01-05-2007, 05:17 PM
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#32 (permalink)
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| | Re: special invite to Ride-A-Lot
MattB wrote:
> Ride-A-Lot wrote:
> > Bill Sornson wrote:
> >
> >> Ride-A-Lot wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bill Sornson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Ride-A-Lot wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> GeeDubb wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> somehow me thinks Mark Hickey or Sorni should be played by Mel
> >>>>>> Gibson
> >>>>>
> >>>>> No no no. Michael Richards!
> >>>>
> >>>> Why don't you explain that, Mitch. Please produce anything I or
> >>>> Mark has written or implied that was racist in nature. Or are you
> >>>> asserting that every person with some conservative views must use
> >>>> the 'N Word' because it makes you feel superior somehow?
> >>>>
> >>>> You're an ass for writing that.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bill S.
> >>>>
> >>>> PS: And Gary, Mel Gibson apparently has some overtly anti-Semitic
> >>>> feelings. Pretty sure Mark and I know I don't share those. HTH
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> NO. It has nothing to do with that, Bill. I am sorry if you took it
> >>> that way. It was to imply the "Deer in the Headlights" theme.
> >>>
> >>> I really did not mean to offend you and I apologize.
> >>
> >>
> >> I re-read the thread, and the only reason I can see that Gary picked
> >> out me and Mark was that we're conservatives (and not nearly the right
> >> wing zealots that's often portrayed, either). So the Mel Gibson
> >> remark wasn't really offensive because at least he's known as a rare
> >> righty in an overwhelmingly lefty land. (His drunken anti-Semitic
> >> remarks notwithstanding.) Plus of course both Mark and I share
> >> Gibson's devastating good looks and magnetic appeal to women.
> >>
> >> But for you to then suggest, "No no no. Michael Richards!" sure seems
> >> to /strongly/ imply that we're racists like he apparently is. I just
> >> think it was a cheap shot, and a dishonest one at that.
> >>
> >> I'd suggest Dennis Miller for Mark. Someone else suggested
> >> (privately) Jeff Bridges for me. I guess Robert Redford was taken.
> >>
> >> Bill S.
> >>
> >> I don't get the "deer in headlights" thing at all.
> >>
> >
> > I swear to God that the thought of racism or anti-semitism never entered
> > my mind. You know I am not like that. I was not implying anything
> > political, racial, or religious with my suggestion. I agree in
> > retrospect that it probably was not a thought out response and again I
> > apologize. I was thinking along the lines of...
> >
> > "Oh crap, what do I say now?"
> >
> > In terms of the "deer in the headlights" thing. And for the record, I
> > am probably more to the right than you.
> >
> > So if we can, please let's put this behind us.
> >
> > How about Don Knotts, if he wasn't dead?
> >
> >
>
> Or Rodney Dangerfield? Bill gets no respect! 
>
> I think Leonardo DiCaprio would have to play me. I've even been mistaken
> for him back when Titanic came out. But ~Travis (and a gay guy in the
> Sydney airport once) thought I looked like Brad Pitt. Could be worse I
> guess.
>
> Matt
I'd say you hit the nail on the head with Leo.
A few times when I was younger, I was mistaken for Nicholas Cage. I
think it was mostly a voice thing though. Keith Carradine is cool
though.
JD ol Cigarette
JD
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