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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Tonight's Special: One Disgruntled Photo Hound
How clueless do you have to be to not recognize that soliciting an A-list celeb's photo or autograph at a restaurant is a signal to the entire dining room that he's available for requests for the next hour and a half?

This clueless.

According to the woman pictured:

• She approached Alex Rodriguez for a photo at dinner
• His wife and friends "huffed and puffed"
• He reluctantly complied
• Her friend asked if he was an asshole
• She said yes, loud enough for A-Rod to hear
• A-Rod flipped her friend the bird

And now she's pissed. Sending out an e-mail to a celeb gossip site to expose this indignity.

Know your role, lady. You're not the only one who wanted a photo or an autograph or to have him say hi to your niece on the cell. But you're the only one who thought he wasn't entitled to have dinner without doing those things. For everyone. Or are you just special?

Short of turning every meal into an impromptu autograph session, there's no way these guys can win. Just leave 'em the hell alone and let them be human.

Today's Web Finds:

The Daily Show Rips on Bush's Staged Conference Call With Troops — What a goofball. The segment was also spoofed on Saturday Night Live.

The Most Painful True Story on Snopes.com — Talk about a guy who loves his job. The claim, said to be true: "A masturbating machine-shop worker catches his scrotum in a piece of machinery and tears it open, then staples it back together and resumes work before finally visiting a doctor three days later." (Thanks, Pee Wee)

The Bill Gates Net Worth Page — Interesting tid-bits on the Microsoft booty, like the fact his net worth has jumped $3.8 million each day since March 13, 1986. (Thanks, Roy)

Hog's Breath Saloon's Homemade Bikini Contest 2004 — Fantasy Fest 2005 is gasping for air. I think I'm gonna cry.

JustFuckingGoogleIt.com — I know I've linked to this before, but if I get asked another question that someone could find an answer to on his own in five seconds....

Dane Cook Soundboard — All from the Harmful if Swallowed album, which I like a lot better than Retaliation. "What about that whole middle ground, where you're an IDIOT?"

Sex By RSS — I still don't know to configure an RSS reader, or if I even need one, but if you do here's your chance to choose between such feeds as doggystyle, shaven, secretary and more. Might be the toughest decision of the day for a lot of you.

Spur-M Sperm Pills — Learned about this drug through spam mail, which can be wildly entertaining if you give it a shot. Anyway, these pills give you "up to 500% more volume" on your load. "Cover her in it if you want," the product says. Yeah, if you want. Might want to ask your lady how she feels about it first before dropping the XXXXXL tsunami.

The Budd Dwyer Show — Lyrics and guitar chords to the song about the Pennsylvania state treasurer who killed himself with a .357 magnum on live TV in 1987. I'm a sure it's an uplifting diddy.

TIME's List of 100 All-Time Novels — Again, they go the pussy route and don't rank 'em, but it's a cool package, with links to original reviews from the mag, like this 1925 write-up on The Great Gatsby. Who was, as Thornton Melon told us, great.

Bar Trick: Ups and Downs — All you need is three shots glasses or empty cups and one totally smashed sucker. Works like a charm, over and over.

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Comments: Tonight's Special: One Disgruntled Photo Hound

Yo A-Rod is looking like Bert come to life from Sesame street and whats with the chick she is looking a little scary too

Posted by Derek at October 25, 2005 1:02 AM

At least he remembered to bring the purple lips out with him.

I was gonna make a joke about her never having had a meal interrupted, but that would be too cruel.

Posted by Paul Katcher at October 25, 2005 1:23 AM

I do like that the host of the site points out that if they'd been called an asshole, they might flip the bird too.

And the fact that she actually had to go and post about it to a celeb gossip site proves to me she is probably just a fame whore herself, the kind of person who probably makes these athletes huff and puff when they get interrupted for autographs.

Posted by kabsy77 at October 25, 2005 7:32 AM

It's important to remember here that 2 negatives don't make a positive. Just because this woman was entirely wrong in what she did and was a completely cunt to call him an asshole in that situation doesn't mean that A-rod is not actually an asshole.


Just not in this case.


Or if he decides to come play 3rd based in Boston.

Posted by fishdan at October 25, 2005 9:12 AM

He did already decide to play SS for Boston, but the team didn't want to pay what it would have taken. So now Sux fans hate him for it.

Posted by Paul Katcher at October 25, 2005 11:22 AM

"Lyrics and guitar chords to the song about the Pennsylvania state treasurer who killed himself with a .357 magnum on live TV in 1987."

The awesome 1995 jam "Hey Man Nice Shot" by Filter was about the same thing. Apparently Dwyer's family was pretty pissed at the band as a result.

Posted by stackpat at October 25, 2005 11:37 AM

I totally agree with you PK. Leave the celebs/stars alone if they are at dinner, a urinal, church or where ever.

I have seen guys accost celebs in the head at hockey games or ball games. I mean think about it dumbass' out there... do you really want to shake the hand of some random guy you don't know that just had his dick in his hand. I'm not even going to go into the picture thing...

now, in my honest opinion, on the other hand when they are in a bar or some other social situation they are fair game. The worst is the celebs that come to some charity/social event, where they are billed as being there, and won't sign autographs/get pictures.

Looks like you had a good time at the porno party. when can we expect a review of the DVD?

Posted by Shumpy at October 25, 2005 12:33 PM

Paul - Is there a rule / courtesy about giving props to another website when you find something on it? You do a good job of it, but over at Brooks today I noticed the Pierzynski story that was up a week ago on another site. What is interesting is that Badjocks picked it up from brooks (with credit)and then badjocks got picked up by fark....anyway, I was just curious if there was any journalistic courtesy expected or if how it works....(other possibility is that brooks got the webshots link not knowing somebody else had it a week ago)....

Posted by gmac17 at October 25, 2005 10:55 PM

I have seen people act like total assholes around athletes (especially here in Philly) and expect them to take it. I hate when people bother me with work shit on my time, so can you imagine what these guys have to deal with. Fishdan was right about ONE thing...that girl is a cunt.

After seeing the pics of the Hogs Breath bikini contest, I think I am going to cry because I am going to miss it too :(. If you need to get away, the invite to Vegas in December still stands.

Posted by Cass at October 25, 2005 11:53 PM

gmac17, great question. I try as best as possible to credit people for finds, whether through e-mail, IM or my own surfing.

Some people, it seems, have a different policy and do not cedit. This can be obvious when it's a true "find," and not something in the news or linked from 1,000 blogs. No way people ended up on the same page on the same day, in some circumstances. Unless a reader makes a submission, in which case you can't always know that he found it at a competitior's site.

I don't give it too much thought, as this is just a hobby, not worried about people pilfering from my work. I would get angry, though, if people use my writing without credit. Maybe I'm just more protective of my bad jokes.

When I write for Brooks, I intentionally avoid similar sites so it doesn't appear I'm ripping them off. I wouldn't glean off another sports-links site, for example. The reason for that, mainly, is I want to help SbB be the best of its breed and I believe I can help do that on my own. Of course, nothing on the Net carries true exclusivity when it comes to linkage.

As for the other sites, ya gotta check with them. Some seem pretty inconsistent about it. There's a lot of copyright violations committed online -- photos, words, ideas, etc. -- and I guess everyone has his own view of what's over the line.

Posted by Paul Katcher at October 26, 2005 3:20 AM

thanks for the answer.

The only thing that annoys me is that Brooks seems extremely anal about keeping control of pics of the SBB girls, yet took a story straight from a competing blog....

Posted by gmac17 at October 26, 2005 10:26 PM
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