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  • But the other side, the various health boards who have to pay for nurses, doctors, medicines, hospital beds, scalpels and scrumptious hospital dinners, not to mention the plastercast that makes my stookie every 12 weeks, well they are having a tough, tough time of it these days.

    The best things in life are free.... Jeff 2007

  • August 28, 2009 at 3:07 am jesus, the plastercast of the face looks like the famous one of ned kelly australian bushranger that was taken after he was executed by hanging……his last words before execution were: ‘such is life…..’

    Congrats to Howard Waldrop: First American to Win the Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup 2009

  • It was my first time without stabilisers… My father painted Mr Bump and Little Miss Naughty on my plastercast – one of my most treasured childhood memories!

    Mr Mania 2006

  • Kalipedia, he prophesied, would soon be generally adopted and all the graces of life, genuinely good music, agreeable literature, light philosophy, instructive pictures, plastercast reproductions of the classical statues such as Venus and Apollo, artistic coloured photographs of prize babies, all these little attentions would enable ladies who were in a particular condition to pass the intervening months in a most enjoyable manner.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Kalipedia, he prophesied, would soon be generally adopted and all the graces of life, genuinely good music, agreeable literature, light philosophy, instructive pictures, plastercast reproductions of the classical statues such as Venus and Apollo, artistic coloured photographs of prize babies, all these little attentions would enable ladies who were in a particular condition to pass the intervening months in a most enjoyable manner.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • His wrist has been put in plastercast while out in Panama but they think it's a nasty break so he will have to go to Broomfield Hospital on his return to the UK.

    Singletrack Magazine 2009

  • There could be a number of reasons – shame, emotional anguish, the fact that her head’s been in a three-inch-thick plastercast since last Sunday and she can only currently use her mouth for slurping up baby food through a straw.

    Chris Brown Didn’t Leak Those Naked Rihanna Photos, Honest 2009

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