Posted on 12/28/2004 5:10:05 AM PST by jimbo123
Your post is hilarious.
I saw her on Fox and Friends one morning.
She seemed genuinely "nice," and not a diva like most models.
This story does really impress me for some reason. One of the most beautiful women in the world clinging for her life on a tree during what was supposed to be a calm, wonderful vacation. Losing her boyfriend, the man who captured her beauty for the world.
What better example can you find for the impermanence of beauty and the fragility of life?
You're in a beach bungalow with one of the most beautiful women in the world, thinking that life just couldn't get any better, when WHAM! The ocean literally rises up and sweeps you away. Something Biblical about that! I would venture to say that the boyfriend died happy.
Something about "No free lunch" or maybe "Pay the Piper"?
Yeah that does suck.
LOL
Not in any junior high school I ever heard of.
44,000 persons perish and we almost lost the "services" of some skinny pinup gal?
Yeah ... I never realized either. ;)
Or it could just teach us that these overseas 'paradises' are not all they are cracked up to be...
Well, it is only a tragedy if it effects the beautiful people.
LOL
You guys don't understand modern journalism. It's not about news - it's about selling ad space. And to sell ad space you have to be read. And to get read you have to generate a buzz.
What better way to generate a buzz than to put "supermodel" in your headline and then link to FR. I don't know how many posts this thread will get, but I bet it gets over 10,000 hits today.
How many hits will all the stories about 40,000 dead get together on FR?
The author is a genius.
Shalom.
good point
" Actually, the "h" is silent, so you say "Pooh Ket"."
I heard a BBC reporter pronounce it "Foo Ket".
Either way, you have to dance around the phonetics.
Wow are we getting PC around here. Not allowed to notice anything other than the central story --- the death of all those poor folks who also happened to be economically impoverished. If in the hundreds of such stories you also notice that the event touched someone from NY, and someone with star quality, and you talk about it --- oh my god! you are breaking the rules!
Get a grip, people. This story has local interest for New Yorkers and was published in a New York paper along with a multitude of other stories about the larger, sadder event.
And if we are supposed to follow a set of rules on what's ok to talk about after a tragedy, please list them here, in detail. Please share your version of PC with the rest of us. In detail. We're all dying to know.
Or "Too good to be true!"
Her story of survival is just as interesting as the one from the Washington Post reporter who was on an island in Sri Lanka. In many ways more harrowing.
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