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Re: Time magazine is also on my list
[quote name="I need clarification"][quote name="Fussbett"]My mom always buys the Time magazine Year-in-Review edition, I suspect mostly because she likes reading them 10 or 20 years later. It's like a magazine savings bond. So I'm flipping through it, and it's interesting enough, and then I get to a famous quotes page. <i>"Like omigod, I have to tell the maid to buy diapers and get the pool boy to walk the dog? Can't I just make out with Kevin all the time? Being married sucks." -- Brtiney Spears to Allure magazine.</i> Seeing as it's the most hilarious self-parodying quote I've ever read I assumed I've read it incorrectly. After confirming the words by reading it twice or even thrice more, I hit the internet to see more of this awesome Allure interview. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45536-2005Mar17.html" target="goog">My very first Google search</a> showed me that it was a parody interview, picked up and instantly retracted by the news outlets. Back in March! What else am I going to see in Time magazine, a story about how you shouldn't eat pop rocks and Coke? In other horrifying news, the city of Los Angeles is suing Take Two for a share of the profits of San Andreas. <a href="http://news.com.com/LA+sues+maker+of+Grand+Theft+Auto/2100-1043_3-6032169.html" target="dfsdfs">http://news.com.com/LA+sues+maker+of+Grand+Theft+Auto/2100-1043_3-6032169.html</a> [quote]The civil suit seeks a portion of the company's profits from sales of the game, in addition to fines. It's part of an ongoing investigation by LA into the marketing of video games. [/quote] They're looking into the marketing of video games. A guy takes home a stack of magazines every night and flips through the ads. "Suck it WHAT?! WHAT it down?!??!"[/quote] See, the problem is that Take Two apparently marketed the game as an M title, which is age rated at 17+. Taking into account the Hot Chocolate content of the game, it actually SHOULD have been given an AO rating, which is to be sold only to 18+. So, it's clear that Take Two was grossly imperiling the emotional well-being of every 17 year-old in Los Angeles. It's hard to put a price on this sort of malfeasance, but using highly specialized math, Rocky Delgadillo arrived at $10 million.[/quote]