[BC] News in the 21st Century

[Rich Wood]

------ At 03:01 PM 4/8/2008, Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote: -------

>When one addresses a superior, one must be
>respectful of the spelling and pronunciation of
>their name, preferred hail and other mannerisms.
>For example, Dr. Laura: Tom, welcome to the program!
>Tom: Hello Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call. I
>am my mother's son.
>
>Or: Thank you Mistress Helga. May I please have another?

Honestly, I have trouble telling the two apart.

>It was Naomi Campbell who threw the fit. Twice, as a
>matter of fact on two different flights.

Yes. That's the name I was grasping for.

>Intellectuality has
>many forms. If one equates the intellect with success, as
>in the case of Bill Gates it may come without formal
>documents (i.e. a degree from Harvard). In Ms. Campbell's
>case she earned $300,000 for wearing certain garments on
>her walks of ingress and egress to/from her community service
>in a New York City Department of Sanitation depot.

I seem to recall that Paris did the same with her own line of 
clothing. I learned of that watching a "serious" newscast on NBC. I 
believe that sanitation depot is on the banks of the Hudson, just up 
the street from my former apartment on the West Side Highway. Surely 
this is a first. I've never seen a $300,000 outfit anywhere near that 
depot unless it was driving by on the Highway. I wonder why a judge 
chose to punish hard working sanitation men that severely.

>The other day she even read a letter from two gay male partners. This,
>after publicly apologizing for her anti-gay stance on the
>Jewish High Holy Day of atonement a few years ago. Class.

I wonder why she wasn't fired or suspended as so many others have 
been. I wonder why Michael Savage hasn't gotten the Imus treatment 
for his homophobic remarks. Oops. She owns the company.

>All the paparazzi want is to leech off the success they have
>not earned themselves. I don't know which is worse, the
>camera hounds or hordes of screaming teenage girls
>chasing me around.

If the girls are under 17 you'll be much safer with the camera 
hounds. You're much too harsh on the Paparazzi. They're searching for 
that one, elusive, photo that will immortalize a superstar. Just 
think of them as the Promotion Department. If they disappeared 
tomorrow the cost of being a celebrity would rise significantly. 
They're just doing their jobs.

Rich