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- From: destiny@crl.com (David Cassel)
- Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks,alt.answers,news.answers
- Subject: alt.aol-sucks FAQ Part 2/3 - Celebrities
- Followup-To: alt.aol-sucks
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:40:32 -0800
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- Summary: Examples of celebrity appearances that went bad on America Online
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- *** FAQ (Part II - Celebrities ) ***
-
- AOL has appearances by important people.
- This is being done on IRC (especially on the Undernet). Speakers have
- included David Gergen, Frances Moore Lappe' (Diet for a Small
- Planet), Paul Martin Du Bois (co-author, The Quickening of America);
- Susan Stamberg (NPR Special Correspondent); and Howard Rheingold
- (Executive Editor, HotWired).
-
- But I like commercialism! What about when a celebrity appears on AOL?
- On AOL, most questions don't get answered, and again, questions are
- picked through by an AOL Guide. Attendance is limited to a few hundred,
- and the experience also suffers when questions are limited to the pool of
- AOL users.
-
- Here's how Scott Rosenberg of the San Francisco Examiner described
- his attempt to watch Mick Jagger's appearance.
-
-
- "I Can't Get No Interaction"
-
- You couldn't see the thick lips, and you couldn't hear the thick British
- drawl. But Monday night on America Online, you could watch Mick Jagger
- type.
-
- The online celebrity forum is an increasingly common marketing tool that
- puts a famous name behind a keyboard to take questions from a crowd of
- cyber-onlookers...It's a pretty inefficient way to find out stuff about
- the rich and famous--though it does provide the best insight yet available
- into their typing skills.
-
- Like many others, I spent the hour from 6 to 7 p.m. vainly clicking on the
- AOL "Coliseum" icon, pounding on the door to the room where Jagger was
- answering questions. I wound up with a bunch of other Jagger turnaways in
- another AOL forum, the Odeon, where Oingo Boingo bandleader and
- movie-soundtrack composer Danny Elfman was also holding an online chat.
- After curtly dismissing several questions relating to Jagger, Elfman
- finally lost it when someone asked, "What about the rumors involving you
- and David Bowie which have been repeated again and again by Howard
- Stern?"
-
- "I'm not Mick Jagger, you blithering idiot," the musician responded.
-
- [copyright San Francisco Examiner]
-
- AOL excised this exchange from the transcript they made available to their
- users. But from what's left, it's still obvious that Elfman wasn't
- having a good time.
-
-
- Question: Loved "wierd science" & "dead man's party". How about a new Oingo
- album?
-
- Elfman 1: Are you trying to piss me off or what? I just came out with a new
- Boingo album. Why the f*** do you think I'm here right now?
-
-
- Question: where should composers go who want to get their music placed in a
- film (songs/soundtrack/themes,etc.?
-
- Elfman 1: I would suggest a good long stay in a nice quiet sanitarium. Make
- sure you find one with pretty nurses and lots of strong drugs.
- Masturbation four times a day is also an excellent exercise in
- becoming a film composer. I put most of my music up my butt, not
- knowing where else to place it.
-
-
- Question: what is your favorite food??
-
- Elfman 1: My girlfriend's p#$@y
-
-
- Question: Did you invent Batman??
-
- Elfman 1: I am Batman, you imbecile. Use the freeze frame on your video
- player and you'll see that it's me. BTW, I also invented Superman
- and Spiderman.
-
-
- Question: --please answer this!!! Did you invent batman??
-
- Elfman 1: Batman was my son in law twice removed, from my first marriage --
- if you really must know.
-
-
-
- Then there was the interview with Kennedy. Like Elfman, she eventually
- got so frustrated with the AOL-ers, she typed in the following joke.
-
- VJKENNEDY: What's the worst part about having sex with an 8 year old
- girl?
- VJKENNEDY: Getting the blood stain out of the clown suit.
-
-
- Can you blame her? These were actual questions the AOL-er's asked.
-
- WHERE ARE YOU?
- I am a dork please help me- from Ha ha Ha
- What is your favorite kind of cheese?
- Kennedy Will you Be My Friend?
- What is the meaning of life?
- Are you cool?
- i think you're really a black man wearing dresses.
- Are you Regular or Extra Crispy?
- you should get a tan kennedy
- You look good in a bathing suit!
- You should mud wrestle Idalas at the Beach House!
- You should convince Daisy Fuentes to wear more revealing
- clothing on Beach MTV !!
- Will you dance naked on a table for my birthday?
- ever think of posing Nude?
- I want to lick your butt
- Do you shave your private parts?
- Hey Kennedy are you Bi?
- Kennedy how big are you under the shirt?
- uncross your legs kennedy your crushing my glasses
- Which artist gets you hot?
- I here that you and Madonna are lovers, is that true?
- DID U REALLY FLASH BILL BELLAMY TODAY AT THE BEACH HOUSE?
- THAT WUZ COOL.
-
- The amazing thing is, she answered them!
-
- Question: What is your favorite kind of cheese?
- VJKENNEDY: Gouda.
-
- Quesiton: Are you Regular or Extra Crispy?
- VJKENNEDY: I'm creamy!
-
- Question: Kennedy what do your neighbors think of you?
- VJKENNEDY: They don't speak English so it's hard for me to tell.
-
- Question: Kennedy how big are you under the shirt?
- VJKENNEDY: 42DD
-
- Question: you should get a tan kennedy
- VJKENNEDY: Why, so I can be the melanoma VJ?
-
- Question: Are your glasses subscription
- VJKENNEDY: No but they are prescription.
-
- Question: do you have a boyfrind?
- VJKENNEDY: No, I don't have a boyfriend either.
-
- Question: You should convince Daisy Fuentes to wear more revealing
- clothing on Beach MTV !!
- VJKENNEDY: Blow me you Putz!
-
-
- Penn Jillette thinks even less of AOL.
-
- These are the questions the AOL-er's asked him:
-
- Question: If you had a dog, what would you name him?
- Question: Are you Canadian?
- Question: What do you think can make us nerds any cooler?
- Question: hellllllloooo one question...what;s the largest animal you
- couldbeat up (with your bare hands) (for a collage essay)
- Question: I think the show could use a little more blood.
- Question: What's your favorite rock group, Penn?
- Question: Will I be as cool as you if I got those shelves you have in
- your office?
- Question: Understand that Penn is a grad of Ringling's Clown College. Metoo!
- Question: Was that a real bunny in the chipper shredder at the gig at
- theBeacon in NY?
-
- [The reporter with him started asking questions mocking the AOL-er's]
-
- Josh Quit: what's your favorite food?
- Josh Quit: who's your favorite beatle?
- Josh Quit: if you could be any animal, what would you be and why?
-
- [ Penn did his best...]
-
- P Jillette: I've never hit a person or animal on purpose. C'mon let's have
- some questions.
- P Jillette: Buster, the dog would be named Buster. He would be mean and
- never bark.
- P Jillette: I didn't like the Beatles very much, but John was good after
- he left. I hated Paul, that stoned ****** ****.
-
- What makes this interesting is Penn's remarks were passing through the
- AOL moderator, and AOL's Terms of Service prohibit words Penn wanted to
- use.
-
- It starts like this:
-
- P Jillette: I'll take all questions, what the hell are we waiting for.
- P Jillette: I'm in the desert and I've got a Tony Bennet concert and a
- strip show to go to. Let's get this reactor on fucking line.
-
- Question: First, what kind of cardiovascular program are you on? You are
- going to have a hear attack. Second, will I be as cool as you
- if I got those shelves you have in your office?
-
- P Jillette: I dug it. I eat 5% of calories from Fat and I'm in "The
- Zone" 35 minutes a day. My heart kicks ***.
- P Jilette: Hey, who's censoring me? I thought *** would be okay. What
- about ****?
-
-
- [ He starts doing it on purpose: ]
-
- Question: How did you decide on a career in magic?
- P Jillette: We thought since everyone ***** in magic that we could be
- noticed.
- Question: Have you and Teller ever tried to make David Copperfield
- disappear?
- P Jillette: Copperfield is in a different biz from us, he's doing magic,
- last I heard. We're kicking ******* ***.
-
- P Jillette: Josh, say ******* something.
- Josh Quit: can you do a trick for us, Penn?
- P Jillette: The computer shows get a little rougher. I say ************
- even.
- Josh Quit: levitate me.
- P Jillette: That was a private message to Josh, can't I swear to Josh?
-
- P Jillette: I loved "Lois and Clark" Great **** She has a great ****
- of ****.
-
- Question: Penn-We're worried about your health. Do you have a
- work-outprogram?
- P Jillette: WHO is censoring me! Yeah, I work out every day and I eat
- smart. I've just lost 22. But who cares? stop ******
- censoring me.
-
- Question: Penn, how about an article for WiReD?
- Josh Quit: yeah, you can say *** and ****.
-
- Question: Penn - you and Teller sure make great Christmas presents.
- Anythingneat planned for this year you could share with us?
- P Jillette: Talk to the Cubans risking their lives to live in the landof
- the free. Talk to them about Fat boy. What did you see this
- Xmas, nipple tape? How did you see it?
-
- P Jillette: Maybe you haven't read the constitution.
-
- Question: Okay, so where's Teller? Will he be doing stuff like this?
- P Jillette: Teller has done one of these before and we're going to start
- doing them often. Probably on CompuServe where they don't
- have a moderator.
-
- Amazingly, Penn's statement "Let's get this reactor on fucking line"
- appears in the transcript AOL made available online. AOL's Terms of
- Service even prohibit profanity masked by symbols, so the entire
- transcript violates their own rules.
-
- Finally, the first entry in Jennifer Finch's Lollapalooza Tour Journal to
- be made available on AOL, which she was keeping as part of a record
- company promotion.
-
- 7/9
- Hey, So here I am in Denver with an evening off with every good intention of
- writting out a tour diary ( a "log" if you will) but wouldn't you know it,
- Star Trek is on...
-
- [end part II]
-
-
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