His monologue about Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith and his own past as an alcoholic is the first talk show monologue that had me crying. In fact, I have it favorited (is that a word?) on youtube and I cry everytime I see it. "Just, let me go, Tommy..."
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I never got this expression (not crop-dusting). I know that it doesn't suggest that other countries don't eat and revere apple pie because obviously they do. Apple pie is a pretty national dish of England and the Netherlands, to name a couple. I just don't understand what it IS about apple pie that Americans feel to be American at all? Is there some kind of metaphor to it?
"The expression "as American as apple pie" wasn't the product of an overzealous imagination. Apple dishes of one kind or another could be found at practically every colonial meal, especially in New England. The apple was made into pies and fritters and puddings and slumps, literally a host of dishes. The colonists had inherited some of their taste for apples from the British along with many of the British recipes, but many other dishes were the products of American invention."
---Apples: History, Folklore, Horticulture, and Gastronomy, Peter Wynne [Hawthorn:New York] 1975 (p. 24)
"When you say that something is "as American as apple pie," what you're really saying is that the item came to this country from elsewhere and was transformed into a distinctly American experience."
---As American as Apple Pie, John Lehndorff, American Pie Council.
Heather Thompson doesn't seem to understand the word trophy wife. Just being married to a rich man doesn't make you a trophy wife, I don't think anyone has ever called Melinda Gates a trophy wife. A trophy wife is a woman a rich man married soley for her looks.
Wow. Every story I've read about a celeb making a donation to a cause over the last few weeks have had some people crying "not enough", "vanity project". Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don't. Maybe sometimes, the agenda is just to help people?
I'm pretty sure those getting the funds are appreciative of both the money and that others care enough to do so, and could care less about the motivations behind the donations.
And really, before you start complaining about someone giving "only" $500,000, you should ask yourself what you're doing to try to help those who are not so fortunate as yourself. If you're not making some attempt to make a differnece, I don't think you should be wanking on those who are.
I just loooove how Hulk Hogan keeps going on and on about how evil his ex and her younger boyfriend are...while conveniently ignoring the fact that he is paying his own much younger girlfriend $4,000 a month to be his "personal assistant." Duties include shaving his back.
I met him once, at the Atlanta Airport. I was pretty taken aback not only by how tall he is, but by the fact that he was oiled (in a suit!) and sporting a spray-on beard - seriously. Up close, it's totally just paint.
This was like, 7 years ago, so I can't imagine, don't WANT to imagine, what he looks like up close and personal now.
When I was a kid he was one of my heroes. Now he's just a schmuck.
@poires et poireaux: My hairdresser does her hair so I was roped into helping at the show and I can see how she would have been an amazing teacher, she was so calm and nice! Even when bathed in sweat and make-up. Still totally awesome though.
Can someone please explain to me why celebrities seem to have so much trouble with using teh interwebz? It seems to be an epidemic of some sort, not knowing how to use email, or understand social networking. Anyone would think it was the 1990's!
@cuteasabutton is cynical and sarcastical.: I'm guessing there'd be some hesitation because they'd find crazy bad gossip about themselves somewhere. Or perhaps, they're just really really busy. I dunno.
@cuteasabutton is cynical and sarcastical.: I'm guessing it's because they don't have to spend seven hours a day sitting on a slightly off balanced, decades old "ergonomic" office chair in front of a too bright computer monitor trying to distract themselves from their barely above minimum wage, utterly tedious and soul crushingly, bone achingly, just plain sadistically dull job. But that's just one optimist's opinion. :)
@poires et poireaux: I can understand that. And perhaps too busy. But it just seems weird! @HarpMadness: Well my Mum seems to have a better grasp of it than they do and that's saying something! Love ya Mum! @kontrolle: True that! But they are all smart people supposedly, and have interest in current technologies and blackberry's etc. I don't understand it, but whatevs makes them happy!
I know it is a typo, but the item about Rudy's reality show with her "live-on" boyfriend made me giggle. I picture a wee little Rudy, sleeping in his pocket and riding around on his shoulder. Like Sophie with the BFG, I guess.
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I never got this expression (not crop-dusting). I know that it doesn't suggest that other countries don't eat and revere apple pie because obviously they do. Apple pie is a pretty national dish of England and the Netherlands, to name a couple. I just don't understand what it IS about apple pie that Americans feel to be American at all? Is there some kind of metaphor to it?
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"The expression "as American as apple pie" wasn't the product of an overzealous imagination. Apple dishes of one kind or another could be found at practically every colonial meal, especially in New England. The apple was made into pies and fritters and puddings and slumps, literally a host of dishes. The colonists had inherited some of their taste for apples from the British along with many of the British recipes, but many other dishes were the products of American invention."
---Apples: History, Folklore, Horticulture, and Gastronomy, Peter Wynne [Hawthorn:New York] 1975 (p. 24)
"When you say that something is "as American as apple pie," what you're really saying is that the item came to this country from elsewhere and was transformed into a distinctly American experience."
---As American as Apple Pie, John Lehndorff, American Pie Council.
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I'm pretty sure those getting the funds are appreciative of both the money and that others care enough to do so, and could care less about the motivations behind the donations.
And really, before you start complaining about someone giving "only" $500,000, you should ask yourself what you're doing to try to help those who are not so fortunate as yourself. If you're not making some attempt to make a differnece, I don't think you should be wanking on those who are.
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I met him once, at the Atlanta Airport. I was pretty taken aback not only by how tall he is, but by the fact that he was oiled (in a suit!) and sporting a spray-on beard - seriously. Up close, it's totally just paint.
This was like, 7 years ago, so I can't imagine, don't WANT to imagine, what he looks like up close and personal now.
When I was a kid he was one of my heroes. Now he's just a schmuck.
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@HarpMadness: Well my Mum seems to have a better grasp of it than they do and that's saying something! Love ya Mum!
@kontrolle: True that! But they are all smart people supposedly, and have interest in current technologies and blackberry's etc.
I don't understand it, but whatevs makes them happy!
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I would watch that show.