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Some Days, You Gotta Laugh...
Oct. 8th, 2010 10:08 amGo on... watch all nine minutes of this... just to see if it changes. I dare you. I double dare you!!
Oct. 8th, 2010
Go on... watch all nine minutes of this... just to see if it changes. I dare you. I double dare you!!
Commonwealth (Indoor) Games Update
Oct. 8th, 2010 03:50 pmNo, this isn't a rant about shoddy workmanship, shoddy adjudication or refereeing, nor a jingoistic biased rant about how "our" Aussie athletes are being ripped off in every event they compete in...
No ~ it's just an opportunity to point out that this story has surfaced at every Commonwealth, Olympic, or World Championship Games I can remember for at least the last 12 years... the 'facts' always the same, only the location changes.
Kind of like the 'rumour' about whichever latest gay, supposedly gay, or suitably 'loose-moralled' pop star being taken to hospital, complaining of stomach pain after spending time in the 'private room' of some suitably seedy nightclub, having their stomach pumped & the supposed 'viscous liquid' contents being measured in quarts/pints/litres. I first heard that one back in '82 when the 'subject' was Marc Almond of Soft Cell. Change the name to Boy George/Madonna/Ricky Martin/George Michael/Britney/Christina Aguilera/Lady GaGa... etc & you have a 'reliable', ready & willing story to release to the world any way you like ~ TwitterBookLiveSpace or just on any public forum, preferably one on a tabloid news site.
The same goes for the one with hotel guests complaining about (s)excessive noise from a particular suite & a less-than-discreet desk clerk confiding that, yes, there had been numerous complaints about the noise coming from "Insert Popular Icon's Name Here"'s room for a few nights now...
Why let the truth get in the way of a goodComplete & Utter Falsehood story??
No ~ it's just an opportunity to point out that this story has surfaced at every Commonwealth, Olympic, or World Championship Games I can remember for at least the last 12 years... the 'facts' always the same, only the location changes.
Kind of like the 'rumour' about whichever latest gay, supposedly gay, or suitably 'loose-moralled' pop star being taken to hospital, complaining of stomach pain after spending time in the 'private room' of some suitably seedy nightclub, having their stomach pumped & the supposed 'viscous liquid' contents being measured in quarts/pints/litres. I first heard that one back in '82 when the 'subject' was Marc Almond of Soft Cell. Change the name to Boy George/Madonna/Ricky Martin/George Michael/Britney/Christina Aguilera/Lady GaGa... etc & you have a 'reliable', ready & willing story to release to the world any way you like ~ TwitterBookLiveSpace or just on any public forum, preferably one on a tabloid news site.
The same goes for the one with hotel guests complaining about (s)excessive noise from a particular suite & a less-than-discreet desk clerk confiding that, yes, there had been numerous complaints about the noise coming from "Insert Popular Icon's Name Here"'s room for a few nights now...
Why let the truth get in the way of a good
