# cursed idol of Colonel Sanders retrieved from depths

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**Created:** [March 12, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursed-idol-of-colonel-sanders-retrieved-from-depths/489227 "2009-03-12T17:54:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursed-idol-of-colonel-sanders-retrieved-from-depths/489227/24 "2021-11-19T03:09:26Z")

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If **Lumpy** can revive his Cursed Col. Sanders thread with a new pic, I think I can revive my Brooding Lenin thread:

> [@50 years on, Lenin still brooding over one of the most inaccessible places on Earth](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/50-years-on-lenin-still-brooding-over-one-of-the-most-inaccessible-places-on-earth/389038):
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> [News reports](http://www.nbc4.com/news/10808579/detail.html) indicate that a team of one Canadian and three Britons have reached the “Pole of Inaccessibility” - the spot in the centre of Antarctica that is farthest from any coast. And they did it on foot, and by kite-skiing - no motorised equipment. And they found [Lenin](http://www.k2climb.net/news.php?id=15530) waiting for them. Or at least, a bust of him that a Soviet expedition put up 50 years ago. Poor V.I. - still dreaming of the proletariat revolution that was going to sweep the globe…

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