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PresentTense Pirate Penske · 10-02-2009, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

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I'd tap dat........

What do I win?

eta: to clarificate, I meant I'd tap Mariah, and not that I would tap either of Fifty Cent nor Drake.......when did they become stage hands for Mariah?

bold_n_brazen · 10-02-2009, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Babe, this is for the Olympics. It's a different kind of hand ball.

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I think Michelle Obama is lovely, but this photo makes her forehead look ridiculously large.

Atticus Grinch · 10-02-2009, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by LessinSF

I think the distinction between a favela and the slums of any other major world city is the total lawlessness. There are favelas where the police won't go. They shoot at suspects from attack helicopters. That bears repeating: the police shoot at their citizens from fucking attack helicopters. That shit is on YouTube. Perhaps Brazil is caught in the Catch-22 of being just third world enough for shit like that, and just first world enough for people to know about it. But goddamn. They're going to put the Olympics in a world-class resort city where much of the population is so poor and deperate that the government has resorted to treating them like animals on safari. That's sobering, and it somehow makes China's human rights abuses seem like only one of several possible types of dehumanization.

Atticus Grinch · 10-02-2009, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

"Keep pushing, boys, there's gotta be another album somewhere up there."

LessinSF · 10-02-2009, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I think the distinction between a favela and the slums of any other major world city is the total lawlessness. There are favelas where the police won't go. They shoot at suspects from attack helicopters. That bears repeating: the police shoot at their citizens from fucking attack helicopters. That shit is on YouTube. Perhaps Brazil is caught in the Catch-22 of being just third world enough for shit like that, and just first world enough for people to know about it. But goddamn. They're going to put the Olympics in a world-class resort city where much of the population is so poor and deperate that the government has resorted to treating them like animals on safari. That's sobering, and it somehow makes China's human rights abuses seem like only one of several possible types of dehumanization.

And where robberies of tourists are so rampant that people are advised not to walk at night. Anywhere. Even around the nice hotels. Or maybe especially around them.

Hank Chinaski · 10-02-2009, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

There are favelas where the police won't go. They shoot at suspects from attack helicopters. That bears repeating: the police shoot at their citizens from fucking attack helicopters. That shit is on YouTube.

oan, has anyone heard what events will be introduced at the rio games?

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-02-2009, 08:24 PM

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They shoot at suspects from attack helicopters.

It's time to start RUNNING!

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-02-2009, 09:12 PM

I love this story, and -- look! -- it's on the interwebs!

Peter Bogdanovich:

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My own favorite memory of Hitchcock comes from an incident at the St. Regis Hotel in New York in 1964. After some frozen daiquiris had left me a bit tipsy and Hitch quite red-faced and cheerful, we got on the elevator at the 25th floor and rode in silence to the 19th, where, when three people dressed for the evening entered, he suddenly turned to me and said, ''Well, it was quite shocking, I must say there was blood everywhere!'' I was confused, thinking that because of the daiquiris I'd missed something, but he just went right on: ''There was a stream of blood coming from his ear and another from his mouth.'' Of course, everyone in the elevator had recognized him but no one looked over. Two more people from the 19th floor entered as he continued: ''Of course, there was a huge pool of blood on the floor and his clothes were splattered with it. Oh! It was a horrible mess. Well, you can imagine . . . '' It felt as if no one in the elevator, including me, was breathing. He now glanced at me, I nodded dumbly, and he resumed: ''Blood all around! Well, I looked at the poor fellow and I said, 'Good God, man, what's happened to you?'' And then, just as the elevator doors opened onto the lobby, Hitchcock said, ''And do you know what he told me?'' and paused. With reluctance, the passengers now all moved out of the elevator and looked anxiously at the director as we passed them in silence. After a few foggy moments, I asked, ''So what did he say?'' And Hitch smiled beatifically and answered, ''Oh, nothing -- that's just my elevator story.''