Katie And Tom Have Settled

121 Comments

1. 1
   plockeness monster
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 4:46 pm

   Her 5 year contract was up and she opted outttttt.

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   kthxbai
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 6:26 pm

   I bet she got a settlement hex that says she can’t so much as say his religion’s name. Much less tell any of his extra terrestrial secrets. And of course not reveal if she ever found out if he has any body parts.

   I wonder if the generous visitation includes generous visit supervision. Maybe by Katie’s dad. Or at least TMZ.

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   Robinez
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 7:11 pm

   “The case has been settled and the agreement has been signed. We are thrilled for Katie and her family and are excited to watch as she embarks on the next chapter of her life…This result could not have been achieved without the hard work of my partner Gary Skoloff and our co-counsel Allan Mayefsky, Michael Mosberg and Larry Trachtenberg of Aronson Mayefsky and Sloan and Peter Walzer and Chris Melcher of Walzer & Melcher in California…We thank Tom’s counsel for their professionalism and diligence that helped bring about this speedy resolution.”

   Tom’s lawyer said, “All the lawyers and the parties are happy that it’s done, the deal was closed and we wish everyone well.”

   How seedy is that statement? They act as though a movie deal was closed and everyone walked away from the table with $ in the bank and it is cause to celebrate. How about the fact that there is a little girl somewhere in the mix that probably isn’t “happy that its done”?

   “without the hard work of my partner Gary Skoloff and our co-counsel Allan Mayefsky, Michael Mosberg and Larry Trachtenberg of Aronson Mayefsky and Sloan and Peter Walzer and Chris Melcher of Walzer & Melcher in California”…Sounds like an Oscar speach.

   Robin

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   maryedith
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 7:32 pm

   The whole thing stinks. On both sides. I hate Scientology; I think Tom Cruise is crazy. But I think the public got played here somehow. I don’t know if it was Tom and Katie, or just Katie, but this was about money.

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   Kittkatt
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 7:55 pm

   Yeah I figured it was a done deal when I heard today that Katie was spotted at a shoe store buying heels.

6. 6
   Clevegal42
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 8:03 pm

   @Kittkatt: Bazinga.

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   maryedith
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 8:22 pm

   kthxby, The visitation settlement reportedly stipulates that Suri’s nanny and some of Katie’s staff be present at all Tom’s visits.

   I’m not making that up.

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   notwithoutmytv
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 8:24 pm

   Our client’s marriage disintegrated. But we’re thrilled! It’s an opportunity! We can’t wait to see what happens next, and neither will you! Stay tuned! And, if you have a spot of legal/marital/contractural trouble yourself, here’s an entire circle jerk of ambulance chasers in really expensive suits you might consider…

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   KartofflMuter
   Posted July 9, 2012 at 9:34 pm

   I doubt very much it was about money. I think she looked at the step-kids and how Nichole Kidman got screwed by Scientology and said “I’m not drinking the kool-aid and neither is my child.”

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    germgurl
    Posted July 9, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    Sheesh, as if K.Holmes had NO idea TC was a member and follower of the church of Scientology when they got married.
    Also, whats with the default assumption that a father cannot see his own daughter without supervision?? I am so sick and tired of women utilizing their pregnancies and children for money and power games. *urgh*

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    itchy
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 12:36 am

    Considering Katie was used as a beard for Cruise’s own “games”, I think it’s all fair.

    Can’t wait until the next time I’m at a party and I overhear someone boasting about how they’ve retained Tom Cruise’s lawyers for their divorce. This is going to be the new flesh-eating bacteria, you’ll see.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 6:17 am

    Wow Itchy! You travel with a crowd that is way out of my league. I know the same people who once wrote their own marriage vows and are now writing up their own divorce settlements sans lawyers.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 6:58 am

    KM, Katie looked at those stepkids before the marriage, too. She also looked at Scientology, and signed up for it. I imagine sending Suri to Sea Org was probably too much, but apart from that Katie has been as much of a nutcase as a parent as Tom. I guess time will tell if she’s really a wonderful person and great actress who was just being controlled by Scientology or if she is just another Hollywood narcissist who got in a little over her head on this one. I am glad to see Scientology coming out such a loser on this one, but I do think she and her team were playing that for all it was worth. It all makes for great publicity for her upcoming projects.

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    merry
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:30 am

    Hope Katie is ready to go back to her pre-Tom life: as an unemployed “oh, that girl who was on Dawson’s Creek a million years ago; what’s her name?” actress. At least she’ll have that settlement money to buy herself shoes.

    Really. She knew who Tom was and what Scientology was. She married him for money and name recognition. Did she even do a movie before they got married? Apart from Dawson I can’t remember a thing she’s been in. He may be a nutjob who used her as a beard, but he’s the one with the big career. Shame on her for coasting on his coattails this long, especially if she really thinks he or his religion are dangerous to her daughter.

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    notwithoutmytv
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:46 am

    I guess any adult, child, or inanimate object that remains in close proximity to Tom Cruise for more than a week simply turns evil, huh? Katie Holmes was not only evil for marrying a Scientologist, she’s Double Dog Evil for exposing her kid to it? And, further, any career accomplishments she achieved post Dawson’s Creek amount to nothing because of Evil Tom Cruise?

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:00 am

    Well, blaming her lack of talent and success on Tom’s controlling ways amounts to the same thing, doesn’t it? I’m just tired of the “Victim Katie, Brave Katie, — everything-negative-about-Katie-is-because-of-Tom” slant. She’s an adult.

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:03 am

    FIRST-Is there a woman born that doesn’t think her special love can change a man? I haven’t met her. This was not about money. When she saw that she couldn’t save Suri,she took the child and ran. Why can’t you understand that? Katie’s father wasn’t poor. She had a career which she set aside for Tom. They had a pre-nup. The noose she was trying to get out of was her daughter’s ties to Scientology.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:04 am

    The noose she was trying to get out of was that prenup. The rest is fun to speculate about.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:07 am

    The comments on these stories in The Times of India are absolutely the best things I’ve ever read. I was up until 2am howling last night.

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:51 am

    WoW! Now I can say I’ve communicated with the person who knew the people who wrote their own wedding
    vows. There ends my fame. Itchy has us both beat.

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    Gypsy
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:59 am

    I know this will be unpopular but WHO CARES? He’s like a Kardashian he just doesn’t get when you’re dead, lie down.

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Never count out love for making you do crazy things. Nicole was so crushed by the divorce she said she was curled up on the floor in a fetal position.But then,she lost the kids too. Katie maintained control,cut her losses,and puts on a happy face. Who are we to judge? You can guess. You can speculate. You can surmise. But have you ever met any of the parties involved? Your source of information is the same as mine,in-depth reporting by tabloids. Congrats. We are officially experts. Continue to condemn. I choose not too. I have too many of my own sins to worry about.

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    wcsdancer
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 10:59 am

    I’m with you, maryedith. I think she probably was starstruck when they started out – dating her teen crush for real! Victim, not so much. It’s not like she was some sheltered little girl who was raised in the sticks…she’d been around Hollywood.

    “Is there a woman born that doesn’t think her special love can change a man? I haven’t met her.”
    Yeah, me. I was seeing someone once who tried to tell me that he’d be different if we moved in together…I told him that was BS.

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    kthxbai
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 11:35 am

    @maryedith Thanks for telling me about the visit rules. Tabloids always want things to sound sensational and over dramatic. But I think you nailed it about her thinking.

    For whatever reason she went along with it all up to a point. But his special plans he had for Suri were the nails in the coffin. And supposedly would get cranked up once she was 6.

    Now the news reports are saying Katie started cranking up her own plans close to 2 yrs ago. The list of everything she did over that time I guess could be coincidences. But specially with putting supervised visits in there makes me inclined to think it was more about the baby than the $.

    Not that we’ll ever really know what happened. Or that she can quit worrying. Because it’s a big company. And everything going so fast like that makes you wonder.

    But I can also see how they’d tell him to agree to whatever to keep her mouth shut.

    Since they also get $ from member’s contributions. Which might go down from Katie giving disgruntled interviews. So from their point of view just being able to put 1 exact little kid in a program wouldn’t be worth it.

    No matter how special they might’ve told him she was. It’s not like he’s their only member that’s had any babies. They can just go tell somebody else the same thing and get theirs instead.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 11:41 am

    I’m not speculating or judging any more than you are, KM. And I’m certainly not condemning Katie as much as you’re implicitly condemning Tom! All I’m doing is refusing to make a heroine out of her. I could just about believe that a 28-year-old woman could be blinded by infatuation for a movie star, but not a 28-year-old woman who had just ended a five-year relationship with someone. She had no problem telling the press that Nicole’s kids called her “mom” at a time when Nicole was being slammed in the press for abandoning them. You can say that Scientology somehow forced Katie to say that, but to me that sounds like reality show housewives blaming producers. And by the way, celebrity kids are not ever sent to Sea Org. Suri’s auditing could begin at age 6, and Katie may have wanted to stop that from happening, but the Sea Org thing was never an issue.

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    notwithoutmytv
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    How disappointed would you all be if the divorce was really about Katie and Tom waking up one morning and realizing they had nothing left to talk about?

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Have we met? Seriously-I can cite myself as an example and countless women. And how many women do you know who thought something he did was a little annoying when they were young but is now driving them crazy?
    Now how am I blaming Tom? I feel sorry for both of them. If in this day and age,a talented gay man,still has to hide his identity by marrying a variety if women as a cover,that says much about society and about the failure of Scientology to give him enough self-esteem to be himself. It’s a make-believe religion that encourages real people to give very real money and lead very unreal lives. I condemn Scientology. I have heard that Tom is a very kind,very charming,very considerate person. A real turn-off to every girl right? I remember seeing Risky Business the first time and thinking- “that young man will have a huge career.” Women always know better. Maybe Katie thought Nicole wasn’t the right woman for him. Denial-it ain’t just a river in Egypt. I don’t think Tom is evil. I think he’s the victim of a powerful cult,and by proxy,so is anyone who comes into his life. Nichole refused to join the cult and Tom recruited the kids and divorced her and took them. Next wife,he signed her up before the marriage. Fine. She was already a mother before the marriage. Maybe she thought baby trumps Scientology. But as Suri neared age 6,she saw that wasn’t happening. I’m just saying marriages are very private ,personal wars to fight .You and I and the Pope , and all the little Popettes, really have no right to judge. That’s the one thing I’m sure of.
    Not that I’m a Christian or anything but I believe I once heard something like,”let him who is without sin cast the first stone.” or something like that. Must have been an anti-Taliban campaigner.

    RattenMuter out

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Ha ha. But that surely happened after the first date? Hence, the speculation about the marriage.

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    Gypsy
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    Touche NWMTV.

    Random fact re: Tom Dunquist Cruise. When I was in LA working as a financial planner I had one of Jerry Bruckheimer’s 5 assistants as a client. We became really close, so close she came to my farewell party when I headed back east. Anyway…These were the days before he was fired from Bruckheimer’s company or management firm (someone more Hollywood can correct me) and would tell me about the pressure she would feel for having to be the one to literally push the button to open the final gate to the Bruckheimer offices at the perfect time so Tom didn’t lose his shit if he looked less than perfect making an entrance on a random Tuesday in May.

    I’ve never met the guy. I find that story actually boring as hell but, what it does tell me is how much of a control freak that guy is. I’m not saying either side is perfect or even right but good Lord, to go through all that energy to enter an office building perfectly? Can you imagine the enormous pressure he puts of the people who ‘matter’ in his life?

    No thank you.

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    I’m pretty sure they have refuted the reports about Katie stipulating that there be a nanny and members of her security present during Tom visitation. I could be wrong, but I felt like I read somewhere yesterday that it’s simply baloney!

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    sagittariuskim
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    I hear on the radio this morning that Katie wanted Suri’r exposure to Scientology to be limited, so she can make her own choice when she’s older. So if Tom’s visits are supervised it might be for that reason.

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    Mimo
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    I know how Katie feels. I’ve never spoken one word to him, but if Sam Elliott walked through my door and said “Darlin’, let’s get married” , I wouldn’t even bother to turn my computer off. My husband would be really pissed, but this is, after all, Sam Elliott.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    I don’t think Tom is gay.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    @Mimo, I understand completely. Somehow I think, though, that if Sam Elliott then jumped up and down on a couch about it you would back in front of your computer before your husband noticed you had left? But then, somehow I can’t see Sam Elliott doing that.

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    Tom is 100% gay. And I’m not saying that like it’s a joke. He is. He just doesn’t discuss it or live like that in the public eye.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    There isn’t any evidence. Correction. The evidence is that a male prostitute said he had compromising pictures of Tom and Tom sued him for libel. Other than that, people offer as evidence that he protests too much that he is NOT gay, and that someone’s cousin once knew someone who drove Tom and Nicole around one night and they both went to gay bars. Or someone knows someone who says that Robert Evans has a picture of Nicole naked in a hot tub making out with another girl. Or someone swears that way back in the day he saw Tom Cruise hanging out in a gay bar on some Strip in some town.

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    Dream on . Trust me. He’s severely light in the loafers. And I’ve been personally burned by a taller,handsomer version of Tom who made me drool for years,didn’t know he was gay when he was in college, had a successful on-air television career,and died of aids,4 years ago. Alone.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    I’m sorry to hear that, KM — for you and for him, of course. I’m not “dreaming,” as such, because Tom is pretty much the antithesis of my type. But I did get curious today as to why everyone says he’s gay, so I googled exactly that “Why does everyone say Tom Cru” and at that point google filled the rest of the question in “ise is gay” which I thought was pretty funny and it’s true that there is no evidence for it. People who think he’s gay also think that Nicole is “obviously” gay and that Thomas Gibson is “obviously” gay — it goes on and on.
    I am going on a trip tomorrow and it will be my first time on an airplane in fifteen years. So I spent the day relieving my anxiety by researching Scientology and Tom Cruise’s gayness. That is to give my response to NWMTV’s upcoming question about why the hell anyone cares about this stuff.

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    notwithoutmytv
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    Nah. My upcoming question was “How the fuck does KartofflMuter know every corner and cul-de-sac in the psyches of Tom Cruise, Nicole, Katie, Suri, and the complete motivations of both genders based simply on personal experience with half a dozen people?”

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    @maryedith- there’s evidence. I work in the industry. I have friends that have worked for and with T.C. Seriously, it’s not a big deal. It’s just not his public persona. Feel free to continue to feel as you do though, it’s what he wants for his career!

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:29 pm

    With so many people looking for it, I wonder why none of the evidence has emerged. Especially if it’s not a big deal. I thought the story among the He’s Gay brigade was that the entire Scientology machine works 24 hours a day to keep it out of the news.

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    But I should say, if you need pictures or videos to be your evidence, you probably won’t find it. There’s a certain level of respect of privacy that’s been maintained in regards to not only T.C.’s personal relationships, but others as well within the industry. People in the biz really aren’t out to “ruin” or “out” others with what could be considered scandalous evidence. He may never publicly come out, and that’s fine. He’s perfectly allowed to live his private life how he wants. I think the point is that it’s simply sad that he feels he has to be so private about it for his public persona to survive. When people say he’s gay, they’re not saying it like it’s a bad thing by the way. There’s nothing wrong with it. So no one should feel the need to “defend” him so to speak. It’s not a slight against him. It’s a fact about one small aspect of his life, and that’s it.

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    But either way, you’re right! It’s not a big deal. Gay or not, it’s his own business For the record, I’d fully support him he ever ended up publicly coming out and if not, he’s a big boy and can make his own decisions! I personally like the turn his career has taken lately and hope he starts taking on more comedic roles a la Tropic Thunder and Rock of Ages. It’s fun to be able to have fun watching Tom again. And I’ll never tire of Mission Impossibles. Did anyone see Knight and Day? That was far more hilarious than I ever expected it to be!

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:53 pm

    You make it sound like he’s gay in the same way Kate Walsh is gay. Open to Hollywood people, but not to the general public. But it’s not like that with Tom Cruise. The rumors are not matter-of-fact like that.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    You posted while I was writing. Hell yeah, I’d support him if he came out. That would be better than having women seemingly take their babies and run from him!

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    maryedith
    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:58 pm

    Tom Cruise breathes sigh of relief and plans to write coming-out manifesto now that maryedith has declared support.

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    itchy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:27 am

    I remember when Rock Hudson died of AIDS. He was the first big personality to die of AIDS and it was his death –because his identity as gay had been closely protected — that really sparked the panic over HIV and made it more than just a problem “with the gays.”

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 6:57 am

    @maryedith -I think the difference is that there are people like Anderson Cooper- who are technically openly gay in their private life and just choose not to discuss it publicly- until recently for A.C. anyways. So everyone knew, it just wasn’t a “topic.” T.C. doesn’t necessarily discuss it either way. There are those in his inner circle who know how he lives his life, but he does not prefer comments to made about how he lives his life personally or professionally. So, to each their own!
    @Itchy- I definitely remember that as well. So sad.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:42 am

    But all the Hollywood and Scientology machines put together couldn’t keep Cruise’s height from the world. And that was his real tragedy.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:46 am

    I remember Liz Taylor being totally stellar during the Rock Hudson business. She played a big part in making homosexuality acceptable.

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:51 am

    With height, he could have it all!

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    notwithoutmytv
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 8:39 am

    What the entire Scientology machine works 24 hours a day to keep it out of the news is that L. Ron Hubbard captured a sasquatch a few years before his death in which lives in ’86. The ‘squatch lives in a basement of the Camden, NJ, church. If, like Tom, you’ve attained enough OT Levels, you can go down there and play Xbox with the sasquatch.

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    SuburBint
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:16 am

    I heard this morning that Katie has officially returned to the Catholic Church and intends for Suri to be raised in that tradition.

    Isn’t Scientology very anti-gay? Like along with their anti-psychology and anti-critical-thinking and anti-being-in-the-church-unless-you-have-lots-of-money-to-give-us philosophies, they view being gay as proof of having too many thetans or not enough thetans or whatever the hell one is trying to achieve thetan-wise? I can’t think of a single celebrity who is openly gay and a practicing Scientologist (I can’t think of any Scientologists who aren’t celebrties, TBH.)

    If what NWMTV says is true, I want to move through the Scientology hierarchy as quickly as possible — playing XBox with a sasquatch is totally on my bucket list. Or it would be if I had a bucket list.

    And KM, stop dissing Christians. If I were to make the same or similar comments regarding Muslims, Hindus, Buddists, Hari Krishnas, etc., that you make in almost every one of your posts regarding Christians, Flipit would fire me for intolerance so quickly my head would spin. Every religious tradition has hypocrites; it is impossible to perfectly live up to the standards that one’s faith requires regardless of what faith that is. And the hypocrites/fringe groups are the ones that are publicized cos it is far more interesting to report on abortion clinic bombings and the Duggars than it is to report on civilized human beings who truly do their best to love their neighbors, care for the poor and hungry, and all of those other things that Jesus taught. And there are quite a large number of us out there, and you are discriminating against us when you say those things. So please quit it.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:22 am

    Yes, I read a couple of days ago that Katie had registered with a “liberal” NYC parish. They always say “liberal” no matter what site it is, which I find amusing. I think most NYC parishes are pretty liberal. And I guess they want to make sure readers don’t think she’s joining Opus Dei or something. Anyway, I say “Good for her.” And cue the discussion about how Catholicism is an even more evil cult than Scientology.

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    maryedith
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:33 am

    I’m leaving on a jet plane now. Say a prayer for the frightened maryedith. KM, mutter an atheist slogan or something. Wherever I land, Gasmi — every song I sing will be for you.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:49 am

    RE– the Scientology Hex– hhmmm Nads–hard to tell. Mimi Rogers has zero career and Nicole Kidman won an Academy Award. This could go either way— yes that’s a Ton Cruise joke.

    @KK 5– bbwwahhaahhhaaaa—good one!!! I guess Suri can wear heels now too.

    @ 53 Suburby– I heard that as well– Homosexuality is not recognized/accepted in Scientology. And you correctly state that many, many religions are hot-beds of intolerance.

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    hot cawfee
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:50 am

    OH– one more comment– was it settled quickly so as to not have a DNA test done???
    I heard that Katie used disposable cell-phones to communicate with her lawyers—paranoid or…….cautious?????? Girl wanted out !!

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:59 am

    Now why on earth would you feel sorry fory me? Pretty soon I’m going to go all passive agressive and well,,I just got a new shipment of suits and I’d like to enjoy the colors and hand stitching and beading before I go postal My gay love died years ago and I married another pretty boy 3 years later. I love pretty boys with brains. That’s my type. He wasn’t obviously gay. He was tall,brooding,Russian,and a classical music junkie and so very very private,that even though he was a television personality in the Bay Area,none of his straght co-workers knew he was gay till after he died in a hospice in Marin County. A very private man. But he let me in,for a year,when we were both in college.I still think I should have done something to help him. Something to make him feel loved by mankind. It’s not a fault to be tortured. It just is what it is. No,don’t feel sorry for me. My life is barely a fliespeck on the shitpile of life. No one will mourn my death or even notice it,especially my family. Left to lie on the floor long enough,my cat may eat me. Water brother. And I always disagreed with that sham of an old wizard when he told the Tin man, “It doesn’t matter how much you love,but how much you are loved.” After all-people are morons. I can control how much I love. You can choose to love. You can choose to be vulnerable. You can’t do anything about other people. He was,after all,a flim-flam man filled with hot air.
    As for my and my friggin’ cul de sacs-where did I claim to be an expert? OK-I’m old and I have more insurance than you. And when I used to leave the house,I met a whole hell of a lot of people in the high and low life.From Singapore to Michoacan. I’ve ridden on the Deccan Queen,dined at the Brown Derby, had lunch at The French Laundry and Bouchon twice in June, vacationed in the South of France, lived in a Schloss Tollet in Austria,was asked to be a hostess for the Playboy club when it opened in GreenBay in the dark ages (image what I must look like now ! scary ! My husband met Saddam Hussein-yes-he was bi-sexual. And the U.S. Government knew. I have a degree in theatre. That means I met people. More importantly,it means I was trained to look at every situation and ask-”why”? How did these people get to this place ? Tragedy helps to make you sympathetic as well as empathetic. Too bad having joy doesn’t work quite as well. Lol. I’ve been told 100′s of times my life sounds like fiction and I should write a book-but then who would believe it? Diamond smugglers thre me and my baby carriage into the moat when I was 1. Should I lead with that? Yup-I have empathy,for the very strangest of things,and people. And now,I have 200 positive e-mails to leave. Servus.

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    classy drunk
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 10:04 am

    Idris Elba could turn cartwheels nekkid down i-85 and I still would have no problems sticking around to marry him. To me it would mean that he loves me that much more.

    I was a fan of cool Tom (see Top Gun) and cooky Tom (see Oprah’s couch). I just expect people to get a bit weird as they get older. It’s a right of passage that I can’t wait to get to because then you get to say whatever you want and just blame it on age.

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    LAC
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 10:15 am

    classy drunk – idris elba doing cartwheels down i-85? Honey, at the last cartwheel, the justice of the peace and I would be right there, a bath towel in hand, to seal the deal. And then to the honeymoon…

    And I agree about your opinion of Cruise, especially since going over to the weird is where he is at.

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 10:41 am

    And yet-none of us has met either of them. These opinions are -Condemned. I was considerably weirder in my teens because I was the same as I am now-and I guess it’s expected of old people to go off their nut. Nut 16 year olds who try to move a fridge on the bus?

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    classy drunk
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 10:46 am

    Thanks LAC! I am glad you support this imaginary union.

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    LAC
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:18 am

    Classy, only for myself. You will have to race me to i-85 for that! LOL!!!

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    SuburBint
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:32 am

    Classy & LAC — I will arm wrestle you both for Idris Elba, and I’m not afraid to spike your drinks with Valium first so that you’re too relaxed to win. Naked cartwheels down the I-85… I have found my mental happy place for the rest of the day.

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    classy drunk
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:38 am

    It’s a fight to the finish ladies.

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    crankyguy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:45 am

    KM, you had lunch at the French Laundry last month? How was it and how MUCH was it? I’ve thought about making a reservation but have decided against it because 1) it is way out of my way, so it would have to be a destination dinner, and 2) I have heard that if you are a person of no importance (that would be me), they will cancel your reservation in your face if they need your spot for a celebrity party that just happens to drop in unexpectedly.

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    LAC
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:59 am

    SurburBint and Classy, it is on like donkey kong!!

    I had to take a peek at his facebook page – lord, yes… some cartwheels would be nice to see.

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    SuburBint
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:15 pm

    LAC & Classy — we may have to look into the whole Sister Wives thing. It also occurs to me that Idris himself might have a thing or two to say about this… that may complicate things. Oh well, I’m sure we can figure something out.

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    classy drunk
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    SB, no one really asked for his opinion but I am interested in hearing more about sister wives if we don’t want to beat the hell out of each other.

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    LAC
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    Classy!!! LOL!! Yeah, really he just needs to get on board, because that sister wives thing might just work… for us. Which is really what matters.

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    labowner
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Karto you do know he dumped Nicole right before he was married for 10 years? Stopped that pesky law from kicking in that states she gets a percentage of everything he earns for the rest of his life. His whole life is about ensuring Scientology gets as much of his money as possible.

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    labowner
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    You are bragging about eating lunch at Bouchon and the French Laundry?

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    Gypsy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    This is still going on? I’m with @Captain-sav-uh-hoe…I’ve heard he’s with Will Smith actually. sorry if it’s been posted it’s TL:DR.

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    juddfan
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 1:14 pm

    well, well, well . . . this is quite the hot bed. I just want to say, I thought we were supposed to be critical here, no matter what the facts-right!? Is it me!?

    Tommy Girl seems very high strung to me. The pictures of him kissing katie are so un-intimate and uncomfortable to look at. I’m not sure he’s gay, and I sure don’t care, but I feel like if he is gay, he is in denial of it, deep down. Naturally all IMHO . . .

    One of the scientology defectors, Marty Rathbun, has made a lot of statements about it from the inside. check it out if you’re curious. I didn’t get the impression they thought of marriage as something that people in love do, it seemed like a business arrangement, and it seemed like they try to keep couples apart. It’s been a while since I listened to it, and all these years he’s been adding to the info-a newsletter and everything.

    Oh yeah, the couch . . . anyone see “Magnolia”? He seemed to be in his “Magnolia” character for that display, he may have even jumped on couches in the movie (so he had recent practice). It was painful to watch, he was playing some butch, motivational speaker for men or something, with this flimsy pony tail. UGH. Seemed like trying way too hard.

    And speaking of Magnolia, at the time of the Oscars, Aimee Mann, a favorite artist of mine, did the soundtrack for the movie, and was on the red carpet when Tommy girl arrived. She turned to him, super friendly, to say hello, and he snubbed her something awful. Made me think he is nice while he has to work with you, but after that, he’s done.

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    crankyguy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    To give some feeble appearance of staying on topic, I should have asked if Tom Cruise is in the habit of eating at the French Laundry.

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    Jesus H Christ –Dissing Christians- seriouly? Now I know you don’t read. I’ve been quoting Jesus-you must have missed that..
    And OUT.

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    crankyguy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    Just for fun, KM, I googled “hate christians” on tvgasm and one of your posts popped up:

    “I’m 1/2 Jew/ 1/2 Catholic. Hate Christians. I have forgiven Clay [Aiken] for being one. How’s that? That’s my wedding picture up there. I married a Hindu. That’s what happens when you escape Nazi Germany. I also hate red hair and tall people and Southerners…”

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    @crankyguy– OH no you didn’t! Sheeeeiit just got real up in the Gasm’!

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    sheesh
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Sasquatch Ginger Shitkicker Wonderful Whites of West Virginia Nazi Muthafucka WAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

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    KartofflMuter
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:05 pm

    Have you ever SEEN Clay Aiken??? He’s 6″ 2″ ,has red hair, and from North Carolina. I’ll bet you don’t read directions either and flunked everything except T/F tests. Critical thinking. Not Crit-ique.
    And your little dog too.
    Hey-I love children-boiled fried or in a stew. Now fuck off.

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    Kittkatt
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:13 pm

    How did this get up to 80 comments? It’s fucking Tom Cruise, not Toddlers & Tiaras. Geez

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    zerocool
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    I have given up any hope of understanding KM’s comments. Seriously, what does Clay Aiken’s height have to do with his religion?!?

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    sarcasatire
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    Sheesh, you forgot chola humper!

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    crankyguy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:17 pm

    Critical thinking is of no help in deciphering your rambling, stream of consciousness, wall-of-text bullshit. I’ll go fuck myself now, and you go shit in your hat, you batshit crazy harridan.

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    zerocool
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:18 pm

    Okay, just re-read it. I think she just hates everybody.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:22 pm

    “Critical thinking is of no help in deciphering your rambling, stream of consciousness, wall-of-text bullshit.”

    Haha!! I tried to read a few and I swear, brain cells died in the attempt.
    I’m better off sucking the air from helium balloons. At least, then, my time is spent more productively.

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    snowshoecat
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 5:49 pm

    Poor William Faulkner is spinning at the travesty of stream-of-consciousness perpetrated by KM. Oh my. Cranky@84 I totes agree. And yes, ZeroC @85, sad but true.

    SuperB@53, your logic cannot stand before someone who knows it not. Or at least doesnt use it. Think Idris would find a way to get us to meet Sesquatch? He could do just about anything. *heavy sigh* And if not, who cares?

    Quite a few rants ago, KM, you said you had yet to meet a woman who didn’t want to change the man she married. Well, I happen to be one of those women. I married him because I liked him. Why should he change?

    Of course, the idea of becoming a sister wife of Idris Elba IS tempting.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 6:20 pm

    Part of me finds stream of consciousness posts to be hilarious if they’re intentional. We should have a stream consciousness contests! Ramble together the most random thoughts and ideas, while making us laugh, and you win!

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    captain save-uh-ho
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    @ sarcas- MAYBE just maybe, KM is the ultimate troll!! Either way, I’ve been entertained today!

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    snowshoecat
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:02 pm

    Awwwww Sarcassy, how could anyone beat what KM has already achieved? I really think all efforts would pale in comparison.

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    Classy Drunk
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    See KM is weird. Which proves my point about old people getting weird/cooky as the get older.

    And see how we aren’t bothered. We just shake our heads and giggle a bit.

    I do that with my grandma when she gets on a rant about her stories.

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    crankyguy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:27 pm

    KM’s hallmark is a strange, bitter synthesis of braggadocio and po’ mouthin’. I’ve really never seen anything quite like it.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:32 pm

    I bet notwithoutmytv could top that!

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    crankyguy
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    People who have been around here longer than I have will have to tell me if the coveted 100 comment mark has ever been achieved in the Watercooler threads or whatever they were called before the hackers attacked the site.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 8:10 pm

    @crankyguy: Newsgasms. And good question..has the 100 comment ever been reached on a newsgasm, anyone? If so, what is the battle cry?

    A Tom Cruise quote? A KartofMuter quote? Sheesh’s “Sasquatch Ginger Shitkicker Wonderful Whites of West Virginia Nazi Muthafucka WAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!?”

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    SMH
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    Nothing to add just pushing the count up. You guys are way out of my league! Could “glib” make it into the battle cry? I think Tom would like that.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted July 11, 2012 at 9:24 pm

    Yes, SMH!! I made a “glib” reference on a Matt Lauer (and Ann Curry) watercooler thread a few weeks ago. Not sure if anyone got the Tom Cruise connection, but I was self-satisfied. *smug grin*

    (Not really important except I wanna do my part to get Nads a 100-ct comment thread. Almost there people….lol)

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    snowshoecat
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:27 am

    Hope I’m not the hundredth ’cause I don’t have even a halfway decent battle cry.

    Just wanted to ask classy if by stories, her Grandma was talking about soaps. That’s what mine called them. She was devoted and nothing would keep her from them.

    Ahhhhhhhh.

    Congrats in advance, Nads. Ya done us proud. Of course we couldn’t and wouldn’t have done it without those insane rants of our beloved KM.

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    classy drunk
    Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:48 am

    @SSC, yes her soaps. The CBS ones.

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     sheesh
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 5:28 am

     I think there was a time it got to 100 comments…and I think it was a race issue which brings out the best/worst in gasmii.
     Maybe it was that time when Nads posted a pic of her in that pink ADORABLE SWEATER.

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     snowshoecat
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 6:11 am

     Sheeshy!!!! You heard the call and responded! Ya did another century gurlfriend. Good for you.

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     sheesh
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 6:15 am

     Winner winner chicken dinner!

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     maryedith
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 10:52 am

     KM — (I survived my journey, btw) — I can’t believe you twisted my comment into an insult. It was obvious that I meant I was sorry that had happened to you, and sorry that it had happened to the guy. You don’t really give a shit what people on here say to you; you just want to rant about yourself. I’m going to ignore you from now on.

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     sarcasatire
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 10:54 am

     sheesh, I remember that! It was that thread about the Duncan Hines cupcakes that were scatting and snapping their fingers! haha!!

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     sheesh
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 11:37 am

     Duncan Hines Cupcake Flame War.
     Good times…good times…
     @maryedith…glad to see your still with us.

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     labowner
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 12:15 pm

     Welcome back Mary hope your trip was fun. Didn’t Karto make a stink in the MBFAGW thread as well?

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     sarcasatire
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 12:26 pm

     labowner: Kartofmuter’s best work can be seen on a certain masterchef recap that got over 200 comments. One thing that can be said of her, she’s dedicated!

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     snowshoecat
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 1:05 pm

     Dedicated, yes Sarcassy. That is certainly one word, although many others spring to mind, none of them complimentary.

     It has been quite a while since I read 1984, but do you think Flipit has invented her to focus our baser instincts and hone our snark like the portrait used to focus hate?

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     Gypsy
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 1:32 pm

     Ya’ll is having a grand old time it looks like. Thank you!

     @snowshoecat, you can borrow my copy it’s on my coffee table next to A Brave New World and Animal Farm. Not kidding.

     To answer your question: yes I think he has.

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     snowshoecat
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 1:40 pm

     Thankyou Gypsy!!! Three of the best books ever! I also love the other classic dystopia, Fahrenheit 451.

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     Gypsy
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 1:54 pm

     Isn’t that a cologne? KIDDING!

     I had to put Atlas Shurgs down for the summer…too heavy L&F.

     Just got to give credit where credit is due this thread is up there in my top ten. Another loon has shown their ass for all the Gasm to see.

     Love it!

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     sheesh
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 2:26 pm

     I liked that no one when all “muthafucka this” muthafuckah that” like it used to.
     Or am I….

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     Gypsy
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 2:34 pm

     Yes @Sheesh this was very cereal, uh cerebral….

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     sheesh
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 2:44 pm

     @Gypsy…hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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     snowshoecat
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 3:40 pm

     @gypsy, sheesh is very cereal, sweet and kinda crunchy.

     Isn’t it fun to have our own resident nutjob? At first I thought she was merely annoying. Now I find her strangely repellant.

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     sheesh
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 3:46 pm

     @ssc…”Now I find her strangely repellant” And I’m the crunchy one? LOL!!! Why haven’t you gone to the forums yet?

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     sarcasatire
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 4:23 pm

     Gypsy, I would hardly consider Atlas Shrugged a light, summer read. lol But what do I know, I’ve never read it. I also quit The Fountainhead. Le Miz, too. You see, I root for the underdog (I even took up for KartoffMuter, once…silly me), but damned if Howard Roark couldn’t catch a break! That Peter Keating was successful while Roark was shunned because he refused to stick corinthian columns on a mediterranean villa and other forms of tackiness that results from people with money lactching onto architectural buzz words. Then Jean Valjean’s life was just…miserable!! I couldn’t take it. Even the abridged version was too long. lol

     @ssc: Have you read The Hunger Games? Dystopian and awesome!

     And like @sheesh said…let’s head to the forums…Big Brother 14 is on in a few hours. See you guys there!

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     maryedith
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 10:26 pm

     I took up for her too, in the same thread. But no more.

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     sarcasatire
     Posted July 12, 2012 at 10:30 pm

     @maryedith: Yea..KM isn’t an underdog. She’s an undertaker. Girl just can’t stop digging her own grave.

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     snowshoecat
     Posted July 13, 2012 at 6:49 am

     @sarcassy, you win!!! Undertaker. That is perfect!

     With you and our crunchy little Sheesh to guide me, I’m ready to lose my BB virginity. Be gentle.

     Now if I can just get to a damn tv set!

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     snowshoecat
     Posted July 13, 2012 at 6:52 am

     Pee ess Sarcassy, I have just taken up the Hunger Games and it is indeed awesome!!!! Didn’t see the movie cause I wanted the book first.