12/10   Saw a homeless guy today with a sign asking for money who had on
    a Wharton School of Business sweatshirt.
        \_ It's not Haas.
           \_ I did see a homeless guy in Las Vegas with a Cal hat on once.
              \_ How do you know he's a homeless guy and not some weird
                 social science major guy experimenting with the idea
                 of social begging?
              \_ I saw a homeless guy with a WebVan shirt on. Maybe he was
                 the old CEO of WebVan.
        \_ A lot of such branded clothing ends up in donation bins.  I've heard
           you can find African villagers wearing pretty comical clothing.
           \_ and they carry AK-47 as well?
        \_ I took this picture of a Britney Spears T-Shirt while trekking in
           a (Karem? Hmong? I can't remember) village in Thailand:
           http://csua.berkeley.edu/~abe/thai-britney.jpg

8/28    Wow, remember how Obama complained about being compared to Britney
        Spears?  His holy temple set is being built by...Spears' set builder.
        http://tinyurl.com/5ft7yl
        \_ Wow, that's so meaningful!
        \_ Stay on track, little GOPpuppet. Keep telling America that it is
        \_ Stay on track, little GOPuppet. Keep telling America that it is
           a bad thing to elect leaders who are popular and charismatic, I
           just love this line of attack.
           \_ Hilarious.  I'm not a GOP. -op
            \_ as independant as o'reilly eh?

2/16    Lindsay Lohan 10 years ago:
        http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3785463808/tt0120783
        Lindsay Lohan now:
        http://nymag.com/fashion/08/spring/lindsay-as-marilyn
        \_ I understand why famous people are famous.  I don't understand why
           anyone cares about them, especially entertainment figures.
           \_ It's escapism - modern soap opera.  And it makes lots and lots
              of money:
              http://csua.org/u/kt3 (portfolio.com)
        \_ Look at all those black dots all over her body.
           \_ Those are called "freckles".  Hot white girls get those.
              \_ Why do they make the girls hot?  IMO they are ugly.
                 \_ You're an idiot.
        \_ Man, drugs are not helping here.

10/18   Britney Spears loses visitation right!

5/21    Neuromancer movie is coming:
        http://preview.tinyurl.com/2v2rbj (firstshowing.net)
        \_ Gee, they got the guy that directed the Britney Spears "Toxic"
           video to direct.  This may be nearly as good as "Johnny Mnemonic."
           \_ with a taste of your lips i'm on a ride

11/7    Britney files for divorce.
        \_ She is so white trash.
           \_ No, white trash is Tiffany.

3/29    You know, it's not actually possible to birth a baby that way.
        Besides, she had an elective c-section.
        http://www.stereogum.com/archives/002424.html
        \_ Aww.. the pictures don't show the baby coming out.
        \_ You know, the artist isn't serious.
           \_ It got him his 15 minutes.

12/2    Anyone else have this problem with pandora?  I play my station, and
        it sounds good for the first half hour or so.  I sometimes give it
        feedback.  Then I zone into work, and then later, ~1-2 hours, I realize
        that it's gone waaay off my selected type of music.  For some reason,
        without constant feedback it gets weirder and weirder. eg. it starts
        playing pop(Madonna, Britney Spears) when it started as a trance/techno
        station, or once it started playing Depeche mode, when it was originally
        indie rock.
        \_ wonder if this is a product of a limited music library and
           restrictions on repeats.  Maybe it starts with 'best matches' to your
           preferences and proceeds to lesser and lesser matches as it exhausts
           its selections.
           \_ I thought 20,000 songs was pretty extensive.  I guess not.

7/14    Well, that lifetime commitment didn't last long:
        link:www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/9131961.htm
        \_ So by this standard, I guess Britney Spears' marriage and divorce
           invalidates heterosexual marriage.
           \_ I didn't say anything about what it means.  You need to wash out
              your mind.
              \_ I think he's responding to the jackass in the article who said
                 that "unnatural marriages" wouldn't last because they're about
                 self-gratification instead of love.
                 \_ Thank you.

5/5     Britney "au naturale":
        http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=172478
        \_ broken link
           \_ Works for me. Not naked, btw, just without makeup on.
              \_ Thanks, should have specified it was work-safe. -op
        \_ It's not really "without makeup". I think I see some smeared old
           makeup. Not that I ever thought she was hot.
           \_ I know I'm just begging for trouble by writing this, but my
              18-yr-old cousin looks a lot like Britney, but a little shorter,
              w/better skin and much bigger breasts.  Yes, she makes family
              get-togethers a little uncomfortable.
              \_ When are you going to hit it?

1/3     WTF? Britney marries?
        http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/04/britney.spears.wedding.ap/index.html
        \_ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3366529.stm
        \_ Not any more.  They had it annulled.
        \_ so that explains it!  i just proposed marriage to her by email
           a couple days ago, and was wondering why she hadn't returned
           my email.
        \_ oh the horror! 100+ people die in a plane crash and this makes it
           into the MOTD
                \_ oh. since when has the motd been about important news?
           \_ fyi: yes, 1 person can be more important than 100+ people.
              \_ I'm still trying to think of someone less important than
                 Britney Spears.
                 \_ Peevee Herman.

12/7    Would anyone be interested in buying toilet paper smeared (pun
        intended) with pictures of GW Bush, Gray Davis, or Britney Spears?
        \_ I don't know, but in Korea they have toilet paper with
           "common english phrases" and their korean translations.  Study
            English while wiping your behind!
            \_ No wonder their English is so shitty. Fighting!!!
               \_ hey, maybe we really like to fight.  all the time, by
                  how common that phrase has become, apparently.

11/4    Madonna soils all that she touches
        \_ Hey. Britney was spoiled by Justin, not Madonna.
           \_ Britney was spoiled at birth.  A lack of brains will do that.

9/1     How come there's no talk about the kiss between Britney Spears and
        Madonna?  Can we get some perspective from the straight guys and
        the lesbian community?  (if you ask me, it was really hot and turned
        me on! :-)
        \_ link:www.rainbownetwork.com/content/News.asp?newsid=3597
           apparently she also kissed Aguliera.
           ...and here's what jackass biblethumping gunnut motherfuckers
           http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/974106/posts
        \_ Because seeing 1 has-been and 2 wanna-bes pulling some attention
           getting stunt isn't all that discussion worthy.  A friend of mine
           sells pr0n on ebay if you want "better-than-MTV! better-than-CATS!"
           lesbian pr0n.  Or just get a bisexual gf.  That'll be a much bigger
           turnon.  You'll quickly get over seeing the crone and the babies on
           \_ You're right. I can't get over seeing that other guy's STUFF.
           have to say about it:
           http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/974106/posts
           MTV.  Your first three way will stay with you forever.

12/12   Osama bin Laden has displaced
  Pamela Lee Anderson in cyberspace
  and people looking for information about
  the American flag outnumbered those
  curious about Britney Spears. For the
  first time in the short history of the
  Internet, popular search engines report
  that "sex" dropped off their lists of top
  10 search terms in the days following
  the attacks on the World Trade Center
  and Pentagon. (Reuters, Sep. 20 '01)
        \_ Why is this being posted now?
        \_ URL please?
        \_ "popular search engines".  Which ones?  Stop posting techie stuff
           from idiotic non-techie sources like Reuters.  That's like going to
           slashdot to get legal info or political news.

5/7     Mummy Returns - typical hollywood cookie-cutter trash.
        \_ Did you pay $7 at a theater or did you d/l it? If you d/l'ed
           did it suck bad enough that you feel the time spend getting
           it could have been used to get a better movie?
        \_ Mmm, cookie-cutter trash.  Is hollywood trash really that much
           worse than foreign cinema sentimentalism?  Sometimes, between
           watching some artsy french film (in fuzzy black & white) dealing
           with the effects of losing a cat, and watching a certified
           brainless hollywood trash film with all the standard jokes, I'd
           rather go with the latter.  Unless the cat happen to belong to
           militant prostitute lesbians on a mass murder binge, of course.
           \_ that's almost funny enough for me to reconsider. hollywood's
              efx laden eye-candy are only midly interesting and
              overpaid stars are utterly disgusting. one day a bomb will
              go off in teh academy awards and wipe the slate clean
              \_ Upon reconsideration, I realized that I'd rather see the
                 lost cat film afterall.  But the point is, Hollywood trash
                        \_ less artsy, more fartsy!
                 has its place--in the gutters of society, maybe, but some
                 people enjoy it.  For that matter, so do Hollywood celebrity.
                 Everyone idolizes _something_.  It may not be a blond
                 bombshell with fake boobs, but it might as well be.  I mean,
                 are people who idolize Nietzsche that much better than people
                 who idolize Britney Spears?  If you think so, you might as
                 well be a nazi.
                 \_ This is intellectual relativism.  Nietzsche is a person,
                    with a mind.  Britney Spears is a vagina + marketing.
                    You are a troll + too much time on your hands.
           never seen before. The Mummy Returns provided most of that.
                    \_ Regardless, britney is hot, Nietzsche, still dead.
                       \_ what about us necrophiliacs?
                    \_ Britney is in the Mummy Returns?
                 \_ "everyone idolizes something" != "for each thing, there
                    is someone who idolizes it"
        \_ There's just as much junk in the foreign film / Cannes / independent
           market. It's just not enough people have seen those to know there's
           crap there too. I'm not really trying to defend Hollywood, but can
           it really be all that bad when they give me exactly what I want? I
           go to theaters to escape reality, to have fun, to see stuff I've
           never seen before. The Mummy Returns provided most of that. After
           spending 50-60 hours the past week overloading my brain with C++
           at work, do I really want to continue using my brain to discover
           the meaning of life from rotting cheese from some overemoting actor?
           No. I just wanna turn off my brain and enjoy over-the-top action
           galore.
           \_ After loading my brain for 50 - 60 hours, I would go mountain
              biking.  The problem with many Hollywood movies is that they
              are no longer "fun" and "never seen before".  However I did
              liked Mummy, so I am going to give Mummy II a try.  Maybe it's
              because I have always liked this Egypt/Archaeologist/Raider's
              of The Lost Ark genre.  Yes, I hate boring and meaningless art
              films too.  They should be meaningful and preferably
              entertaining too.  I am not as interested in style without
              content.
              of The Lost Ark genre.  Yes, I also hate art films that are
              boring and meaningless.  They should be meaningful and
              preferably entertaining too.  I am not as interested in style
              without content.  Pure style has its place but it's not for
              me.
        \_ I was disappointed with Mummy Returns as well.  Hopefully the 3rd
           installment will be much better (like the Indiana Jones trilogy).
           Have you seen Deep Rising?  That's another film my Stephen Sommers
           that I really enjoy, it's pretty much your ultimate big-budget
           B movie.

4/13    Britney Spears hits the big time:

http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/utils/playmedia.jhtml?clip=/mtv/realmedia/g2/clips/s/spears_britney/last_to_know_30.rm

2/24    Britney Spears didn't win. IS THERE NO GOD?
        \_ THereis, but apparently he perfers mexicans.
        \_ So what was Jennifer Lopez wearing last night. I heard she wasn't.
                \_ You mean God prefers LATINO/LATINA artists, you
                politically incorrect piece of shit     -ricky martin #1 fan
                   \_ PC-ism started as a joke years ago.  Somehow the left
                      which lacks any sense of humor thought it was real and
                      took the next step down the censorship and thought
                      control path.  "PC" was once an insult.  Now you insult
                      for not being PC.  The world is a strange place.  Excuse
                      me while I go purge myself of all impurities of thought
                      that have not yet been approve by the looney left.
                \_ Jennifer Lopez is hot
                        \_ Forget PC, it's just plain incorrect.  Ricky Martin
                                isn't from Mexico, he's from Menudo.
                \_ Jennifer Hopez is hot
        \_ So what was Jennifer Hopez wearing last night. I heard she wasn't.
        \_ She didn't?  Then why was she on stage accepting the award for best
           new artist?
           \_ best "nude" artist?
           \_ Sigh. Yet another guy who can't tell the difference
              between B.S. and C.Ag. Then again, is there really any
              difference?
                \_ Why would anyone care?  It's all bubble gum noise anyway.
        \_ Any pics?
        \_ YES my good man: check out http://sfgate.com under entertainment.
           there's an article on santana's sweep, and photos...
           my goodness....=)
        \_ why didn't Mandy Moore win?!
        \_ Everything in here is wrong except the bits about
           "thereis", "goodness....=", and "tell".
        \_ bitch, just shut the fuck up!
        \_ more pics, second paragraph:  http://formen.ign.com/news/15674.html