

I love him.

If you're wrong, then so am I. I laughed.
I dunno, even if it's true, it doesn't horrify me that much. He said his dad wouldn't mind, so maybe he'd have found that funny? As long as he was snorting his own dad and not one of my family members, I just don't care.

I do hope he was joking, though, because NME have been so immensely proud of themselves for getting that story, and they're annoying, so it would be funny if Keith got one over on 'em.