[John Kavanaugh]

Mike,

My wife is only half Gypsy with the other half Miami Indian...I married her because she was hot, not because of what schools she attended.  To now use her Gypsy heritage as a crutch to get my daughter into a fine school would be hypocritical...I couldn't live with that.

[Mike_Sweeney]

Mike,

My wife is only half Gypsy with the other half Miami Indian...I married her because she was hot, not because of what schools she attended.  To now use her Gypsy heritage as a crutch to get my daughter into a fine school would be hypocritical...I couldn't live with that.

I know I have said this before to you, but once again, what did those nuns do to you??

[John Kavanaugh]

I bet they have alot of tyroid cancer there...now that is funny stuff.  I know that when my Dr. told me I had a tumor the size of a golf ball the first thing I asked is if he had played golf outside of India since the 70's..no way was that thing any bigger than those old little british balls we use to love to use on windy days.  I guess those things are illegal now.

Turned out to be a benign tumor but it was a riot at the time...You had to be there.

[JeffTodd]

Is anyone else surprised that Borat was chosen for Cohen's first US movie?  If a character from the show was used I thought it made more sense to stick with Ali G.  

Turns out they've guessed right as Borat has broader appeal and many may have thought Ali was like B-Rad Gluckman from "Malibu's Most Wanted".  I see all these characters of variations of Jiminy Glick with Borat having a twist of Yakov Smirnoff thrown in.

There was an Ali G movie several years back that featured that character.

Correct. It went straight to video in the USA, and for good reason.

[John_Conley]

I bet they have alot of tyroid cancer there...now that is funny stuff.  I know that when my Dr. told me I had a tumor the size of a golf ball the first thing I asked is if he had played golf outside of India since the 70's..no way was that thing any bigger than those old little british balls we use to love to use on windy days.  I guess those things are illegal now.

Turned out to be a benign tumor but it was a riot at the time...You had to be there.

I don't make light of cancer and didn't before whatever you had and didn't before my dad was diagnosed with the stuff that would ultimately kill him.  My question for you is, aren't you the one that made light of the hellacious California wildfires that destroyed a ton of property and even claimed a few casualties?

Brushfires aren't funny, whether or not they've happened to you shouldn't change how you feel about them.

[Dan Herrmann]

I saw the movie yesterday.  My biggest laughs were actually during one of the previews.

I love SCTV-style humor..  I didn't get Borat.

[Adam Clayman]

News just hit the wire that Borat is being sued for duping some people who are in the film.

What a country!

[Tommy_Naccarato]

News just hit the wire that Borat is being sued for duping some people who are in the film.

What a country!

And more free advertisement for the film which grossed $26.375 Million from just 837 screens. If that isn't amazing numbers in movie speak, then you might as well lock yourself in a Nebraska farm house in fear of a Kazakhstan nuclear missle attack.

The movie is hilairous and it does provoke everyone, everyone of us Americans to think about ourselves--our own ridiculous ways.

Adam, Of all people who hates poltical correctness, who expounds on it daily here on Golf Club Atlas one would think you would be first in line to see the movie. Instead, you seem to not know a single thing about the movie, as well as want to hi-light the attempts of two frat guys who are just looking for a quick payday--something you would norally abhorr.

Nice flip!

[Adam Clayman]

Tommy, I made no attempt to scrutinze the news.

As for seeing it, we have our choice of santa clause three and flushed away.

What ya gonna do about it.?

[John Kavanaugh]

Jerry Lewis movies used to make lots of money too...The USA is becoming the France of our generation.

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Tommy, I made no attempt to scrutinze the news.

As for seeing it, we have our choice of santa clause three and flushed away.

What ya gonna do about it.?

Adam,
You made no attempt to scrutinize the news? YOU, of all people! ! ! Mr. Scrutiny himself!!!! I find that impossible to believe!

Adam, you've always prided yourself as the person who could spot a con in a minute--witness the Pacific Grove fiasco for example, or even your thoughts on Dismal River for that matter. You mean to tell me you can't see a frivilous lawsuit to cash-in on some fame and money with the world's #1 at the box office?

Or are you just being a bit naive to your own discretion?

[Adam Clayman]

Tommy, the con I and others spotted was that you chose to disguise yourself and create this thread.

Honestly, I heard the report and made the post on the lawsuit. It wasn't but hours later that the real story emerged about the frat boys.

However, you promoting an industry that has to be the lowest of the low, on the integrity side (and I define integrity by honoring what one contracts, especially verbally) is just too much dichotomy even for me. It is plausable that Borat and his crew could've gotten the signature on releases without fully disclosing their project.

I have ZERO opinion on this specific film, I just find someone who does so much for protecting this website would actually create a new login name, and post this drivel about a hollywood film thats not GCA oriented.(the film)

Say it ain't so Tom? Say It wasn't you who started this thread and all will be taken back.

[John Kavanaugh]

One thing I have not been able to find out about Borat in the reviews I have read is that in the nude wrestling scenes is Borat cut or uncut (you can always wear a prosthetic like in Boogie Nights)...Does this movie portray the uncut masses as ignorant...

[Steve Lang]

 

No.. just without opportunity..

[Tommy_Naccarato]

Adam,
Funny, Ran got a pretty good kick out of it.

[W.H. Cosgrove]

Looks like PC has finally made it to GCA!  And I had been posting all this time believing that it was a perfect place to be rude, insensitive, and sexist!  Darn I'm off to look for a new website!!  

Or is it that only "Gods" are arbiters of the inappropriate?  

Long Live Borat!

[Adam Clayman]

W.H.-My issue with deleting this thread has little to do with PC and everything to do with those with the authority to delete posts. So, you have it half right, if the arbitor of taste is the same one with the keys to delete, there's potential for selective rule enforcement. A clear inequity.
 That's all.

[John Kavanaugh]

Tommy,

Are you happy now that Jordan is using a Borat avitar.  Do you really believe this movie is going to educate the youth and ignorant of America...

[Jordan Wall]

Tommy,

Are you happy now that Jordan is using a Borat avitar.  Do you really believe this movie is going to educate the youth and ignorant of America...

Sure it does.

In fact, that is a weird question.

I finally understand the culture of Kazakhstan.
How is that not educating?

[Paul Payne]

With all due respect to our PC community I humbly suggest that we only throw uncut gypsies who suffer from tyroid cancer down the well. They are probably the ones who start the fires anyway. The rest should be able to live in peace among us, cut or not (although we really all hope that they are cut).

[Tommy_Naccarato]

John,
Oh, So I'm responsible for Jordan?

Why don't you complain to Jordan's parents who know doubt gave him the money to go see the movie? (If in fact it was so bad--which it isn't)

[John Kavanaugh]

Tommy,

I'm sure Jordan earned his money....I just wonder how he got in an R rated movie.  I live in a rural area where I believe the movie is going to only promote the very hate it is supposed to mock.  Jordan is a perfect example on not getting it.  Is this site better off with his quote that his sister is a prostitute.  Why should a women golfer or architect have to come on here and read that stuff...where is the education in the prostitute jokes.  Where is the genius in that.

Paul,

I thought your post was funny.  I for one though was found to not have thyroid cancer, only married a Gypsy and am in fact cut. note: I did love fire as a child and was always scared of wells.

[Jordan Wall]

John,

My Aunt loved the movie.
So did my 13 year old cousin and my neigbor who was as old as I.

If it were up to me to say something, I would say my little avator isnt half as bad as most of your posts

I cant lie though, sometimes you are a bit funny...sometimes...

[Tommy_Naccarato]

John, Here are two reviews of the film, one from Chicago, the other from St. Louis--both of them in YOUR neck of the woods.

Chicago Tribune
River Front Times

As for this weekend, you'll see that the word on the film is out. People want to laugh--thankfully!

Domestic Total as of Nov. 12, 2006: $67,840,000 (Estimate)
Production Budget: $18 million
           
TOTAL GROSSES
Domestic:     $67,840,000       63.3%
+ Foreign:     $39,300,000       36.7%
= Worldwide:     $107,140,000    

DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Opening Weekend:    $26,455,463
(837 theaters, $31,607 average)
% of Total Gross:    39.0%
Widest Release:     2,566 theaters
In Release:     10 days / 1.4 weeks

[John_Conley]

If it were up to me to say something, I would say my little avator isnt half as bad as most of your posts

Jordan, you are mature beyond your years to take a stand like this.

I can't imagine going through life worrying so much about everyone else.  Maybe I'm just selfish.  I would never think to tell someone unsolicited that they shouldn't take their teenagers to an R film.  It isn't illegal; it's parent's choice.

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