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CumaeanSibyl
07/02/09

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If you're arguing with the internet, you've already lost.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
07/02/09

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really? a sexman beef??? i quit the internet. everyday. starting tomorrow.
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Voyou_Charmant
07/02/09

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Ok, this is actually pretty funny. That kid is painfully awkward.
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RaptorAvatar
07/02/09

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Unfortunately, we won't really know who the bigger man was until they market the Pruane2Forever Vibrator.
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kathotdog
07/02/09

@RaptorAvatar:

The Pruane2Forever Vibrator wouldn't be very large, would only vibrate on very slow and would quit before you even got started.
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Trai_Dep
07/03/09

@kathotdog: More like, vibrate frantically and enthusiastically. For about 10 seconds before quitting.

But a minute later, back for business!
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
07/02/09

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Between this and Stephen Harper, Canada is really slipping.
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shostakobitch
07/02/09

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find out when you fuckin' broke, love won't get you on the bus
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Mount_Prion
07/02/09

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I fucking love 50 Cent.

That is all.
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lafleur
07/02/09

@Mount_Prion: He has quite nice teeth.
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mmstk101
07/02/09

@lafleur: It's due to the new Crest Whitening Grillz

Street cred can still kill gingivitis dead
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Bobby Big Wheel
07/02/09

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When's Fitty gonna break bread with the Tough Brets?
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
04/02/09

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did they settle it with 'a motherf*cking walkoff'? please tell me they did

also:Isaac Mizrahi and Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland? what the hell?
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MisterHippity
04/02/09

@The Boulevard of Broken Queens: No, a payoff.

"It's a motherfucking payoff!!"
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unclevanya
04/02/09

@The Boulevard of Broken Queens: @MisterHippity:
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MisterHippity
04/01/09

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Re: "I want to personally congratulate Jeff Zucker and NBCU on their success in the litigation …"

Here are a few other people Harvey Weinstein would like to personally congratulate:

"… the rest of Hollywood, for successfully kicking my ass at both the box office and the Oscars for the past several years."

"… my ex-wife, Eve, for successfully getting the Central Park Duplex away from me in the divorce and then selling it for $25 million."

"… my brother Bob, for successfully pinning me down and farting in my face when I was 10 years old."
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MisterHippity
04/01/09

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WHOO-HOO!!

Let it be true. Let it soon. And let the live-blog madness begin anew!!
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katekate is squared
04/01/09

@MisterHippity: Yes please! Also, nice rhyming.
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unclevanya
04/01/09

@katekate is squared: Indeed: A-B-C-A. Impressive!

Looking forward to rejoicing when the first episode airs, followed immediately by bitching about how it has jumped the shark and how Tim looks drunk. Yay!
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Inhaler
04/01/09

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Now that Project Runway has been officially moved over to Lifetime, how about giving Tracey Gold a permanent judges seat?

Her and Heidi can throw up together.
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scarletmenace
04/01/09

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I'm confused...am I as a male, allowed to watch Lifetime? Won't it burn my eyes?
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Rumpelstilskin
04/01/09

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If this is true, I am naming my new pony Nina! I be happy now.
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Spirit Fingers
04/01/09

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Just an observation. That photo looks less like a consenting, "Ooo, my boyfriend, the sailor, is home from war, Yay!" and more like, "I'm a woman living in a time when a drunk sailor can assault you in public and it becomes fodder for Life magazine for like a gazillion generations and I can still feel his rapish arms on my body. Thanks, you Americana starved fucks."

Ruins that iconic image a bit, doesn't it?
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Richard Lawson
04/01/09

@Spirit Fingers: No. I don't think grabbing someone and kissing them because you're just so happy that a war that has killed millions up on millions of people, a war in which you very easily could have died, has ended. I think that's sheer human connection, at its most basic and good level. She was surprised, sure, but unexpected physical contact isn't always a bad thing.
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Spirit Fingers
04/01/09

@Richard: Naw, I disagree. Something about the positioning of that dude's arm by her head bothers me. And yes the overall presumption of it. Don't get me wrong, I understand the need for an emotional outburst, truly. But, yah, I would have used that bent knee to take out one of his hangy bits. End Scene.

Also, it's not like I said "Slow News Day" or something, Richard. (Snicker)
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Baroness
04/01/09

@Richard: Agreed. It's an image of spontaneous exhilaration at war's end. And nurses of that era, in NYC, were no frail, sexless maidens, they were quite tough enough to handle a randy sailor if he were crossing a line. His embrace does seem rough and clumsy, but in the exuberant joy of that day, emotions were high. (And he probably hadn't seen a woman in a few years..)

It's interesting, as an iconic image, it's like an illustration of the postwar Baby Boom's Ground Zero, symbolically.
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Awesome X
04/01/09

@Spirit Fingers: Right -- the arm thing is creepy. It's not "The Accused," but dude does sort of have her in a headlock.
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katekate is squared
04/01/09

@Spirit Fingers: You must be joking.
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Spirit Fingers
04/01/09

@katekate is squared: No, not at all. But it's like 11:45 now, so whatevs.
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MisterHippity
04/02/09

@Baroness: "It's interesting, as an iconic image, it's like an illustration of the postwar Baby Boom's Ground Zero, symbolically."

That's one of the most intelligent and perceptive things I've read here in quite some time.
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MisterHippity
04/02/09

@Awesome X: @Spirit Fingers:

What makes you think they're total strangers? I always assumed that the nurse was the sailor's girlfriend. Doesn't that make more sense?

Also, you don't know that he's got her in a headlock ... he could just as easily be gently bracing her with his arm to keep her from falling over backwards. You can never tell with still images ... they capture reality in strange (and often deceptive) ways.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
04/02/09

@MisterHippity: the interesting thing about ALL the classic life images, for me, is hearing the stories of what happened to these people down the line - the sailor has been located and interviewed, but he and the nurse separated after this photo and never saw each other again, and I don't believe she's ever been located. the screaming girl in the kent state massacre photo was a runaway at the time, and is now a waitress in las vegas who does not like to talk about the incident - apparently that photo has followed her, in a negative way, her whole life. the screaming girl running down the street in the napalm photo was treated for her burns immediately after and now speaks internationally for world peace (?) I'm sure there's a site dedicated to all of this somewhere, but I'm too tired to google for it...
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Spirit Fingers
04/02/09

@MisterHippity: Well, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they didn't know each other. I still think despite the sentimental happy-pants of it...there's still a lot of presumption here and it does say something, in my opinion, on the feelings about women in those days. God love the troops, but if the Iraq war ended tomorrow and a soldier randomly grabbed me for a deep throated kiss, he's getting a well-timed jab in an eye socket. Just sayin. I'd shake his hand and offer my sincere gratitude, but yeah, that'd be about it.
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katekate is squared
04/02/09

@Spirit Fingers: As awful as the Iraq war is, it's not World War II, so your comparison doesn't really work.
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Spirit Fingers
04/02/09

@katekate is squared: You've missed my point. I'm not comparing WWII to the Iraq war in that sense. I'm comparing the response elicited from a stranger randomly placing his mouth upon another's without invitation. And my point is exactly that today it would be difficult for a stranger to kiss a woman on a street in this manner, than it was during that time. In my opinion, it has little to do with WWII and more to do with societal norms and accepted behaviors of the day. And yes, it could be viewed as an undeniable moment of elation, or terribly romantic, or a measure of discourse on what it must have felt like to no longer believe the "end of the world was near," but all in all, I still think there's room to say it was presumptuous, a one-sided action, and a bit disregarding, truthfully. All "response to doomsday" scenarios aside.
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