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Isn’t that kind of Gein-ish, in an innocent, sewing circle kinda way?
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Being told to “grow up” by Palin is like being told to “watch your table manners” by Ed Gein.
Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’ 2010
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The events that this was based off of was the murders committed Ed Gein.
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Thanks for turning a legendary Ed Gein-like psychopath into a little kid with a skin disease.
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Although he is often mentioned as the father of the modern serial killer, Gein the name almost rhymes with “fiend” was charged in the death of only two people, which puts him at the extreme low end of the body count scale.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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I had asked Yehuda Bauer if the murders of Ed Gein could be connected to the Holocaust, if the Wisconsin fiend got the idea to make human skin lampshades from reading articles about Ilse Koch.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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However, local police did find books on Nazi medical experiments, including those done at Buchenwald, along with the lampshade Gein made of human skin.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Gein has a basement full of torturing implements, racks up kills like a slasher pic and the whole film has lighting like the Saw films or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.
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Perhaps the most influential flayer of human skin was not a bookbinder, shaman, plastinator, or organ dealer but rather one Ed Gein, a diminutive and seemingly unremarkable resident of windswept Plainfield, Wisconsin, population 889.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Was Saltzman saying that if a lone lunatic SS man, some Ed Gein—style Nazi, had made a lampshade, that would fall under the heading of personal rather than institutional psychopathy and therefore not fall within the purview of august organizations like national museums?
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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