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To: Screamname

Like a friend of mine was saying; "Why do we call them 'celebrities'? What is there to celebrate about them? They are foolish overpaid bums. Aren`t they the opposite of what we should celebrate in people? Shouldn`t we use the antonym of "celebrities" and call them "nobodies"?


I agree with you wholeheartedly!!! Not only that, but they couldn't get a real job if they tried much less live in the real world. So they suffer for their art. Right, BARF. Celebrate what? Overpaid, over rated, egomaniacs don't deserve the recognition they get.


93 posted on 02/13/2007 10:18:23 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: Bitsy

To me when I was growing up in the late 1950`s and 1960`s, a celebrity was someone who did extraordinary stuff, someone who pushed the envelope and moved humanity as a whole a step further into a better area..For example Jonas Salk eradicating Polio, which back then was like curing cancer, or the Astronauts going to the moon or soldiers fighting the commie bastards in Vietnam. Today it seems the only requirement is being born to rich parents and doing drugs. While we have 100`s of thousands of extrodinary men and women over in Iraq the press instead chooses to celebrate the wasted useless lives of pigs like Paris Hilton or Anna Nicole Smith. It`s beyond pathetic today.


97 posted on 02/13/2007 11:14:50 AM PST by Screamname (Guinness world records reports that the record for youngest living person is constantly being broken)
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