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[EX Q]: Image copyright British Museum Image caption The Townley Venus has since been fully restored by conservators 
  
 A waiter working at the British Museum knocked the thumb off a priceless Roman sculpture, it has emerged. 
  
 The accident occurred in December last year, according to The Art Newspaper, but has only just come to light. 
  
 The waiter, who was from an external company, had bent down underneath the Townley Venus and knocked its right hand while getting up again. 
  
 The thumb was knocked clean off the statue and fell to the floor intact. The statue has now been restored. 
  
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 The British Museum said it had taken the incident "seriously". 
  
 "This was an unfortunate incident. The preservation of the collection is of fundamental importance," a spokesman for the museum said in a statement. 
  
 "Our expert conservators have been able to fully restore the object and it has remained on public display. We have retrained all individuals responsible for events." 
  
 The Townley Venus is already missing its index finger, which was broken before the sculpture came to the British Museum. 
  
 The sculpture, which depicts a half-naked figure of the goddess of love, is a marble copy of the Greek original and dates from the 1st or 2nd Centuries. 
  
 It was excavated in 1775 from the baths at the port of Ostia in Rome and bought by English collector Charles Townley. 
  
 It was sold to the British Museum in 1805. The Greek original dates back to the 4th Century BC. 
  
 Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. ||||| When catering a prestigious event, any waiter may fear clumsily dropping a plate or spilling a drink on an eminent guest. 
  
 Few will suffer the indignity of accidentally knocking a thumb off a priceless Roman statue with their head. 
  
 The British Museum has admitted to an “unfortunate incident” which saw the thumb of the famous Townley Venus knocked clean off by a member of catering staff. 
  
 The caterer, who worked for an external company not regularly used by the Museum, had bent down underneath it and bumped into the marble as they got up again. 
  
 A spokesman for the museum said it had taken the incident “seriously”, with the sculpture “fully restored” quietly by conservators. ||||| Work on the Townley Venus was "straightforward". (Image: © Trustees of the British Museum) 
  
 The Townley Venus, one of the British Museum’s most important Roman sculptures, was damaged when its thumb was knocked off as catering staff were setting up for an evening event last December. Although the British Museum’s trustees were informed about the damage, the news was not released to the press or put into the public domain.The Townley Venus is a Roman copy of a fourth-century BC Greek sculpture of the half-draped, goddess of love. The London museum’s marble copy, just over two metres tall, dates from the first or second centuries AD. Found in Rome in 1775, it was bought by the distinguished English collector Charles Townley. In 1805 his descendants sold the Venus to the British Museum, where it is now prominently displayed.Shortly before 6pm on 10 December 2015, external catering staff were setting up for a corporate event in the room, which has Greek and Roman sculpture. The company is not being identified and the museum uses nine outside caterers. A caterer was working too close to the Venus, which is on a low pedestal, and knocked the figure. The thumb on the right hand broke off and fell to the floor. (A finger on the right hand was broken off before the Venus came to the British Museum.)A spokeswoman for the museum tells The Art Newspaper that the break was clean and the conservation work was “straightforward”. The thumb was fixed back with an adhesive and the work was done in situ while the museum was closed.The spokeswoman says that the museum conducted an investigation after the incident: “We have taken steps to ensure it does not happen again. Any staff who are involved in managing or invigilating events have gone through retraining on the protection of objects before and during events.” In 2012 a visitor knocked off part of the hand of the Townley Venus. This broke along an earlier break and was restored.The Venus is depicted in Zoffany’s 1782 painting of Townley’s antiquities collection, a picture now at the museum and gallery in Burnley. ||||| The British Museum and British Museum Shop use cookies to ensure you have the best browsing experience, to improve functionality and to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. By clicking on any link on this page, you are consenting to our use of cookies. (Last updated: 6 December 2018) Find out more |||||
[EX A]: A waiter who was all thumbs cost a priceless Roman sculpture one of its own. The BBC reports on the incident at London's British Museum, which the Art Newspaper says took place in December, in which the unfortunate unnamed server from an outside catering vendor was setting up for a corporate function at the museum. The waiter got too close to the low pedestal of the 3-foot Townley Venus—a Proconnesian marble statue of the goddess of love dating from the first or second century and replicating the Greek original created in the fourth century BC—and accidentally headed the statue's right hand (already missing its index finger), breaking off the thumb and knocking it to the ground, per the Telegraph. "This was an unfortunate incident," a museum spokesman says, adding the museum is taking the breakage "seriously" and that "the preservation of the collection is of fundamental importance." The ancient statue was dug up in 1775 from the Roman baths at Ostia and scooped up by an English collector; he sold the sculpture to the museum in 1805. But apparently the appendage reattachment process was seamless, with another museum rep telling the Art Newspaper it was a "clean" break and the adhesive-assisted fix was "straightforward." That rep also notes that any staff members involved in special events at the museum have been rebriefed on how to work around the venue's antiquities. (A $15,000 Lego sculpture was trashed in its very first hour exhibiting.)

[EX Q]: A woman standing behind Pope Francis before he entered the House Chamber was caught on a live mic saying she wanted to “take my shoe off and throw it.” 
  
 Watch, via CNN. 
  
 Here’s a Soundcloud of the women’s statement, ripped by RedState’s Erick Erickson. 
  
 It’s worth noting that nothing the woman said necessarily indicates that Francis was the target of the shoe. Keep in mind that while Francis was in shoe range, so was Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. 
  
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 Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com ||||| I was listening to the press pool’s open microphone as Pope Francis entered the House of Representatives’ Chamber. Standing behind the Pope was an army of reporters and their cameras and open microphones. 
  
 I had my studio headphones on listening to the chatter of the reporters when suddenly, distinctly, I heard a reporter say she wanted to take off her shoe and throw it. Seriously. 
  
 Listen for yourself. 
  
 Maybe, to be charitable, her feet were hurting. But it was definitely caught on tape and aired live on CNN right after Wolf Blitzer tuned in for live coverage. |||||
[EX A]: Something about Pope Francis' visit to Congress this morning apparently made one mystery woman want to resort to footwear-related violence. Mediaite reports a live mic caught a woman standing behind the pope saying she wanted to "take my shoe off and throw it" just before Francis entered the House Chamber. The bizarre remark aired live on CNN, and RedState claims it came from an unidentified reporter. Mediaite states it's unclear who or what was the target of the woman's ire, but points out that Francis, Joe Biden, and Harry Reid were all within shoe-throwing range.

[EX Q]: "Sex work is simply work. For me it was honest work. I was a sex worker when I was young. It was hard but well paid. There's no shame in it," she said while expanding on a chapter of her life she appears to have rarely discussed. ||||| Tweet with a location 
  
 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| I support sex workers because I was one and I know that it's a job that's needlessly shunned by society when frankly we should be worshipped 
  
  
  
 03:20 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ - ಅಕ್ಟೋ 29,2015 ||||| Sentient merkin and presidential hopeful Donald Trump is hosting “Saturday Night Live” on November 7th, much to the chagrin of many average viewers and some famous ones too. Margaret Cho put “SNL” and its producers on blast on “The Wrap” for courting this probable shitshow: 
  
 “Why has there never been an Asian-American host, cast member or musical guest on ‘SNL’ in 41 years? Forty-one years…Yet they want Donald Trump, a known racist, a known sexist, who disgustingly wants to have sex with his daughter. Who does he think he is, Woody Allen?” 
  
 She’s not wrong. Donald Trump is, indeed, a known racist. He’s also a guaranteed ratings draw, a clear grab at eyeballs and attention. Whether or not you like Trump or not, the fact that he’ll be on “SNL” is almost enough to make you clear your schedule and plop down in front of the show just to see how it all works out. 
  
 “Saturday Night Live” is the only cultural institution in our great nation that has the ability to endear the public to figures that are otherwise noxious and horrible. This isn’t always true — see Miley Cyrus and Lena Dunham — but, there’s something about seeing a celebrity read cue cards and woodenly emote that warms hearts and makes you feel the teensiest, tiniest bit sorry for them. Being on “SNL” is either a dream or a nightmare, and watching famous people figure out where they stand, on live television, in front of a studio audience is compelling television. 
  
 This is one way to get ratings, I guess, but giving a walking, talking, breathing squirrel pelt with more money than Scrooge McDuck a nationally visible platform in which to make noise with his mouth feels egregious. Tune in if you must, because train wrecks observed from the comfort of your own home, with your weed and your snacks and your soft pants are the best kind, but think about it before you do. The internet will give you all you need to know about what he did or didn’t do the next day. Maybe that’s all you need. 
  
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Apparently in response to public shaming of sex workers, Margaret Cho opened up on Twitter Thursday about her past in just that line of work, the New York Daily News reports. "Sex work is simply work. For me it was honest work. I was a sex worker when I was young. It was hard but well paid. There's no shame in it," the comedian wrote. "I support sex workers because I was one and I know that it's a job that's needlessly shunned by society when frankly we should be worshipped," she continued. Then: "Sex workers are glorified in the Bible! Mary Magdalene was a whore and Jesus loved her. The Bible has been turned against us by jealous men." Asked by a follower if her sex work resulted in relationship problems later, Cho got even more candid: "I don't believe so. I think being molested as a child had more to do with that. But as a sex worker I had power+$$$ ... I have way more PTSD from rape. That's real. Sex work was just a good way to make money. ... I found my strength as a sex worker and gained a lot of power as I grew." She says she'll do what she can to protect the rights of sex workers, tweeting: "It's hard work that's not protected by law enforcement or unions. It's unfair. We have the right to our bodies +work." As for why she hasn't talked about this before? "Aw nobody asked! XOXOXOXO" Cho responded to a follower. (Click to find out why she doesn't think Donald Trump should host SNL.)

