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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4324
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 01:09 pm: | 
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Oh. My. Gawd!!!
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Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8134
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 01:28 pm: |
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How timely! I was just about to post this reallly bizarre thing that happened to me over the week-end! A while back, I fired off a letter to Oprah, never expecting my rant to be given any attention and then out of the blue, I receive a phone call from a member of her staff asking me if I would be interested in coming on her show and confronting Oprah about my complaints, most of which had to do with her book selections and African schools and pat fomulas for success. Can you believe this? The staff member said that Oprah wanted to not only give equal time to her critics but to give herself an opportunity answer these detractors because they are becoming more vocal and she thinks they are judging her unfairly. I'm not sure when this taping will be but I will get back later with the details. Still reeling! |
Mony
Newbie Poster
Username: Mony
Post Number: 50
Registered: 02-2006
Rating: 
Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 01:37 pm: |
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Give her hell Cynique! |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4325
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 02:16 pm: |
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Do we get free tickets??? 
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Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 2201
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 02:23 pm: |
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that looks like samuel jackson in drag.... |
Steve_s
Regular Poster
Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 243
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 05:34 pm: |
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Cynique,
I just finished the latest Oprah book, The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Although it might be a perfect read for a teenager or someone who doesn't read that much (and then again, you might give them The Martian Chronicles or Of Mice and Men instead) -- I just can't believe how the critics have fawned all over this book, which has got to be one of the most highly acclaimed novels of recent years, albeit one of the most simplistic and least challenging books I've ever read.
SPOILER ALERT In the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse, a man and his 10 year old boy head south along "the road," encountering and avoiding bands of marauders and scavenging for canned goods in abandoned houses. When they find a ham, for instance, the narrator says something like: It was rich. And good. And that's about it!
END SPOILER
A lot of the dialogue goes like this:
We have to go, the man said. We can't stay here.
Where are we going, papa?
I don't know.
Okay.
If that kid had said okay one more time, I would have smacked him. I'm telling you, I've never seen such drama over a can of corn. I've only read one other book by Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, which won the National Book Award in the '90s, although it didn't do anything for me.
Maybe Oprah should just set up direct wire transfers into Cormac's bank account.
http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/mccarthycormac/road
PS You should read it. Don't take my word for it. |
Mony
Regular Poster
Username: Mony
Post Number: 51
Registered: 02-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 06:54 pm: |
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I'll take your word for it. Why does she mostly promote these books (the few times I've been aware of these promotions), that are full of angst and suffering of some kind. Does she promote books from different genres, such as scifi or non fiction? |
Doberman23
Veteran Poster
Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 941
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 11:10 pm: |
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cynique if you happen to be on the oprah winfrey show you must do 2 things.
1. let er' body know before it airs
2. mention to oprah that i will be her kept man for a solid year. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4326
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:36 am: |
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Dobie - Can't you read? Oprah is really a man!!! |
Eastwest
Regular Poster
Username: Eastwest
Post Number: 181
Registered: 12-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 09:18 am: |
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Oprah has the right to do WHAT EVER
SHE WANTS WITH HER MONEY.
People can critize her all they want
BUT GUESS WHAT? IT'S HER MONEY. |
A_womon
Veteran Poster
Username: A_womon
Post Number: 1453
Registered: 05-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 09:32 am: |
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Cynique, I know we don't like each other, ok, we DESPISE each other...But money talks and bullshit runs a marathon!! So here's the deal I'll give you a percentage of the millions I'll make if you hold my book up while the camera is on you! HA!!HAHAHAHAHA!! You could even cuss me out and call me names while you're doing it! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA!
Oh, boy I Just Crack myself up in this place!
Didn't you already do this a while back? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8135
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:41 am: |
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Boy, didn't March just fllllllllllly by and before we know it! It was April Fool's day! |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4327
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:15 am: |
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Yes Ma'am, time sure does fly! It's going on three years since I left fed govt to work my business full-time. Well, to stay home and act like I was working full-time.
And I'll give you a percentage of my millions if you'll let me temporary tattoo my web address on your forehead. LOLOLOL!
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Chrishayden
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4020
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:08 pm: |
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I receive a phone call from a member of her staff asking me if I would be interested in coming on her show and confronting Oprah about my complaints, most of which had to do with her book selections and African schools and pat fomulas for success
(Stay strong! Don't let them set you up. Tell her that you are not alone in this, but you gots plenty of company--
Watch. Cynique will fall to her knees, grasping the O's hand and squealing "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"
At least get you some free donuts from the green room. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8137
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:10 pm: |
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Sorry, Mzuri. You shouldn't have posted that picture of Mr. Winfrey. It gave me that lame idea for an April Fool's joke. snicker. Now what?? |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8138
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:15 pm: |
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Wrong, Chrishayden! Were I to ever appear on Oprah's show, I'd try very hard to raise my shackled wrists and tear the duct tape off my mouth so I could rant. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4024
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:19 pm: |
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Hey Cynique:
Seriously now.
Last night laying up in a stupor, I heard this old Gospel song that went "I hear somebody crying. Crying in the street" (it went on about praying, etc).
Do you remember this song and who did it? It was probably out in the late 40's early 50's. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8140
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:41 pm: |
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Sorry, never heard of the song. Gospel music wasn't a staple in the places frequented by sinners like me in the 1950s. While drinking our communion wine, we'd be diggin Jazz and Doo-Wop. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4328
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:44 pm: |
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You must redeem yourself by ranting to Harpo Studios about how we think Ms. Uppity is a snobbish phoney boar (and a bore too) so that you can get on her show.
You WILL be sporting my tattoo
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Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4329
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:45 pm: |
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Chris - Why don't you search the net for the title of that song. It's not that hard. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4028
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:53 pm: |
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Chris - Why don't you search the net for the title of that song. It's not that hard.
(I thought since I was here with my own people, people who are all the time talking BLACK and AFROCENTRIC and AFROFUTURISTIC and sh*t, I wouldn't have to go to MR.CHARLIE to learn about my musical heritage.
I was wrong.
The pain. The pain. |
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