Didn't she say that she was too rich to be using crack?

'She called someone to ask for $100. It is so sad. She should have Mariah Carey money, and she's flat broke.'

Yeah, so sad. Poor millionaire celebrity! If you blow $100 million (especially if you blow it on crack), you don't deserve sympathy from anyone. I don't know who's worse - Whitney or the dumbass responsible for this quote.

basemetal: I never understand it when this happens. I mean, if I had that much bank, I'd buy me a nice little moderate spread in bum fark nowhere America as a place where I could become a bit of a hermit and have it paid for with enough stashed away in some accounts to just disappear and live there.

Everyone says that...it starts with your reasonable plan, but then you start to add stuff, small stuff at first, you know, maybe a nice car, you never had a nice car before, so you gotta get that...and I mean, why not a really nice one, and since you got a awesome car you gotta upgrade the modest house, nothing dumber than a flashy car in a shiatty garage, amiright? Plus, you know, safety issues of being so conspicuous, you will get marked for robbery, so in the interest of *saety* you must upgrade!

This goes on for about 10 or 15 minutes before your humble plan includes some kind of giant throne chair with twin rottweilers with diamond collars and bags of money tied around their neck.

And then you realize how it can get away from you...like Whitney ;)

texdent: Crack is whack.

Meatzilla: I'm doing my best to keep this from being a public service announcement, but it is really important to stop and think about the consequences that eventually follow when you take a drag on the doobie, snort the blow, eat the paint chips, huff the spray paint, puff on the crack pipe, inject heroin between your toes, smoke the crystal meth, breathe ether, inhale jenkum, and cut out a homeless man's adrenaline gland and/or pineal gland so you can chew on it, because rich and famous Whitney Houston didn't. Drugs are bad -- mmmmmk?

 

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A lot of hollywood actors smoke pot and they make enormous fortunes due to their beauty

basemetal: I never understand it when this happens. I mean, if I had that much bank, I'd buy me a nice little moderate spread in bum fark nowhere America as a place where I could become a bit of a hermit and have it paid for with enough stashed away in some accounts to just disappear and live there.

Ah, the American Dream. As long as you get HBO via satellite dish, you're not really out of the loop, right? Also, who needs friends, or anything to do in your neighborhood. Just go into the home theater and play video games all day. Pathetic.

Rihanna, pay attention. This is you in 20 years if you're not careful.

basemetal: I never understand it when this happens. I mean, if I had that much bank, I'd buy me a nice little moderate spread in bum fark nowhere America as a place where I could become a bit of a hermit and have it paid for with enough stashed away in some accounts to just disappear and live there.

Funny someone posted a Chapelle pic after this comment. But that's what he did. He got a payday from Comedy Central for his show and DVD sells, and bolted b/c he felt the artistic value of his humor was being watered down for cheap laughs.

he bought a farm in BFE Ohio where I think the population is like 6,000 people, and just lifts weights and plays WoW all day.

He'll occasionally do a stand up appearance, but he's become a hermit for the most part. Good for him.

Stereotype authenticated (again)

FinFangFark: basemetal: I never understand it when this happens. I mean, if I had that much bank, I'd buy me a nice little moderate spread in bum fark nowhere America as a place where I could become a bit of a hermit and have it paid for with enough stashed away in some accounts to just disappear and live there.

Funny someone posted a Chapelle pic after this comment. But that's what he did. He got a payday from Comedy Central for his show and DVD sells, and bolted b/c he felt the artistic value of his humor was being watered down for cheap laughs.

he bought a farm in BFE Ohio where I think the population is like 6,000 people, and just lifts weights and plays WoW all day.

He'll occasionally do a stand up appearance, but he's become a hermit for the most part. Good for him.

BFE Ohio is actually Yellow Springs, one of the original centers of the hippie culture. It's a 25-minute drive from Dayton.

DjangoStonereaver: Mariah Carey has done well enough on her own, but she got most of her money
from her divorce, not from her singing career.

Ummm, yeaaah.

It's not like Mariah had several multi-platinum albums, multiple sold-out tours, TV specials, etc. before her divorce...

/talk about fail

Didn't Robert De Niro contact her family/handlers asking if he could date her back when she was just about to hit the big time? They told him to get lost.

Wonder if she would have turned out differently.

Flash_NYC: basemetal: I never understand it when this happens. I mean, if I had that much bank, I'd buy me a nice little moderate spread in bum fark nowhere America as a place where I could become a bit of a hermit and have it paid for with enough stashed away in some accounts to just disappear and live there.

Ah, the American Dream. As long as you get HBO via satellite dish, you're not really out of the loop, right? Also, who needs friends, or anything to do in your neighborhood. Just go into the home theater and play video games all day. Pathetic.

Just think, if he wasn't playing video games all day he could run into charming assholes like you!

asmodeus224: basemetal: I never understand it when this happens. I mean, if I had that much bank, I'd buy me a nice little moderate spread in bum fark nowhere America as a place where I could become a bit of a hermit and have it paid for with enough stashed away in some accounts to just disappear and live there.

Everyone says that...it starts with your reasonable plan, but then you start to add stuff, small stuff at first, you know, maybe a nice car, you never had a nice car before, so you gotta get that...and I mean, why not a really nice one, and since you got a awesome car you gotta upgrade the modest house, nothing dumber than a flashy car in a shiatty garage, amiright? Plus, you know, safety issues of being so conspicuous, you will get marked for robbery, so in the interest of *saety* you must upgrade!

This goes on for about 10 or 15 minutes before your humble plan includes some kind of giant throne chair with twin rottweilers with diamond collars and bags of money tied around their neck.

And then you realize how it can get away from you...like Whitney ;)

Well I think part of it is that, in the entertainment industry, you kind of have to spend money to make money. You need to be seen out and about in order to keep up fame. Thousands of people can sing as well as Whitney did (and way more than she currently does). It's those with the "fame" and connections that get the record deals/make money. The problems arise when you still live it up after you stop working.

This is why I could never be an entertainer. I totally would just use my millions to buy a house/farm in the country and dick around. Grow shiat, do woodworking, etc.

Bo Giggity: Stereotype authenticated (again)

She's not Rick James, biotch.

if i had a hundred million dollars i'd by a frog and pay it to grow ten times it's size. then i'd ride it into my crappy job everyday and tell everyone that i want to bring back hair bands and the pet rock. after all, this world is full headphones and upside down horses just ready to be baked at 450 degrees for 3 hours. we all love chairs.

The_Homeless_Guy: I totally would just use my millions to buy a house/farm in the country and dick around. Grow shiat, do woodworking, etc.

Isn't that what Dave Shappel did? Doesn't he live on a farm in Indiana or Ohio?

/looks for violin
/gives up

DjangoStonereaver: peterthx: DjangoStonereaver: Mariah Carey has done well enough on her own, but she got most of her money
from her divorce, not from her singing career.

Ummm, yeaaah.

It's not like Mariah had several multi-platinum albums, multiple sold-out tours, TV specials, etc. before her divorce...

/talk about fail

What you fail to realize is that no matter how much money she made for herself while she was married, when she
split from the co owner of Sony Music group, she got a good chunk of his fortune. Considering that at the time
Sony was probably making at least $750 million dollars a year, that makes whatever she earned herself is the
change that fell behind the couch.

He was the head of Sony Music. Not owner or co-owner. She was making enough money by the time they were divorced not to need anything from him. Since the divorce terms were never published your statement that's how she got "a good chunk of her fortune" requires a big [citation needed].

She made well over 100 million - that was just for her record deal. She had concert proceeds, movie deals, and that stupid reality show. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of other stuff...

She just redefined the term

If I were to suddenly strike it rich, first thing I'd do is hire someone to smack me in the head if I tried to spend too much on stupid shiat.

Problem solved.

Maybe it's my lack of understanding of the drug addict mentality, but how do you blow through $100 million dollars in say, 20 years? That's $5 million a year down the toilet. How do you do that, barring just dumping it in a pile and setting it on fire?

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I'd like to respond to Whitney Houston's remark "I'm bigger than the Beatles." It makes me furious that she could even think that, let alone say it onstage. The only thing Whitney Houston has that will ever be bigger than the Beatles is her head. Come down to earth, Whitney, you're not that good.

Donna Kropkowski
Baltimore

$100,000,000 on CRACK? How much would that amount of crack weigh? Anyone? Just round it to the nearest dump truck.


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Came for this.

Coco LaFemme: Maybe it's my lack of understanding of the drug addict mentality, but how do you blow through $100 million dollars in say, 20 years? That's $5 million a year down the toilet. How do you do that, barring just dumping it in a pile and setting it on fire?

Crack makes you do some expensive and crazy things. Like Bobby Brown, for instance.

Didn't Bobby Brown have quite the drug habit too? I wonder how much money they spent collectively on their habit(s)? All those trips to Israel when they decided they were members of a long-lost-I-don't-think-ever-existed tribe of Israel?

I'd love to have, oh, 1% of her squandered millions!

She should have given me her 100 million dollars. I would have spent it more wisely.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: She should have given me her 100 million dollars. I would have spent it more wisely.

Same here. I would have spent it on meth. So much more cost-efficient than crack.

Old people have forgotten and young people don't even know that Whitney Houston was one of the best singers ever. Not only that, she was a ridiculously beautiful woman.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we need a little mind bleach.

Here's Whitney performing "Saving All My Love For You" on David Letterman in 1985. (new window)

You'll be amazed at how easily the vocal and performance simply pours out of her.

And yes, Whitney was a model in the early 1980s. I'm usually a redhead guy, but she was stunning and natural and fresh.