ROME (AP) — Justin Gatlin beat Usain Bolt by a hundredth of a second Thursday night to win the 100 meters at the Golden Gala meet, the Jamaican’s first significant loss since his false-start disqualification in the 2011 world championships in South Korea.
Gatlin was timed in 9.94 seconds and was restrained in his celebration, just clapping his hands rapidly. The American has won all five of his 100-meter races this year and is shaping up as a serious threat to Bolt at the world championships in Moscow in August…
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dewzke
Going back to school soon and I tested out of four classes! I actually kicked the tests in the keister! Counselor gave me a high five that was so loud! I haven’t taken a class in 15 years.
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Violet
Avoiding doing some health insurance paperwork. It’s not hard, just tedious. I don’t want to do it. I’m lethargic because it’s gone hot all of a sudden. Just feel like lounging about, maybe near a pool.
Very cool; we haven’t had a dominant US sprinter in awhile. Maybe the rivalry will heat up (although Bolt always seems to have another gear in the big meets).
Sigh, still mad at EugeneNike for swiping the Olympic T&F trials; I miss going.
Look! There’s a dead witch under the house and everything’s in color!
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dewzke
@Violet: Pool and a cool drink would be nice…although it is raining again for the 10 out of last 12 days…
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lamh35
Okay, so here I sit watching Total Recall (the remix) and thinking meh, but I don’t hate it. Is that weird? Maybe it’s cause I heart Colin Ferell, or maybe it’s because of the total girl crush I have on Kate Beckinsale since Underworld. Any movie with Katey B busting heads and kicking names is a goo one in my book.
The Republican fail parade will continue as planned tyvm
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scav
Bother. Been off too busy weeding, cleaning files, tea kettles, etc, to contribute enough here to merit Naughty Munchkin. And it wasn’t even an honor I was even aware I longed for, but am now pining for. drat drat drat.
Winkie, Quadling or Gillikin just won’t do.
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The Red Pen
Got an email today at my dot-mil email address informing everyone that stories about the NSA and phone records are based on leaked information and we must not read about it on government computers.
SO NO SPOILERS!
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Amir Khalid
@lamh35:
Not to disparage Gatlin’s achievement, but a 0.01s margin of victory suggests he was about 10cm, or 4 inches, ahead of Usain Bolt at the finish line. That must be awfully close to the margin between a barely discernible victory and a dead heat.
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lamh35
Now watching Action Jackson. Carl Weathers, Vanity (I still think she and Appolonia are clones), pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone and pre-RWNJ Craig T Nelson. I know most young people probably know Carl from the Happy Gilmore movie, but for me Carl Weathers will ALWAYS be Action Jackson…lol.
Scene nobody ever forgets, “balls in a jar”…if ya seen the movie, ya know what I’m talking about.
Got an email today at my dot-mil email address informing everyone that stories about the NSA and phone records are based on leaked information and we must not read about it on government computers.
You guys have seen EVERYTHING.
The end.
You’re welcome.
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gbear
I guessed right that Tom Emmer was going to run for Michele Bachmann’s seat. He’s far less entertaining than Bachmann, but his ideas are just as bad. We were SO damned lucky that he didn’t become governor.
It’s been cloudy, rainy and in the 50’s all week in the Twin Cities. It’s getting kind of depressing that after the six months of winter that we’ve only had about a half-dozen warm days.
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red dog
On the bright side, maybe all this snooping by the Feds and Verizon will make snail mail more attractive and the Post Office profitable.
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Schlemizel
I never spent much time on the West coast there but over to your right we used to get huge rain storms nearly every day from March to November. is that unusual on th Gulf side?
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Omnes Omnibus
@lamh35: How could you possibly think Vanity and Appolonia were clones? IIRC Vanity had much more of a heart shaped face. Yeah, I noticed their faces too.
@Omnes Omnibus: I wouldn’t know too busy noticing that both just love showing their boobies back in the day. I swear I think I saw Vanity’s nipples more than my own back in th 80’s…lol
Oh and I can tell em apart, but I swear back in the da I had to give myself the inner…purple rain appolonia, singer Vanity, but wait, Appolinia sang and Vanity acted…
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maya
Well. After all that has transpired, OBushma is the penultimate naughty Munchkin.I will never vote for him again.
When I was a kid CBS showed Oz once a year & it was a special treat to be allowed to watch on the old black & white. About 1971 or 72 there was a showing of the actual film on the MN campus so I went over there with some friends & when Dorothy opens the door in OZ & steps out I was shocked! Involuntarily I said out loud “Oh my god, its in color!” much to the amusment of everyone else there who apparently had color TVs at home
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Violet
@ranchandsyrup: Wow, what a crazy story. Kind of reminds me of the “Catch Me If You Can” kid. Seems like he could take that talent for deceit and turn it to good somehow. Not everyone could pull that off.
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Omnes Omnibus
@lamh35: Believe me, I noticed the other parts as well; it’s just that I am enough of a gentleman that I noticed their faces too. I think they were both taller than Prince.
@Violet: At the end he says he wants to be a sports journo so maybe the deceit will come in handy? It’s crazy how few people did their diligence in that story. Growing pains with the intertrons I suppose. Have a good night Violet.
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dewzke
@Corner Stone: What are we (as readers of this comment of yours) supposed to be thankful for?
Basically Texas law allows you to kill someone who steals property from you at night and walk away. Stealing property at night includes an escort taking $150 from a client and then refusing to have sex. I haven’t seen anyone talk about the fact that paying someone to have sex is also illegal in Texas and it doesn’t seem that he is going to be prosecuted for that.
I wasn’t suggesting it was a great accomplishment. And, to answer your question, Mary Lou Retton.
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Violet
@ranchandsyrup: But it was 2009 at the height of the story. It’s not like it was 1994 and “Growing pains with the intertrons” might be a more reasonable excuse. People know how this stuff works now. Or they should.
The scary bit is how few so-called journalists did any checking of sources. And when they discovered they’d been had, it seems they just pulled the stories instead of printing retractions (one did print a retraction). The state of journalism is sorry.
I hope he can figure out how to use his talents for something useful. He’s got skills. Just not sure how he can use them.
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Betty Cracker
@Schlemizel: Not unusual at all; you can practically set your watch by the afternoon thunderstorms, which are the only things that make summer bearable. But the wind and rain today weren’t typical.
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lamh35
@Omnes Omnibus: well as a woman, I’m no gentlemen. Shoot it was all nips with those women…lol
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Yatsuno
@Felanius Kootea: So a Texas jury just rewarded a man in the commission of another felony. Stay classy dudes.
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Montysano
About a year ago, my job of 21 years came to an end when a giant corporation bought the local theatrical lighting dealership where I worked, and promptly disappeared it. I thought I had landed on my feet by getting a really good paying job in the commercial lighting business, but it’s the nastiest, ugliest, most corrupt, vicious and unethical business imaginable. So here I am at 59 years old, looking for an exit strategy. Mrs. Monty and I are seriously considering selling our house and using our considerable equity to buy some acreage here in north Alabama. I’ve had enough of Thunderdome.
@Violet: A fair point re: 1994 v. 2009. I was (inartfully) trying to get at the point that googling someone isn’t enough diligence. The kid gamed the google results.
Another weird point about these sorts of fraud stories–the people that get fooled (the agents, journalists and coaches in this story) are embarrassed enough not to out the guy.
@Betty Cracker: Re: your earlier thread, wanted to say I know the eggs from your lovely hens are as Monsanto-free as you can possibly make them! There’s nothing like fresh eggs from free-ranging hens. Yum!
Amazing how many horrible movies Sharon Stone made before and after Basic Instinct, but in that one moment, she made a greatly entertaining film. I still like to watch it on cable and netflix.
As for the NSA story, I’m still very meh. I think legit questions need to be asked about the scope of Govenment power, but I’ve long assumed anything I post online or send via text etc wasn’t irrevocably private.
Hell, at my old IT job I was in charge of the email servers and I could easily gaze into log files and see messages people send. Of course that was work and not private life, so there is that great demarcation.
Overall, I am trying to be more outraged because I think I should be, but damn, the media is just sorta lost me. Too many things being labeled a scandal, atrociously lazy reporting allowing whatever statements made by right wing ass hat of the moment to go unchallenged, and dammit if I can’t help but think the AP has a ax to grind.
Between this and the inevitable flow of stupid comments about to commence with the Trayvon Martin trial, we’re in for a fun summer.
Hmm. I lived in Tampa for six years and you could pretty much set your watches by the storms. In by 4:00, out by 4:45, poolside dry by 5:00, just in time for cocktails.
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The Red Pen
@Amir Khalid: I don’t know the policy WRT personal computers. Technically, having leaked information on your computer is a faux pas, even if it came from a newspaper article. Theoretically, you could have your security clearance yanked.
It doesn’t really matter matter, I’d already read the article by the time it was declared off limits.
I was mostly interested in how the Freepers were going to spin it.
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Omnes Omnibus
@Trollhattan: Appolonia and Vanity? I don’t know, but this is worth reading on the topic.
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Violet
@ranchandsyrup: Yeah, that was the really shameful thing. I understand the agents not wanting to advertise that they’d been duped–that’s the kind of thing that can damage their business. But the journalists both had an obligation to do more than Google when they check sources, and to inform their readers they’d made mistakes. It’s their job and they failed to do it.
Imagine just how often that happens. Embarrassed journalists don’t check any sources and sweep failures to report under the rug. I think that’s the real story within the story–the number of journalists that didn’t follow up, check sources or post retractions or explanations. I know the state of our journalism is sad, but it’s still shocking to see it.
Another story within the story is just how simple it is to game the Google search. I know the guy worked hard at it, like a full time job, but he was creating a myth about himself and had to work that hard to do it. Imagine how easy it is to fix a few details about yourself that you’d rather not be public. Can’t be that hard to do and it seems everyone will believe it if it’s on the Google.
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PsiFighter37
@lamh35: He was also suspended for steroid use previously, so I pretty much will discount anything Gatlin does from hereon out.
Anyways, thank god it’s Thursday. It’s June, summertime is beginning, the annual BBQ bash in NYC is happening a couple blocks from where I live…life is good. It’ll be even better once I start getting my vacation on in about a month or so.
@lamh35: It sure wasn’t the acting. I thought Purple Rain was one of the worst B-movies I’d ever seen. It was like the rock version of a spaghetti western.
Having it filmed in my hometown at locations I’m familiar with may have made it worse. I always loved the scene where Prince runs off stage and down through a labyrinth of corridors and dressing rooms. The reality is that if you ran off stage like that at First Avenue, you’d splat yourself against the dressing room’s back wall in 2 seconds.
Oh my yes. Not in Alexander, that hair was too much. I saw him on Ellen one day talking about carrot cake (of all things) and I was smirking in the studio all afternoon saying caaar ott cake and giggling to myself over it. Now that’s sexy.
@ranchandsyrup: Sheila E. Hands down. Maybe Jill Jones.
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Ultraviolet Thunder
Angry. Just spent 1 hour going through exhaustive ‘security’ scrutiny to leave a customer site.
One more thing about this customer: today they installed safety railings on a high work platform where my work was. I’d been complaining about the danger of a fall for 4 days. Yesterday they had a death from a fall in a nearby work area. Coincidence?
Security for them: 100%. Security for you: What’s that?
@Omnes Omnibus: First Avenue’s main room is pretty big (I think capacity is about 1,200) and the stage is really roomy, but the single dressing room isn’t any bigger than a child’s bedroom.
@Omnes Omnibus: Was looking her up as I am rather unfamiliar. Why didn’t I know about her? She is lovely. Thanks Omnes.
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gbear
@Omnes Omnibus: Cool. I used to hang around the place a lot at the same time, but I never saw Prince play there. Do you remember a band called Fine Art? With a drummer who’d make you want to run up to him and shout ‘You look just like the drummer from Cheap Trick!!’
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Omnes Omnibus
@ranchandsyrup: Jill Jones never got the promotion the other Prince girls got. I think she had the best voice of any of them.
@gbear: I wasn’t there that often. I was more of a Milwaukee and Chicago person when getting away from college.
lamh35
Winding down my off day and just catching up on stuff.
Here’s some interesting sports news for fan of USA Track & Field (one of the few sports I do like to follow sometimes even in a non-Olympic year)
Justin Gatlin edges Usain Bolt by 0.01 seconds in Rome 100
dewzke
Going back to school soon and I tested out of four classes! I actually kicked the tests in the keister! Counselor gave me a high five that was so loud! I haven’t taken a class in 15 years.
Violet
Avoiding doing some health insurance paperwork. It’s not hard, just tedious. I don’t want to do it. I’m lethargic because it’s gone hot all of a sudden. Just feel like lounging about, maybe near a pool.
ranchandsyrup
Interesting piece about a kid who loved baseball and himself so much he successfully manufactured a story of him being a top pro prospect that was picked up by the scouting community. Couldn’t play at all. Sad and weird. http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/6/6/4392208/montaous-walton-profile-fake-online-prospect
Trollhattan
@lamh35:
Very cool; we haven’t had a dominant US sprinter in awhile. Maybe the rivalry will heat up (although Bolt always seems to have another gear in the big meets).
Sigh, still mad at
EugeneNike for swiping the Olympic T&F trials; I miss going.Mustang Bobby
Look! There’s a dead witch under the house and everything’s in color!
dewzke
@Violet: Pool and a cool drink would be nice…although it is raining again for the 10 out of last 12 days…
lamh35
Okay, so here I sit watching Total Recall (the remix) and thinking meh, but I don’t hate it. Is that weird? Maybe it’s cause I heart Colin Ferell, or maybe it’s because of the total girl crush I have on Kate Beckinsale since Underworld. Any movie with Katey B busting heads and kicking names is a goo one in my book.
piratedan
from LGF: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42091_GOP_Rebranding_Watch-_House_Republicans_Vote_to_Deport_DREAMers
The Republican fail parade will continue as planned tyvm
scav
Bother. Been off too busy weeding, cleaning files, tea kettles, etc, to contribute enough here to merit Naughty Munchkin. And it wasn’t even an honor I was even aware I longed for, but am now pining for. drat drat drat.
Winkie, Quadling or Gillikin just won’t do.
The Red Pen
Got an email today at my dot-mil email address informing everyone that stories about the NSA and phone records are based on leaked information and we must not read about it on government computers.
SO NO SPOILERS!
Amir Khalid
@lamh35:
Not to disparage Gatlin’s achievement, but a 0.01s margin of victory suggests he was about 10cm, or 4 inches, ahead of Usain Bolt at the finish line. That must be awfully close to the margin between a barely discernible victory and a dead heat.
lamh35
Now watching Action Jackson. Carl Weathers, Vanity (I still think she and Appolonia are clones), pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone and pre-RWNJ Craig T Nelson. I know most young people probably know Carl from the Happy Gilmore movie, but for me Carl Weathers will ALWAYS be Action Jackson…lol.
Scene nobody ever forgets, “balls in a jar”…if ya seen the movie, ya know what I’m talking about.
Action Jackson
Black Dynamite reminds me alot of the Action Jackson character, except the pimp part…lol.
Amir Khalid
@The Red Pen:
But can your Uncle Sam forbid you to read it on your personally-owned devices?
Corner Stone
@The Red Pen:
You guys have seen EVERYTHING.
The end.
You’re welcome.
gbear
I guessed right that Tom Emmer was going to run for Michele Bachmann’s seat. He’s far less entertaining than Bachmann, but his ideas are just as bad. We were SO damned lucky that he didn’t become governor.
It’s been cloudy, rainy and in the 50’s all week in the Twin Cities. It’s getting kind of depressing that after the six months of winter that we’ve only had about a half-dozen warm days.
red dog
On the bright side, maybe all this snooping by the Feds and Verizon will make snail mail more attractive and the Post Office profitable.
Schlemizel
I never spent much time on the West coast there but over to your right we used to get huge rain storms nearly every day from March to November. is that unusual on th Gulf side?
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh35: How could you possibly think Vanity and Appolonia were clones? IIRC Vanity had much more of a heart shaped face. Yeah, I noticed their faces too.
MikeJ
@Amir Khalid:
Better to be 10cm ahead than 10cm behind.
Schlemizel
@gbear:
He is an evil, little, man a perfect replacement for ol batshit. Had he won the gov race we would have the same disaster as the cheese-wiz next door.
I’m sure this shitty weather is 25% responsible for my current mood.
WereBear
@lamh35: I’ll see your Action Jackson (I do love that movie!) and raise you a Dolemite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkjExJqf34o
lamh35
@Omnes Omnibus: I wouldn’t know too busy noticing that both just love showing their boobies back in the day. I swear I think I saw Vanity’s nipples more than my own back in th 80’s…lol
Oh and I can tell em apart, but I swear back in the da I had to give myself the inner…purple rain appolonia, singer Vanity, but wait, Appolinia sang and Vanity acted…
maya
Well. After all that has transpired, OBushma is the penultimate naughty Munchkin.I will never vote for him again.
Schlemizel
@Mustang Bobby:
When I was a kid CBS showed Oz once a year & it was a special treat to be allowed to watch on the old black & white. About 1971 or 72 there was a showing of the actual film on the MN campus so I went over there with some friends & when Dorothy opens the door in OZ & steps out I was shocked! Involuntarily I said out loud “Oh my god, its in color!” much to the amusment of everyone else there who apparently had color TVs at home
Violet
@ranchandsyrup: Wow, what a crazy story. Kind of reminds me of the “Catch Me If You Can” kid. Seems like he could take that talent for deceit and turn it to good somehow. Not everyone could pull that off.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh35: Believe me, I noticed the other parts as well; it’s just that I am enough of a gentleman that I noticed their faces too. I think they were both taller than Prince.
ranchandsyrup
@Violet: At the end he says he wants to be a sports journo so maybe the deceit will come in handy? It’s crazy how few people did their diligence in that story. Growing pains with the intertrons I suppose. Have a good night Violet.
dewzke
@Corner Stone: What are we (as readers of this comment of yours) supposed to be thankful for?
Trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
Anyone older than twelve not taller than Prince?
Felanius Kootea
Apologies if someone has already posted this but this makes me sick to my stomach:
Jury Acquits Texas Man For Murder Of Escort Who Refused Sex
Basically Texas law allows you to kill someone who steals property from you at night and walk away. Stealing property at night includes an escort taking $150 from a client and then refusing to have sex. I haven’t seen anyone talk about the fact that paying someone to have sex is also illegal in Texas and it doesn’t seem that he is going to be prosecuted for that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Trollhattan:
I wasn’t suggesting it was a great accomplishment. And, to answer your question, Mary Lou Retton.
Violet
@ranchandsyrup: But it was 2009 at the height of the story. It’s not like it was 1994 and “Growing pains with the intertrons” might be a more reasonable excuse. People know how this stuff works now. Or they should.
The scary bit is how few so-called journalists did any checking of sources. And when they discovered they’d been had, it seems they just pulled the stories instead of printing retractions (one did print a retraction). The state of journalism is sorry.
I hope he can figure out how to use his talents for something useful. He’s got skills. Just not sure how he can use them.
Betty Cracker
@Schlemizel: Not unusual at all; you can practically set your watch by the afternoon thunderstorms, which are the only things that make summer bearable. But the wind and rain today weren’t typical.
lamh35
@Omnes Omnibus: well as a woman, I’m no gentlemen. Shoot it was all nips with those women…lol
Yatsuno
@Felanius Kootea: So a Texas jury just rewarded a man in the commission of another felony. Stay classy dudes.
Montysano
About a year ago, my job of 21 years came to an end when a giant corporation bought the local theatrical lighting dealership where I worked, and promptly disappeared it. I thought I had landed on my feet by getting a really good paying job in the commercial lighting business, but it’s the nastiest, ugliest, most corrupt, vicious and unethical business imaginable. So here I am at 59 years old, looking for an exit strategy. Mrs. Monty and I are seriously considering selling our house and using our considerable equity to buy some acreage here in north Alabama. I’ve had enough of Thunderdome.
Trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
“Energize me!”
But…they ever on stage together? I’m curious now.
ranchandsyrup
@Violet: A fair point re: 1994 v. 2009. I was (inartfully) trying to get at the point that googling someone isn’t enough diligence. The kid gamed the google results.
Another weird point about these sorts of fraud stories–the people that get fooled (the agents, journalists and coaches in this story) are embarrassed enough not to out the guy.
Jay S
speaking of Angry Birds.the headline writer is crowing here.
Cassidy
@lamh35: Predator
Violet
@Betty Cracker: Re: your earlier thread, wanted to say I know the eggs from your lovely hens are as Monsanto-free as you can possibly make them! There’s nothing like fresh eggs from free-ranging hens. Yum!
cathyx
Prince is 5’2″ tall.
Hal
@lamh35:
pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone
Amazing how many horrible movies Sharon Stone made before and after Basic Instinct, but in that one moment, she made a greatly entertaining film. I still like to watch it on cable and netflix.
As for the NSA story, I’m still very meh. I think legit questions need to be asked about the scope of Govenment power, but I’ve long assumed anything I post online or send via text etc wasn’t irrevocably private.
Hell, at my old IT job I was in charge of the email servers and I could easily gaze into log files and see messages people send. Of course that was work and not private life, so there is that great demarcation.
Overall, I am trying to be more outraged because I think I should be, but damn, the media is just sorta lost me. Too many things being labeled a scandal, atrociously lazy reporting allowing whatever statements made by right wing ass hat of the moment to go unchallenged, and dammit if I can’t help but think the AP has a ax to grind.
Between this and the inevitable flow of stupid comments about to commence with the Trayvon Martin trial, we’re in for a fun summer.
SiubhanDuinne
@Schlemizel:
Hmm. I lived in Tampa for six years and you could pretty much set your watches by the storms. In by 4:00, out by 4:45, poolside dry by 5:00, just in time for cocktails.
The Red Pen
@Amir Khalid: I don’t know the policy WRT personal computers. Technically, having leaked information on your computer is a faux pas, even if it came from a newspaper article. Theoretically, you could have your security clearance yanked.
It doesn’t really matter matter, I’d already read the article by the time it was declared off limits.
I was mostly interested in how the Freepers were going to spin it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Trollhattan: Appolonia and Vanity? I don’t know, but this is worth reading on the topic.
Violet
@ranchandsyrup: Yeah, that was the really shameful thing. I understand the agents not wanting to advertise that they’d been duped–that’s the kind of thing that can damage their business. But the journalists both had an obligation to do more than Google when they check sources, and to inform their readers they’d made mistakes. It’s their job and they failed to do it.
Imagine just how often that happens. Embarrassed journalists don’t check any sources and sweep failures to report under the rug. I think that’s the real story within the story–the number of journalists that didn’t follow up, check sources or post retractions or explanations. I know the state of our journalism is sad, but it’s still shocking to see it.
Another story within the story is just how simple it is to game the Google search. I know the guy worked hard at it, like a full time job, but he was creating a myth about himself and had to work that hard to do it. Imagine how easy it is to fix a few details about yourself that you’d rather not be public. Can’t be that hard to do and it seems everyone will believe it if it’s on the Google.
PsiFighter37
@lamh35: He was also suspended for steroid use previously, so I pretty much will discount anything Gatlin does from hereon out.
Anyways, thank god it’s Thursday. It’s June, summertime is beginning, the annual BBQ bash in NYC is happening a couple blocks from where I live…life is good. It’ll be even better once I start getting my vacation on in about a month or so.
Todd
@Felanius Kootea:
It didnt get a lot of play on the last thread because that was a firebagger den.
Here was the gawker article.
http://gawker.com/texas-says-its-ok-to-shoot-an-escort-if-she-wont-have-511636423?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=afternoon
gbear
@lamh35: It sure wasn’t the acting. I thought Purple Rain was one of the worst B-movies I’d ever seen. It was like the rock version of a spaghetti western.
Having it filmed in my hometown at locations I’m familiar with may have made it worse. I always loved the scene where Prince runs off stage and down through a labyrinth of corridors and dressing rooms. The reality is that if you ran off stage like that at First Avenue, you’d splat yourself against the dressing room’s back wall in 2 seconds.
muddy
@lamh35:
Oh my yes. Not in Alexander, that hair was too much. I saw him on Ellen one day talking about carrot cake (of all things) and I was smirking in the studio all afternoon saying caaar ott cake and giggling to myself over it. Now that’s sexy.
Omnes Omnibus
@gbear: First Avenue seemed huge in that movie.
ranchandsyrup
@Omnes Omnibus: @Trollhattan: Carmen Electra is my preference of the Prince mentees. /Ducks/
Omnes Omnibus
@ranchandsyrup: Sheila E. Hands down. Maybe Jill Jones.
Ultraviolet Thunder
Angry. Just spent 1 hour going through exhaustive ‘security’ scrutiny to leave a customer site.
One more thing about this customer: today they installed safety railings on a high work platform where my work was. I’d been complaining about the danger of a fall for 4 days. Yesterday they had a death from a fall in a nearby work area. Coincidence?
Security for them: 100%. Security for you: What’s that?
I cannot name this client for obvious reasons.
ranchandsyrup
@Omnes Omnibus: Shiela E is a good one. She had nice arms from teh drumming.
Carmen should really be disqualified from consideration due to Dennis Rodman marriage anyway.
lamh35
OMG! Who doesn’t remember this episode of Saved By The Bell. All that over caffeine pills. Shoot kids today be drinking down 5 Hour Energy shots.
http://youtu.be/bflYjF90t7c
gbear
@Omnes Omnibus: First Avenue’s main room is pretty big (I think capacity is about 1,200) and the stage is really roomy, but the single dressing room isn’t any bigger than a child’s bedroom.
Omnes Omnibus
@ranchandsyrup: Jill Jones.
Omnes Omnibus
@gbear: I saw Prince there a couple of times back in the early to mid 80s.
ranchandsyrup
@Omnes Omnibus: Was looking her up as I am rather unfamiliar. Why didn’t I know about her? She is lovely. Thanks Omnes.
gbear
@Omnes Omnibus: Cool. I used to hang around the place a lot at the same time, but I never saw Prince play there. Do you remember a band called Fine Art? With a drummer who’d make you want to run up to him and shout ‘You look just like the drummer from Cheap Trick!!’
Omnes Omnibus
@ranchandsyrup: Jill Jones never got the promotion the other Prince girls got. I think she had the best voice of any of them.
@gbear: I wasn’t there that often. I was more of a Milwaukee and Chicago person when getting away from college.
ETA: A dude who looked like Bun E. Carlos?
daverave
@Trollhattan:
yeah me too, those events were kind of magical in a way (except for that whole Marion Jones saga)
gbear
@Omnes Omnibus: I got so sick of hearing it I grew a beard. Then Bun E. Carlos grew a beard so now I still look like him.
Omnes Omnibus
@gbear: Go with a Fu Manchu.
Mnemosyne
Still at work. Leaving soon. Thinking about stopping off to buy some yarn on the way home since G is up in Ventura and won’t be home until later.