User:Xamralco/Sweeney Todd
Sweeney "Demon Barber" Todd (born Benjamin Barker; 1805-1846) is a 19th century, meat pie-loving barber who looks an awful lot like Johnny Depp. He is the founder of the popular Sweeney Todd's Tonsorial Parlor chain of barber shops and was the co-owner of Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies: Savory and Sweet Pies, an iconic diner on Fleet Street in London, along with Nellie Lovett, his only friend despite a few pieces of metal. Ironically, despite being a barber, Todd has never cut a customer's hair. Rather, he stabs them in the neck with a razor, drops them head-first down a two-story chute, chops them into little pieces, and makes them into pies.
Early life[edit | edit source]
New venues[edit | edit source]
Murder of Adolfo Pirelli[edit | edit source]
Soon after his return to London, Todd happened upon a rival barber and Irishman in denial, Adolfo Pirelli, selling bottles of his own pee to passerby. After challenging him to both a shaving contest and (for some strange reason) a tooth-pulling contest, Todd managed to humiliate Pirelli in front of a crowd of twelve people and his apprentice, Tobias Ragg.
"Epiphany"[edit | edit source]
After losing his first customer in mid-shave, Todd had, what he called, an "epiphany" and developed the complicated philosophy known today as Toddism.[1] The entire philosophy is based upon the idea that life really sucks and that killing everyone is the best way to ease the pain, or, as Todd put it:
“ | We all deserve to die... The lives of the wicked should be made brief and for the rest of us death should be a relief! | ” |