[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I') would be lying if I said that I am surprised about the dehumanizing of Anna Nicole Smith after only what, an hour???

[Dreamtwister]

Someone around the world commits suicide every 40 seconds, and we're supposed to get all misty-eyed when some Hollywood douchebag does it? What about the farmers killing themselves by the hundreds in India? You know...people who actually contribute something? Where's their 24-hour CNN coverage?

Pardon me for not caring. In fact, I encourage more useless Hollywood meatsacks to spike up.

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I')t's a sad story. Her 20-year-old son died back in September and I can gurantee you that her suicide is a direct response to that tragedy. Despite all of the jokes we all made about her while she was alive, we should at least wait a day before mocking the dead.

I would be lying if I said that I am surprised about the dehumanizing of Anna Nicole Smith after only what, an hour???

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'S')he married an old billionaire here in Houston. Old oil money.

She was a dancer at Ricks... (or so I have heard )

Then he passes, & he leaves her everything.

The son sues & suelarity ensues...

Now everybody's dead... the old man, his son & her son & now poor Anna.

[cynicalheretic]

It's a conspiracy, look at whoever was due to recieve the money after her death. I think maybe it was the Trimspa comercial, she promised them her money if they made her skinny.

[Daculling]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'I')t's a conspiracy, look at whoever was due to recieve the money after her death. I think maybe it was the Trimspa comercial, she promised them her money if they made her skinny.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MacG', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I')t's a sad story. Her 20-year-old son died back in September and I can gurantee you that her suicide is a direct response to that tragedy. Despite all of the jokes we all made about her while she was alive, we should at least wait a day before mocking the dead.

I would be lying if I said that I am surprised about the dehumanizing of Anna Nicole Smith after only what, an hour???

[TITAN]

Big fucking deal.

people that actually matter die every second and not a word is spoken of it...

I'll miss her tits, though...

[Stratovarius]

Ya this shit replaced Richard Dawkins appearing on CNN with Paula Zahn in reponse to that horseshit panel discussion.

Couldn't she have died like tommorrow or something?

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TITAN', 'I')'ll miss her tits, though...

[emersonbiggins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TITAN', 'I')'ll miss her tits, though...

[Laughs_Last]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'I')t's a sad story. Her 20-year-old son died back in September and I can gurantee you that her suicide is a direct response to that tragedy. Despite all of the jokes we all made about her while she was alive, we should at least wait a day before mocking the dead.

I would be lying if I said that I am surprised about the dehumanizing of Anna Nicole Smith after only what, an hour???

[Daculling]

I predict she will lose more weight.

[Arkwright]

Just as my favourite fortuneteller told
http://briansprediction.com/pri/SEPT2006wk4.html
(around middle of the page, well, 6 months can be considered very soon)

[Benzin]

I would agree with folks about not caring just because she was a celebrity and all, but sometimes ya need a good distraction.

Kinda like when each of us found out about this little mess we got ourselves into. First it hits then you wig out for the next couple weeks... the usual stuff: denial, fear, anger, etc. A good distraction was nice to get out of that initial rut. Hell, does anyone here NOT need a distraction every now and then? Until TS actually HTF sometimes it is okay to think about something else for change, even if it is temporary.

It'll be on the radar screen for a bit and people will forget like they do about everything else. We'll be back to the daily bad new of Iraq, climate change, taxes... Think of it like a punch in the head to soften the blow before hitting the curb whilst riding in a shopping cart.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'S')omeone around the world commits suicide every 40 seconds, and we're supposed to get all misty-eyed when some Hollywood douchebag does it? What about the farmers killing themselves by the hundreds in India? You know...people who actually contribute something? Where's their 24-hour CNN coverage?

Pardon me for not caring. In fact, I encourage more useless Hollywood meatsacks to spike up.

[Zardoz]

The coverage today was bizarre. It was the biggest story in the world for a while.

Must-See Tragedy TV: The Anna Nicole Smith Story

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')elcome to the Anna Nicole Smith feeding frenzy — live on a TV, newspaper, magazine or Web site near you.

When news broke Thursday afternoon about the 39-year-old's sudden death at a Florida hospital, the mania exploded and just kept building.

Wherever you looked, news was interrupted for wall-to-wall coverage of the tragedy. There was Anna — vamping on the cover of Playboy, stumbling down the red carpet, grieving over her son's tragic death last summer, playing with her newborn daughter, entering the U.S. Supreme Court, goofing on her reality show.

"I don't think I've heard such breathless reporting since Katrina — 'Maybe she had a heart murmur,' 'What's going to happen to the child?'" said Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. "This turned into something out of control. It's as if editors on the desk at news networks were thinking 'If we don't have it, viewers will switch to MSNBC.'"

Some observers questioned the news value of the coverage. "I was at the gym yesterday afternoon as CNN flashed their "Breaking News" of Anna Nicole, and I had this moment of "And this is news how?" said Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at the University of Michigan.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nna Nicole Smith dead

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', 'P')ardon me for not caring. In fact, I encourage more useless Hollywood meatsacks to spike up.

[TheDude]

Wait a minute, her lawyer and boyfriend was named Howard K. Stern?

Cheney's going to leave the country on the 19th - my birthday!

Tommorow Ahmadinejhad's going to let us know about Iran's nukes!

The talking heads will obsess on this oh-so-important "human interest" story.

"Three US soldiers killed, four wounded in Iraq."

Those monstorous cannisters are timeless, though. Hardwired into our brains like lusting after sweet food.