The Best Part of my Day
October 4th, 2008 by Wendietoday was knowing that O.J. is in the clink. I love watching this video. Note how there is no stumbling over the pronunication of Orenthal. That is because that woman knows she is reading a true and just verdict. 4,478 days too late if you ask me.
I know I am just an irreverant wiseass with a laptop but I feel am very serious about this. I hope and pray that he is the premier ankle grabbing love bitch of his cell block.
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WOW!
What a way to start things off!
Welcome Wendie! Beet needs a break on the weekends and I am sure glad you are here. This can be a tough crowd sometimes but I’m sure Beet warned you of that! Ignore the idiots-they won’t go away.
@ emily
That’s a good point, and yes you should go after the cooka nd not the waitress, but a lot of people aren’t as smart as the average bear, and they would freak at the waitress.
@ Holly that’s also a good point as well, unfortunately, for Beet many of her readers are acting like a bunch of girls who didn’t make the cut for cheerleaders and are mad they ended up flag girls. If jealous had a smell, a lot of you would stink!
Love the way the big black guard moves in behind him as they start to read the guilty verdicts. Like he’s going to try and do one of his famous runs. Maybe he had a white bronco waiting outside the courtroom.
The situation with OJ is really one of the reasons this website is so much fun to read and comment on. Let me explain:
I don’t know if most of you are old enough to remember what OJ used to be in the public eye, but he used to be a football hero, an amusingly inadequate actor in movies, and the familiar face of the guy bolting through airports in commercials. He was a celebrity that people really liked and looked up to. . . . And then he murdered his wife and some other poor guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Most people were shocked beyond belief.
The chasm between who the public thought he was, and who he REALLY was in private, is as huge as the volume of knowledge that Sarah Palin does not have. Plus, the backstory on how he used to get away with all kinds of spousal abuse because the star-struck cops used to turn a blind eye for their smooth-talking football hero, shows how our hero worship of celebrities clouds the fact that they are just people, and should been seen and treated, and in some cases punished, as such.
The story of public OJ v. REAL OJ is a lesson that anyone who is interested in snarking at self-important, immature, conceited and rude celebrities should note. Perhaps OJ would have turned into a monster even if he’d never been worshipped on the throne of celebrity, but his celebrity allowed otherwise intelligent people to make allowances for his behavior, for the murders even!
Now, I am not saying that every celebrity is a closet abusive, sociopathic potential murderer! (Perhaps Spencer Pratt, but I digress.) A lot of them merely get swelled heads and lose sight of normal and acceptable behavior. And that’s why telling the stories of how celebrities really behave, and of their hilariously inflated egos, helps carve away at the cult of celebrity.
I know, I know, that was a long way to go just to say, “Finally, that bastard is getting his!” Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.
@ purplemonkeypaws. Unfortunately, this isn’t kindergarten. We’re not going to sit around and hold hands. The internet is a brutal place filled with people who are going to jump on everything that one does. I’m certain Wendie knew that when she signed on. For every person who constructs an intelligent, well thought out response, there are 40 douchebags who should have their internet privileges revoked.
I’m also not crazy about the assertion that anyone who criticizes Wendie is JEALOUS that she got the job, or that they somehow had an eye on the position themselves. I assure you, I did not apply for the job, nor did I want it. I work in NYC at my DREAM JOB. I am exhausted all week long. The last thing I want is any level of real responsibility on the weekends. :o)
Bottom line… Sometimes criticism is just a way to draw attention to the problem so that it can be corrected. Nothing more, nothing less.
I was wrong. OJ did get convicted. There is a God.
tss definitely stands for toxic shock syndrome.
you know, that thing you get when you leave a tampon in for too long?
it’s on the side of the box that i read when i pee.
abigail-
That is the BEST thing I have heard all day.