...and new from the "What The Fuck? Department"

[BlueChair]

MSNBC.com


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Tom Cruise, MGM form new United Artists
Movie legends Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin originally founded studio
The Associated Press
Updated: 2:22 p.m. ET Nov 2, 2006
NEW YORK - Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner have been put in charge of United Artists, a film studio that was formed by Hollywood actors including Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford.

Wagner will serve as chief executive of the company, which is owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Cruise will appear in UA films, but also be allowed to star in films from rival studios, MGM announced Thursday.

The development is a major comeback for Cruise and Wagner. They were unceremoniously dumped in August from their 14-year producing deal at Paramount Studios after Sumner Redstone, chairman of Paramount parent company Viacom Inc., blamed Cruise’s public antics for hurting the box office performance of “Mission:Impossible III.â€

[BlueChair]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/1 ... index.html

O.J. Simpson has a new book out. Apparently he still claims his innocence, but says "if I did kill my wife, this is how I would have done it..."

[mood swung]

I saw an advertisement for that last night - but I thought it was a tv appearance?

Sick, sick, sick.

[Who Shot Sam?]

He's doing a two-part TV interview as well. I'll have to set the Tivo.

[mood swung]

how broke can he be? or public eye-deprived? how much does he want to fuck up his kids?

[spooky girlfriend]

He's got to get on with "looking for the REAL killer."

[Otis Westinghouse]

Sometimes I make myself exclaim WTF? Went to Casino Royale, came home pumping testosterone, especially as MU were 1-0 up against Chelsea as I drove. Put the oven on to roast some veg, in true testosterone pumping fashion, it fired up OK, but then cut out. Went to the fuse box. All seemed normal. Thought to myself do these electric cookers have a normal three-pin plug as well as the switch in the wall? Investigated and found a plug that appeared to be just the thing, but it was at the back of a drawer, and I bruised my chest fiddling around for ages changing the fuse on it, to no avail. Decided the cooker, a few months out of guarantee, was knackered, so phoned Zanussi the next day. Guy came 5 days later, asked if the under-stairs fuse had tripped. Nope, I'd checked. He mentioned it saying 'oven' on it, which seemed odd, hadn't seen that. He took the built-under oven out, checked it over, couldn't do a thing. Reduced the fee from the £73 normally levied to a mere £53 for the estimate charge as no repair had taken place. After he left, leaving me with the prospect of shelling out the same or more for an electrician to check our electrics, I looked again under the stairs and found, lower down than the regular fuses and behind a box, the separate cooker fuse switch he was talking about. One little flip of the switch and all was sorted. Sometimes I wish I had a better grasp of electrics. We're massively stretched financially for the foreseeable future paying a whopping mortgage to cover loft conversion costs, which I learned on Friday were inevitably going over the anticipated total for various reasons, and Christmas is coming...

So I went into town, somewhat downcast. Left a loaf of bread in Sainsbury's, which I realised after cycling to another shop 10 mins away. Took out my wallet there and found I'd either left my debit card in Sainsbury's at the till or dropped it somewhere. Phoned them up, spoke to a trglodyte who didn't seem to understand any of the issues I presented before him regarding my anxiety over the card. Cycled back, and to my huge relief, card and loaf were awaiting me on the till. So a silver lining, at least.

WTF?

Footnote: this combined with an Elvis when you least expect him moment: Richard Hawley lookalike rock and roller 50s throwback busking rock 'n' roll classics outside the shop, suddenly played a very familiar riff and then the words kicked in - The Big Light!

[verbal gymnastics]

That's more FFS!

[Otis Westinghouse]

Or just FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!

[DrSpooky]

WTF? 19 Shopping Days Left Until Christmas!!!!! AAAAYYYY!!!!!

[verbal gymnastics]

Or 5 days if you're VG. I have got so much going on that I am limited to about 5 days. Actually, that's two days and three evenings! I have a day off on Friday so I'm hoping to blitz it then.

Buying presents for my friends and family is no problem - it's the number of children we buy presents for which is now about 10. It's very difficult to know what to buy some of them.

Mrs VG and I spend no more than £30 on each other, you have to buy at least 3 presents and you're not allowed to buy clothes, CDs/DVDs or vouchers. It's good fun.

[Mechanical Grace]

Oh, to have time be my main Christmas shopping obstacle! I'll do it for you for a 10% commission.... go ahead, give me your tough cases!

[BlueChair]

Two words:

Online shopping.

Seriously, it makes life so much easier so long as you do it early enough.

[Mechanical Grace]

Online shopping.

Absolutely. And then with a pal you can have a no-pressure faux shopping trip round your neighborhood stores, buying a little thing or two and stopping somewhere cozy for that all-important cup of holiday cheer. Sigh.

[DrSpooky]

So far, the Spookies have done some kids' stuff online. We cashed in Visa reward points for an XBox360 with wireless controllers so the kids will be happy about that.

Online can be a great but when the kids are old enough to read and think "hmmm package from Musician's Friend... could be for me?", it does give big hints.

OTOH the kids are perfectly happy to find the online stores that have what they want at the best price and show it to us.

[Otis Westinghouse]

I want to boycott Amazon though. They sent me an email saying Sims 2 was £15. Cool, I thought, then found out that was the PC DVD version. The PS2 version I need is twice that!

[Mr. Average]

Otis gets Wanker of the Year nomination. I can understand Bamboo, I can understand Mr. Average, but Otis? That's tantamount to nominating John Foyle for "EC Trivia Master Wannabe". What the ....

I missed something, 'cause in my book, he is haircut 100.

[Mechanical Grace]

Ummm... upside down Christmas trees? WTF?!?

[verbal gymnastics]

Oh, to have time be my main Christmas shopping obstacle! I'll do it for you for a 10% commission.... go ahead, give me your tough cases!

Thanks for the offer sweetie but it's now all done, all of the presents are wrapped (in my own unique way ) and I've now got 6 nights out in a row to get through. Is there a Livers'R'Us in the area?

[BlueChair]

Here's a good one:

Keith Richards snorted father's ashes
Stones guitarist mixed remains with cocaine — ‘it went down pretty well’
The Associated Press

Updated: 3:15 p.m. ET April 3, 2007

LONDON - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all.

In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father’s ashes mixed with cocaine.

“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,â€

[Otis Westinghouse]

Nice way to get high with your dad! Incredible symbolism. Perverse or poetic or both? I was thinking this was back in the 70s, and it was in the last 5 years!

[stormwarning]

Is there such a word as "Cocainnabalism"?

[verbal gymnastics]

[quote="BlueChair"]Here's a good one:

Keith Richards snorted father's ashes
Stones guitarist mixed remains with cocaine — ‘it went down pretty well’
The Associated Press

...

“I was No. 1 on the ‘who’s likely to die’ list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list,â€

[BlueChair]

Richards denies snorting dad's ashes
April 04, 2007
Associated Press

LONDON – Keith Richards was joking when he claimed to have snorted his father's ashes along with cocaine, a spokesman said Wednesday.

"It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool's joke," said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.

Doherty declined to say any more about why Richards made the statement in an interview with NME, a pop music magazine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," the 63-year-old guitarist was quoted as saying.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared ... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive.''

Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.

[spooky girlfriend]

I saw that, Blue. It definitely belongs in the WTF category.