Let Britney Teach You About "Antigone"- Page 3

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 5:48pm

uh, tiff, have you got me on ignore?

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 5:50pm

Okay, she spelled Creon and Antigone correctly, but she screwed up "loses"? WTF?
And I love that at one point, the teacher crossed out a word and just wrote NO in its place. That's what I felt like saying as I read it.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 5:59pm

For Britney...
A Bit O' Grammar

[aspen]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 5:59pm

"Did I really just say "Britney" and "literary criticism" in the same breath?"

Do you really speak out loud when you're typing? I thought that was only done in made-for-TV movies =)

Just wanted to add that, from one who is currently being shunted through the U.S. public school system, this sort of paper is pretty average. I've completely given up on the "peer editing" exercises in my English classes, correcting only major spelling/capitalization errors.

A teacher actually took three points off my last paper because, according to her, "dissociation" isn't a word. In addition, the mention of such obscure concepts as epistemology, combined with a reference to some guy Kant's book Critique of Pure Reason signalled that I had plagiarized a large amount of the essay from some online source. Because God forbid teenagers put forth the time and effort to actually think about something. They're just a bunch of lazy materialistic brats who have wild orgies and eat prescription drugs like candy. Er... sorry /end rant

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 5:59pm

Oops. Of course not, papa! I just saw your response. I should have known you'd be on the same smutty page as me!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 6:02pm

"Brit Brit, please follow P!nk's lead, at the very least."

I think she heard you, Cheno.

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=129465

(scroll down)

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 6:05pm

yeah, sm2 i posted it earlier. it didn't last then either.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 6:11pm

Damn it! Sorry, papa. I haven't been on today. That's what I get for putting work above BWW.

Updated On: 11/30/06 at 06:11 PM

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:10pm

I disagree with the statement that K-Fed is less deserving of fame than Anna Nicole. At least he was smart enough to know that by knocking Britney up, he'd have more of a claim to the money than Anna Nicole ever did.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:24pm

There is that, skittles, but there's also that Anna Nicole made her own money to start with - she was a very famous model for Guess as well as Playboy back in her day.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:36pm

I have the same problem, Aspen.

I'm constantly getting accused for plagarism and other crap...

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:53pm

But there's a difference between fame and notoriety. Anna Nicole was influential enough to be a TrimSpa spokeswoman - people admired and apparently wanted to her to a certain degree. And that makes no sense to me. Federline isn't respected or admired (except maybe in the trailer trash pimp world).

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:55pm

I don't think people ADMIRED her, certainly not at that point, but they did see that she lost a crazy amount of weight.

That was the appeal of her as a TrimSpa spokesperson. We had seen her be large for a long time.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:59pm

Eh. I think becoming famous because you married an old billionaire says just as much about the sad state of current pop culture as becoming famous becuause you married a trashy pop singer. Just that Anna Nicole's made a career from that and *hopefully* Federline will fade away.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:02pm

She was famous before she married him.

Marrying him made her infamous.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:06pm

I wouldn't call her famous...she was in Playboy and Guess? and she was a stripper when she met him but she wasn't anymore of a household name than Kelsey Grammar's Playboy model wife is. (Who?)

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:07pm

papa, what are you doing on justusboys.com?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:08pm

No, Tiff, she made a huge splash with those Guess ads, as well as with her Playboy spread.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:14pm

None of which were high energy, though, if they'd been high energy her success would be completely understandable.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:15pm

Well, duh.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:16pm

I'm looking her up on Wikipedia and you might be right - it says she became famous in the early '90s with her Playboy and Guess? ads. My mistake...I guess it was because I was so young in the '90s...too young to have any recollection of B-list porn stars...

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:22pm

She didn't just marry an old billionare, Tiff. She married an old billionaire that died within a year, then sued his children (who were older than her) when she didn't inherit his fortune.

Having a Playboy spread doesn't make someone famous. Name this August's centerfold. Name last year's Playmate of the Year. 99% of America wouldn't know who you were talking about and even the readers of Playboy probably wouldn't recognize the name.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:24pm

Okay, skittles. She wasn't famous. It was all my imagination playing tricks on me in those crazy days of the early '90s.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:33pm

OR we're all celebrity/pop-culture whores who know more than the normal, well-adjusted human being would. (And I group myself in this category nowadays.) I mean, who the hell IS Kristen Cavalleri??

[StageManager2]

Posted: 11/30/06 at 8:34pm

wonderwaiter: It was I who posted that link.

Updated On: 11/30/06 at 08:34 PM