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mattchew03
01:28 PM

In reply to Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter
Am I the only one that still hasn't seen the RT button show up? Someone said it was next to the reply button that one sees when he/she scrolls over a tweet in his/her feed, but I've not come across it. #twitter
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themediatrix
10/30/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
I booked her for a show I worked on back when she was campaigning against Arnold in California a few years back and let me tell you, she is incredible looking.

Great body, very at ease with herself, and appropriately made up. I never cared about her until I met her, but when I did she made a great impression and was truly beautiful in person.

She is also warm, funny and smells good (no lie). If she has some wrinkles and doesn't look like a twenty year old, that's because she's *not* twenty.

I took a look at the Wintour photos, and hey, she looks great too! More power to these women for aging naturally and gracefully.

What is the problem here? If we published a high res photo of yours or anyone's skin, would that "ruin my lunch" too? Kind of weird that you think it's an insult to publish a pic that shows a woman as she really looks. Isn't the constant airbrushing more of an insult?
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intime
10/30/09

In reply to What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
She looks like a "woman of a certain age." She hasn't tried to stop anyone from publishing these photos of herself, un-retouched. And don't we all want to know what Wintour and Lohan really look like????

Isn't that a given???

And couldn't most of us care less what Ariana looks like?

She's not making her living off a business that emphasizes good looks. #ariannahuffington
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BunnySkull
10/30/09

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I encourage this but not for snarky reasons. I think people need to see "real" photos. It's the fake, air-brushed to hell and back, plastic looking photos that cause all the trouble. Normal people look at them, many don't realize its no where near reality, and think somehow they are supposed to look that way in real life - its absurd and totally unrealistic. People do not look like plastic dolls in real life. The public shouldn't suffer from an inferiority complex because they look normal and lack a full-time make-up artist and adobe photoshop magician to doctor their every pore. More than anything its toxic for the kids & teenagers, who really don't comprehend the level of fakery involved in celebrity/model photos, yet have consumed them as reality their entire lives. #ariannahuffington
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sklarra001
10/30/09

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God, I hope I look that good in a close-up at her age. Or my age.
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raincoaster
10/30/09

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If you REALLY wanted to give her a taste of her own medicine, you'd steal a couple of chapters from her book. If there was anything worth stealing. #ariannahuffington
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raincoaster
10/30/09

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Well, as you all know, I'm a raging bitch. And as you may not know, the total number of tweets I've made seems to be going DOWN rather than up lately. I'd hate to be the intern assigned to "cleaning up the raincoaster stream". Augean stables, anyone? #twitter
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JohntheCraptist
10/29/09

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When I met her, one of her eyelashes had detached itself and was jutting at a 45-degree angle from her eyelid. Truth. #ariannahuffington
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RandomLunatic
10/30/09

@JohntheCraptist: See, that's weird, because when I met her her jaw unhinged and she tried to swallow my dinner companion whole, like a python.

Truth. #ariannahuffington
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Buttafooco
10/29/09

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I saw her getting into taxi in midtown last Friday. I didn't realize her hips were so wide. She was standing behind a Ford Crown Victoria and the brake lights were barely peeking out from the sides of her hip. She seemed to be in good spirits, even if they might charge her ass an EZ Pass fare to cross the midtown tunnel. #ariannahuffington
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MissNormaDesmond
10/29/09

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Shouldn't you have titled this "Neener Neener"? #ariannahuffington
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TheBusinessGuy
10/29/09

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And this. She does live in the west, right? #ariannahuffington
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Novaload
10/29/09

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I'm glad I'm not famous.
And as for HuffPo, you can hardly find news amongst the butts and boobs and deliberately-selected awful pics of people. Seriously sexist focus. (The Best Boobs--that was worthy of TMZ.) So fair's fair.
I wonder does she shed the facial fuzz in the spring and re-grow it every winter? #ariannahuffington
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Orgasmic-Chemist
10/29/09

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All three of them look amazing to me. I once took a gander into my mothers 5x mirror when I was home last Christmas... woah.... #ariannahuffington
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iplaudius
10/29/09

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I think there is a certain justice in going after people whose celebrity or business depends on Photoshopped images. Huffington’s business does not, so who cares what she looks like? Besides, she looks good! #ariannahuffington
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katekate is squared
10/29/09

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I don't get it. Give her a taste of her own medicine, which we don't agree with, but let's go head and scrutinize her and invalidate our entire point? Is that what you're going for? #ariannahuffington
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lil red
10/29/09

@katekate is squared: Actually, it seems like free publicity (links etc). But since they don't pay anyone-I suppose they are accustomed to freebies. #ariannahuffington
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Ludiollus
10/29/09

@katekate is squared: No, I understand where Ryan is coming from. See, in junior high this one mean girl wrote some terrible stuff about me on a wall in the girl's bathroom. I did not think it was fair to do that sort of thing to anyone, so to pay her back I wrote some terrible stuff about her on a wall in the gym just before the Homecoming pep rally.

The ONLY way to teach people not to do mean things is to do even meaner things to them. If I had the ability to see the future in 7th grade I would have said I "Gawkered" her. #ariannahuffington
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