The revival of the crush list, June, '03
 

So who's the chick with the bad wig?

for love or money
 

I missed all but the last half hour when he was deciding the keepers and the leavers. It was almost painful to watch him talk to them and the wet slicked back hair look is so gag. His bio says he worked in NYC after his JAG stint but got laid off after 9/11. Wonder what he did in NY.

I agree. And from what I saw this guy isn't brimming with charisma so it wouldn't be a tough choice.

I missed seeing the women do anything more than react to being picked or dumped. One dumpee was crying -- she must have really wanted the dough. The guy said something to the 21 year old about her ring and her stand on something. What's the deal with that?

for love or money
 

I'm embarrassed to know this, but that's the 21 year old chick, who is a very, very young 21, and is "in awe" of the bachelor. On her left ring finger she wears a "promise ring" that she "gave to herself" which sort of represents a vow of "celibacy." So, he thinks she's a virgin, but, she assures us, she's not. She did not get a chance to explain fully, because he got to talk to each of them for 2 minutes at a group lunch the day before he dumped/picked them.

The 21 year old has daddy issues, or is afraid of her burgeoning sexuality, or does not want to grow up or something. She is always asking the bachelor to hug her. She's gonna get her little heart squished.

Oy, vey!
 

Now he tells me.

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Son of a . . . . I think I was wearing that same ring all through high school and didn't even know it. Thank God it got bitten off when it did.

A(ringwraith)G

"petty and childish"
 

Apparently, the editors at American Lawyer see our problems with West's censorship policy as "petty and childish".

Their article focused solely on West's policy of censoring "dirty words" yet completely ignored their new policy of censoring substantive material at will.

If taken to its logical conclusion, the censoring of unflattering, yet truthful, information about law firms will clearly put an end to the free flow of information available to associates and usurp the original intent of these types of Boards.

Which begs the question - did they unintentionally disregard this important concept, or do they really think that our concerns for law firm transparancy are "petty and childish".

One would think that members of the press would hold a higher regard for freedom of information and the freedom the press.

John Peter Zenger be damned.

not7yS

For Love or Money website
 

OK, I looked. The bios of the girls are always entertaining. Most unintentionally funny line, from Kelly, the fast living bad girl (wannabe):

What three people would you combine to create your ideal mate?

John F. Kennedy for his brains; Ben Affleck for his charm; and Ralph Lauren for his style.

For his brains? Couldn't she have said intelligence? Or was she making a punny?

This is from Cristy, who resembles Rene Russo on heroin (and was dumped right quick):

Which would you choose: A wealthy husband or a poor soul mate?

A poor soul mate; for the total utility of finding your true soul mate is priceless. Unless your soul mate is already someone's wealthy husband then your in big trouble!

And not to be catty, but I think Erin from SF, while gorgeous, has had some work done. Definitely collagen lips and botox, at least. And she's only 30!

The revival of the crush list, June, '03
 

Maude Lebowski. Isnt she how you picture me?

Women Wearing Pants
 

are the cause of all society's ills:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa...eut/index.html

I knew I could've prevented the war and fixed the economy if only I wore skirts...

for love or money
 

So she's a celibate nonvirgin???

I really thought he was going to dump her. He kept talking about her age and from the context I wondered if the ring was a promise ring. I thought someone with a vow of celibacy would be the kiss of death for any reality TV dating show but his bio says he went to a Baptist high school so maybe he doesn't think it's a problem.

I hope the money incentive really brings the claws out for this show. The bachelor seems like a dork so the only reason to watch will be to see to what lengths the women will go to win.

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Have any of you seen Christie Whats-her-face, who used to go on Politically Incorrect all the time. She is a cute 20 something former slut who is born again and now preaches abstinence to college kids in some kind Christian youth group. She always tells about how she would party and wake up in some guy's room who she didn't know (probably with no underwear), but now she is a born-again virgin and will wait till she is married to have sex again.

It's one thing to wait till marriage if your fiancee is a virgin, but if you are the only guy in town who hasn't slept with her, and she makes you buy an engagement ring and pay for a wedding to "hit the skins" with her--when everyone else you know got to do it for the price of a pitcher of coors lite--then you deserve to be married to someone like her.

for love or money
 

How coincidental that the final two were the "nice" girl and the drunken wench that ruined her painting.

And you can already see where this trainwreck is going from the preview of next week.

He going to act like a revolting, boorish lout to all the women - and, in an attempt to win the money, they will put up with his increasingly disgusting behavior - smiling like a Cheshire - and pretend to "love" him.

Did any of us ever think that the suits at NBC would say one day - hey, that FOX has some spectacular programming. Let's copy their 2 biggest shows.

not7yS

for love or money
 

Nevermind. She is Christine O'Donnell and her wacko Group is SALT

http://www.thesalt.org/gallery_page.htm

Shock the monkey, or I'm shocked to find gambling going on at this casino.
 

While in a conversation with plaintiff's counsel (I have had cases opposing this guy for years) during a break in a deposition for one of my slip and fall cases, I made some positive remark about President Clinton, which shocked the guy. "Not Bob, you're a ... a ... Democrat?" he said in a voice mixed with equal parts horror and pity*. "I never would have guessed it!" he concluded.

That got me wondering about the sorts of things that seem to shock people. People were shocked when I went to a costume party as a flapper, accompanied by my gangster wife. Guys dressed in drag for Halloween are pretty white bread, even here, yet it shocked people who know me. I'm not sure why.

So, it shocks people that: (1) I am Not Republican; (2) have dressed as a flapper; (3) eat pork; (4) like angst-ridden chick music of a type usually favored by granola-crunching lesbians; (5) shot a man in Reno just to watch him die; and (6) had a crush on that summer clerk from Harvard last year who ended up working as a mechanic at Big Ed's Fina station.

The shock thing obviously varies by person -- the same people who were shocked about me as a flapper didn't bat an eye when Big Ed dressed as Morticia Adams. And the lawyer shocked that I was a Dem, Dem, Democrat! naturally assumes that Judge Johnson -- who looks and acts like William Rehnquist -- is going to rule in his favor at the summary judgment hearing because he was appointed to the bench by a liberal Democratic governor in 1979.

Anyway, what have you done or said lately that has shocked people?


*Podunkville is located in a red state, after all.

convenient tropes
 

I considered the article's focus on obscenity as a rhetorical stand-in for West-objectionable content generally. Thus, it was synecdoche, a species of trope. (It will certainly not escape your keen notice, dear heart, that "potty mouth" is itself synecdoche.)

BTW, while I recognize this does not bear much further discussion, it occurs to me that my theory that the article was hacked from a longer, more in-depth piece may be supported by Leagl's experience that they would not publish a pseudonymous letter. The writer might have decided (or been told) that she could republish posts, but not publish any other quotes under pseudonym. Journalistic integrity would have then dictated that there was no story worth telling, but it would explain why she spent so much time in interviews when the finished product was so horribly lopsided and easy to write.