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Iowa State Fair Plans to Build a Statue of Michael Jackson Out of Butter

Posted by Tim Carman on Jul. 1, 2009 at 2:27 pm

The best line from this WHO-TV item: "Jackson will sit alongside the iconic butter cow in the Agriculture Building in a 40-degree cooler."

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  1. Capital Spice July 1st, 2009
    3:37 pm
    #1

    Love it!

    We took a vacation to Hungary a few years back and visited Szentendre, a small town on the Danube. The town's biggest claim to fame? The Szabo Marzipan Museum, which features a life-size statue of Michael Jackson made of...wait for it...

    White chocolate.

    I did an image search and found a decent one here: http://www.andycarvin.com/photos/PICT1060.JPG

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