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    Nat Geo Layoffs

    Swine Flu at the National Geographic Society!

    The National Geographic Host: A Sad, Lovelorn Blind Item

    Layoffs at Mappy National Geographic Include Mapmaker

    "I swear my golden retriever Chaucer said 'hi' to me one morning."

    Paris Hilton Still Rich Source Of Humor At Harvard

    New York Under Yet More Attack From Crappy CGI

    Arnett fired from Nat'l Geographic as well

    NBC fires Peter Arnett

    The blizzard of 1888
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/28/09

    In reply to Nat Geo Layoffs

    Fucking meerkats, taking over. #nationalgeographic
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    10/27/09

    In reply to Nat Geo Layoffs
    National Geograhic Explorer just can't keep up with hobbit-boy narrating some bullshit meerkat soap opera. #nationalgeographic
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    Image of SultanaEleusis SultanaEleusis
    10/27/09

    In reply to Nat Geo Layoffs
    It's just harder and harder to find native women who don't cover their breasts in our modern globalized world...
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    10/27/09

    In reply to Nat Geo Layoffs
    Real reason: The monkeys. #nationalgeographic
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/27/09

    In reply to Nat Geo Layoffs
    There's something about National Geographic that I love - something that the internet and my webtastic tendencies can never replace. #nationalgeographic
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    10/27/09

    @Conchie Birdie: When I was small my great-grandmother got me one of those lifetime subscriptions, and as such it is the only constant between my life at age 8 and me at 23. When I get a new issue, I usually stuff it in my bag with various other reading material, but in the end it is the only thing in there that, once I begin reading it, I have a hard time pulling myself away from. There's something about not leveling your editorials to the playing fields of the cynical and the ironic that really appeals to the more authentic parts of myself. #nationalgeographic
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    10/27/09

    @ampersandparade: Is that subsription based upon your lifetime, your grandmother's lifetime, or the magazine's lifetime? #nationalgeographic
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    10/27/09

    @misslinda: I honestly have no idea how it works, or where I would find out. It just started coming, and has continued ever since. I think it is renewed every decade (although I did not renew it, although someone must have since it has been over fifteen years now), but I really do not know the answer to that.

    I think it was quite cheap back then too, something like $300 dollars. #nationalgeographic
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/27/09

    @ampersandparade: Esquire also used to do lifetime subscriptions--back when it was almost a sure thing that a magazine would survive longer than you would. Also: back when anyone read Esquire. #nationalgeographic
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    Image of Richard Blakeley Richard Blakeley
    10/27/09

    In reply to Nat Geo Layoffs
    Real Reason: "The Internet." #nationalgeographic
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    Image of ShawnP ShawnP
    10/27/09

    @Richard Blakeley: Exactly. When you can see animals naked for free online, why do you need National Geographic? #nationalgeographic
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    07/27/09

    In reply to Swine Flu at the National Geographic Society!
    What a step down for a staff used to contracting malaria, dengue and candiru.
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    Image of RheaPollstry RheaPollstry
    07/27/09

    In reply to Swine Flu at the National Geographic Society!
    On the bright side, this month's issue features extensive photographs of topless native women. You're welcome.
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    Image of downlow downlow
    07/27/09

    @RheaPollstry: I know I'm going to sound naive with this but the Travel Channel last night had a show about this Amazonian tribe that live in the jungle and they were all just nekkid all the time. It was crazy to see it on regular cable TV. Lot's of penii, pubic hair, and pancake titties. I couldn't quit watching it until they started cooking monkey. When the first monkey hit the fire is when I changed the channel.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    07/27/09

    @downlow: I also tend to bail when the monkey hits the fire.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    07/27/09

    In reply to Swine Flu at the National Geographic Society!
    The bigger swine flu news is in Argentina, where there's quite an outbreak at the moment.
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    07/27/09

    @Smitros: I've heard from family in Australia that it's bad there, too (not that we're hearing much about international cases when they don't involve Americans). My bro-in-law is on forced telecommuting (I know, poor him) as are most of the other people he works with.

    Damn southern hemisphere winter, keeping H1N1 alive and kicking.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/27/09

    @kimsama: Ooh, I am sort of looking forward to that forced telecommuting thing. I want my Hazmat-suit jetpack too!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    07/27/09

    @kimsama:

    Didn't know about Australia. Sorry to hear that. I'm looking forward to a little telecommuting, though, with a laptop computer and the Smitrodog on the sofa.
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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    07/27/09

    In reply to Swine Flu at the National Geographic Society!
    Quick everyone! Slaughter all the maps to prevent an outbreak!
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    Image of Charlotte Rae's Web Charlotte Rae's Web
    04/28/09

    In reply to The National Geographic Host: A Sad, Lovelorn Blind Item
    I read Cary stuff only for the letters, I skip the advice... it is over the top and way too long winded.


    This letter is clearly the writer's attempt at dragging him back in for one more round of this. If she was just in pain, she could have skipped the NatGeo stuff ALL together. But she wanted to see how many people she could get involved in this drama.


    I thought her airing that she had an abortion was tacky too - it's a private decision and not really fair to air in public unless you both agree. I suspect she's insanely sad that she didn't keep the baby.

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    Image of Zanybrainy Zanybrainy
    04/28/09

    @Charlotte Rae's Web: She may be sad but there's no suspecting anything about her sanity: she is insane. No question about it.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/28/09

    @Zanybrainy: yeah, that whole letter shrieked, "I'm crazycrazycrazy!" It was actually one of those trainwrecks where yeah, you look away.
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    Image of Looker Looker
    04/28/09

    In reply to The National Geographic Host: A Sad, Lovelorn Blind Item
    I read this letter yesterday, and I hoped this would end up a blind item! She dropped way too many clues in her letter, she is so obviously hoping someone will figure it out. And probably hoping that it will get back to the dude and he will know that she still thinks of him without actually telling him herself.


    Unfortunately, I haven't a clue who the person is.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/28/09

    @Looker: that pretty much puts her in the Creepy Stalker category, doesn't it?
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    04/28/09

    In reply to The National Geographic Host: A Sad, Lovelorn Blind Item
    Well, shit, if somebody had ditched me for Shamu the Whale I guess my self-esteem might be a tad tattered. But

    12 years? Might be time for a cross-over episode with A&E Intervention. Candy Finnegan will put her straight. "Hon, he's a fish! OK, a mammal, but he SMELLS like a fish. You want THAT?"
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    Image of irishbreakfast irishbreakfast
    04/28/09

    In reply to The National Geographic Host: A Sad, Lovelorn Blind Item
    IMHO Cary Tennis is a danger to humankind. I'm gonna try this advice gig:


    You will find you are like a trapezoid, hovering above a moist divot in the terrain on your good island. Be that divot and then dig deep until you are less than that and can see all and nothing. Do not let this become your excuse to avoid your problem but rather find comfort here and learn to enjoy full immersion in the very thing you wish to escape.

    All we need here is a reference to a hotdog and a hallway and we're entering grifter territory....

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/28/09

    @irishbreakfast: It's eerie how close to the mark that is.
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    04/28/09

    In reply to The National Geographic Host: A Sad, Lovelorn Blind Item
    She needs some serious psychiatric help. She recognizes how over the top and out of proportion her feelings are to the situation and still can't do anything to stop them after 21 years? Not good.
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    Image of gladys_kravitz gladys_kravitz
    04/28/09

    @gladys_kravitz: oops. make that 12 years.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/28/09

    @gladys_kravitz: an any transposition of numbers to make, and yet it still doesn't really help that letter writer's case, does it? Carrying a torch (who am i kidding, she's lugging around a big ol' bonfire) even for 12 years is still kind of crazypants.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/28/09

    @Hydroceph: an EASY transposition of numbers. sigh.
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