Quote of the Day
“You know, I don’t believe you should judge a man by the worst day in his life.”
More gold:
Ten years ago, we filmed Ruby and OJ walking on Venice Beach. Before long, we were surrounded by a large, but good-humoured crowd. A man came out of the sea of faces to approach OJ, with his arm outstretched. “I’ve wanted to do this for a long time,” he said, as he shook Simpson’s hand. “No sweat, buddy,” said OJ, smiling warmly, “Do you want an autograph?” “No, thanks,” said the man, “I just want to be able to say that I’ve shaken hands with a murderer.” The smile froze on OJ’s face before he walked away.
That guy is my hero.
At this point, we were joined by a young woman called Christie Prody. She was leggy and blonde. OJ took me to one side. “I don’t want her in the film,” he said. “She’s not my girlfriend.” Later, I spoke to Christie.
“Are you going out with OJ?”
“Sure.”
“He says you’re not his girlfriend.”
“Oh, that’s just OJ.”
I asked Mike Gilbert to clarify. “He’s going out with her. But she’s not his girlfriend.”
“She looks a lot like Nicole.” [She actually does. — Patterico]
“Yeah — well, I guess that’s his type.”
In more ways than one, unfortunately:
This February, Christie Prody was hospitalised with extensive bruising and bleeding in her brain. She appeared to have been badly beaten. According to OJ, she had fallen down the stairs while drunk. According to the hospital, there was no alcohol in her bloodstream. Perhaps she is now entitled to call herself OJ’s girlfriend.
Read it all.
Somehow, someone, in the first 20 comments or so will manage to work our current president or War in Babylon into this thread.
MunDane (d3328f) — 3/12/2008 @ 5:20 pmI predict that OJ is not going to die a peaceful death. He’s going to get rough justice one day.
driver (faae10) — 3/12/2008 @ 5:33 pmWhy are you trying to divert the attention away from Bu$Hitler’s illegal war in Iraq, illegal wiretapping, starving children, famine in Africa, pestilence in Europe, inherent racism, unconscious sexism, and the fact that the world is currently boiling?
JD (626b4c) — 3/12/2008 @ 5:42 pmThat one quote was absolutely damning.
DRJ (a431ca) — 3/12/2008 @ 5:44 pmSorry, can’t read it beyond the first couple of paragraphs. Too infuriating.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/12/2008 @ 5:53 pmi don’t remember nicole having halogen headlights like that.
assistant devil's advocate (33bb9c) — 3/12/2008 @ 5:55 pmHis agent admitted that Simpson had told him the night of the murders what had happened. And yet, the agent didn’t tell the police because they never asked him.
I hope he rots in hell for that.
Steverino (2c9e20) — 3/12/2008 @ 6:18 pmNicole had tan lines on her face?
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 3/12/2008 @ 6:27 pmSctt – You are soooooo going to burn in hell for that one.
JD (626b4c) — 3/12/2008 @ 6:29 pmAnyone else think the headline at the first link is just a little passive aggressive?
I predict that OJ is not going to die a peaceful death. He’s going to get rough justice one day.
Comment by driver — 3/12/2008 @ 5:33 pm
Could be wrong, but I have this feeling he’ll die in his bed like Thomas More’s betrayer Richard Rich.
And then meet his Maker.
no one you know (1ebbb1) — 3/12/2008 @ 6:33 pmThat ought to be fun.
For THAT? I’ll burn for THAT?
Please. I had a lock on middle management of Hell years ago.
Ask me what I said about the guy that bagged my goceries a couple of weeks ago…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 3/12/2008 @ 6:39 pmScott – I am still laughing.
JD (626b4c) — 3/12/2008 @ 6:40 pmDon’t mention grocery baggers, Scott, I’m still in trouble.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/12/2008 @ 6:41 pmOut with it, Scott and SPQR. I want to hear about how you verbally abused some poor downtrodden grocery bagger.
JD (626b4c) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:03 pmWell, you are aware of how they hire “specially challenged” folks to be baggers? Well, our was VERY special, so as dad and I were walking out to the car, I muttered to him “I know they hire the mentally retarded, but we got the one that was EXTRA retarded…”
I could have bagged faster using only my freaking teeth…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:29 pmMake sure you take some sunscreen with you, Scott.
JD (626b4c) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:31 pmGood one, JD.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:34 pmReads like Scott is actually doing his practicum here on Earth…
reff (59b2ad) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:37 pmYour turn, SPQR. Can you compete with that one?
Now, I will tell a bad story about me, so Scott and SPQR will not seem so bad. We were having a particularly difficult time dealing with a “customer service” rep for United. After about a 1/2 hour of circular arguments and him reading off of a list of stock answers that really did not apply to our situation, I asked him “Short bus, or GED” ? Fortunately, he was too dense to understand the intended slur. My better half whacked me pretty firmly upside the head though.
JD (626b4c) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:40 pmI’ve often asked people if they took the short bus to school. When the give a blank look, i will often scream “Are you retarded?? I’m asking if you’re retarded on any level the state would recognize!!”
For some reason, I always end up talking to managers to get stuff solved…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:44 pmIf you ever want to cite an example of why there shouldn’t be jury nullification, the OJ case is surely one of them.
And of course, since every thing is Bush’s fault, this is Bush’s fault too 🙂
JD–I’ve flown United once. Worst trip ever, and that includes the El Al flight that stuck on the runway in Rome for four hours. They apparently have no idea what the words customer or service mean (nor, going by my experience, do they understand the terms punctuality and baggage claim.)
kishnevi (2b3e28) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:51 pmkishnevi – United makes me want to go Amtrak or Greyhound. Their customer service folks, who I believe were in southern India, must have just got a card of talking points on Baracky type airy useless things to say that make it sound like you actually give a shite about what is happening, but when you hear it, and know they do not mean it, it is the most infuriating thing you have ever heard … but, I digress.
JD (626b4c) — 3/12/2008 @ 7:59 pmWe’re allowed to say “retarded”???
PatAZ (56a0a8) — 3/12/2008 @ 8:02 pmWhen you go to a United counter and there’s no one there and you pick up the “courtesy phone” for help, that call is answered in the Phillipines. I shit you not.
Pablo (99243e) — 3/12/2008 @ 8:22 pmJD, I am not a nice person but I can’t beat Scott’s story.
With grocery baggers, my wife and I were grocery shopping a few weeks back, and I was at the end of the checkstand with the cart putting bags into after the bagger had bagged them while my wife was completing payment. I absentmindedly started repacking the bags’ contents in the cart. The young lady who had bagged them gave me a dirty look. My wife found it so hilarious, I’m still hearing about it.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/12/2008 @ 9:00 pmUnless you are a member of their 100k club (like if you take multiple trips to China as my father does), then you get someone in, I believe, Indiana…
Scott Jacobs (d3a6ec) — 3/12/2008 @ 9:01 pmAs for United, I’ve universally had bad experiences with them including our trip a couple of years ago to Prague. I thought I’d booked with Luftwaffe, but it turned out that they code-shared with United and the leg back from Munich to Chicago and home was with United while Luftwaffe took us outbound and to and from Prague itself.
That trip was pleasant outbound and back and forth from Prague but somehow United had found the exact seatpitch on a 767 that could put me in excruciating pain for the whole 8 hours.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/12/2008 @ 9:05 pmSPQR,
You flew Luftwaffe? Do they still have the black and white pictures of Herr Goering in the cockpit?
(Yeah, I’ll probably burn a little for snarkiness too.)
rockindoug (ed34aa) — 3/13/2008 @ 5:41 amHey, lay off the bag boy comments there. My eldest son is a checker at the local grocery and he sometimes bags groceries. He is a little (6’1) ray of conservative sunshine that you would appreciate.
Last night a customer told him that there ought to be a law that presidents have to go off to war with the troops. And my son smilingly agreed. “Yeah, that would be cool. Then FDR could have gone ashore on D-Day. They could have had a special ramp for him and everything.”
My son still has his job (a smile always helps) – but this particular customer has been put in his place.
Don (1bcb1f) — 3/13/2008 @ 7:54 amDon, i’ve worked as a checker before and had to bag groceries myself…
But the people they hire to ONLY bag aren’t, shall we say, rhodes scholars…
Scott Jacobs (fa5e57) — 3/13/2008 @ 8:07 amBut the people they hire to ONLY bag aren’t, shall we say, rhodes scholars…
So would it be fair to say that the personal injury lawyers are the baggers of the legal profession?
voiceofreason2 (590c85) — 3/13/2008 @ 8:27 am*nods*
Very well put.
Scott Jacobs (fa5e57) — 3/13/2008 @ 9:53 am