aretha franklin is doing press in advance of her appearance on saturday at whitney houston's funeral.
Wasn't she Whitney's godmother?
The surrealism of everyday life
Started by Vanessa, Sep 22 2004 10:31 AM
12284 replies to this topic
#11611
Evelyn
-
- Members
-
- 4,056 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 04:13 AM
Wasn't she Whitney's godmother?
#11612
splinky
-
- Members
-
- 17,588 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 04:15 AM
yup
aretha franklin is doing press in advance of her appearance on saturday at whitney houston's funeral.
Wasn't she Whitney's godmother?
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
#11613
Rail Paul
-
- Members
-
- 17,549 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 02:46 PM
The Las Vegas Eatery known as the Heart Attack Grill suffered its first, da-dum, heart attack this week.
The diner was eating a "Triple Bypass Burger" _ including 1.5 pounds of beef and a dozen bacon slices _ this weekend when he began complaining of chest pains, according to a report on KVVU-TV in Las Vegas. Paramedics quickly arrived to treat the customer, who is now recovering.
Insensitive
Eater links to a press release calling for a shut down of the Heart Attack Grill. The vegan influenced group is shocked by the public health menace of the restaurant.
The Heart Attack Grill should respond to the recent hospitalization of a patron eating a “Triple Bypass Burger” by declaring moral bankruptcy and closing up shop, says the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in a letter to the restaurant’s owner.
Dramatic video of a customer being wheeled out of the Las Vegas restaurant on a stretcher is only the latest sign of the very real risks associated with celebrating high-fat diets. Blair River, a Heart Attack Grill spokesman, died last year at the age of 29. River, who starred in commercials for the eatery, weighed 575 pounds at the end of his life and died of pneumonia. Studies have shown that obesity increases the risk of respiratory complications, including pneumonia.
Shut it down, they say
"Peter Kiewit looked for three things in hiring people. He looked for integrity, intelligence and energy. And he said if a person didn’t have the first…that the latter two would kill him. Because if they don’t have integrity, you want ‘em dumb and lazy. You don’t want ‘em smart and energetic.”
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
#11614
Wilfrid
-
- Members
-
- 59,839 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 03:42 PM
Grandstanding. I read the story yesterday, and the one thing nobody can say about the Heart Attack Grill is that it doesn't warn its customers. The restaurant is covered in big signs essentially saying they are going to kill you.
One might find it all to be in reprehensible taste. The solution: don't eat there.
One might find it all to be in reprehensible taste. The solution: don't eat there.
Why live your life when you could curate it?
At the Sign of the Pink Pig
#11615
yvonne johnson
-
- Members
-
- 8,065 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 04:05 PM
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have installed billboards with "Cheese Makes You Chubby" warnings.
Billboards
Billboards
It was not a new dish, as I recognised my tooth marks. Wilfrid
#11616
Wilfrid
-
- Members
-
- 59,839 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 04:12 PM
At least they don't call themselves "Physicians for Responsible Advertising."
Why live your life when you could curate it?
At the Sign of the Pink Pig
#11617
Lex
-
- Members
-
- 15,257 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 04:59 PM
Those madcap scamps at PETA filed a lawsuit against Sea World on the grounds that the whales they use for their show are slaves under the 13th amendment. The Daily Show rips them a new one.
Video
Video
“I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.”
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
#11618
Suzanne F
-
- Members
-
- 14,104 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 05:06 PM
Another reason I don't watch TV (statement to be taken on many levels)
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
#11619
cstuart
-
- Members
-
- 1,211 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 06:29 PM
This is the restaurant I posted a photo of my sister standing in front of. The large sign says, "Over 350lbs eats free."Grandstanding. I read the story yesterday, and the one thing nobody can say about the Heart Attack Grill is that it doesn't warn its customers. The restaurant is covered in big signs essentially saying they are going to kill you.
One might find it all to be in reprehensible taste. The solution: don't eat there.
#11620
Sneakeater
-
- Admin
-
- 30,287 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:02 PM
Those madcap scamps at PETA filed a lawsuit against Sea World on the grounds that the whales they use for their show are slaves under the 13th amendment. The Daily Show rips them a new one.
Video
Whales seem to me to be closer to being people than corporations do.
Bar Loser
#11621
splinky
-
- Members
-
- 17,588 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:07 PM
everyone knows that slaves and whales are chattel and aren't covered by fancy constitutionsThose madcap scamps at PETA filed a lawsuit against Sea World on the grounds that the whales they use for their show are slaves under the 13th amendment. The Daily Show rips them a new one.
Video
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
#11622
Lex
-
- Members
-
- 15,257 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:13 PM
Wyatt Cenac seemed to take a really dim view of that whales-as-slaves analogy. I especially enjoyed how he made that smug blonde woman jump through hoops trying to explain how she could own a dog if she believed animals are people.
“I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.”
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
#11623
Wilfrid
-
- Members
-
- 59,839 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:33 PM
I wonder if the thirteenth amendment applies to loaves of bread, coffee mugs and keyboards. They are all taking a lot of shit too.
Why live your life when you could curate it?
At the Sign of the Pink Pig
#11624
splinky
-
- Members
-
- 17,588 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:36 PM
"by any means necessary"Wyatt Cenac seemed to take a really dim view of that whales-as-slaves analogy. I especially enjoyed how he made that smug blonde woman jump through hoops trying to explain how she could own a dog if she believed animals are people.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
#11625
Sneakeater
-
- Admin
-
- 30,287 posts
Advanced Member
Posted 17 February 2012 - 07:42 PM
Gives a whole new meaning to "the chickens have come home to roost."
Bar Loser
