Bp2go's Conflict of Interest in Hat Aw ards

“Ohhhhhhhh poor Violin......... is your head still spinning?? lol... it might for quite awhile then. Then again, since the K2 or Everest (or WHICHEVER) summit we made, I know you haven't been right for lack of oxygen..... *sigh*”

“Prosecutor: Your credibility really is shrunken by the fact that you posted here and not on backapcker.com.

Say it to the guys face before you go blasting things in public.

I think Tilt was basically right.”

“Prosecutor: Your post puts a pretty paranoid spin on something pretty innocuous.”

“I posted the following on backpacker.com:

Obviously, this is a serious scandal... over ten years, kickbacks from misallocated hats - at the rate of one a month - could easily keep someone in serious trail bars for a week long trip.

But what is even more egregious is that this moderator would stoop so low as to try to provide a writer of high quality posts with further exposure? Why didn't he give the award to someone who's posts he would want to see more widely distributed and illustrated with appropriate pictures.

Who had to be bought off to prevent prosecutor from organizing a grand jury on this malfeasance.

My faith in America is blown... first Enron, now this!”

“this os obviously a conspiracy to inrich george bush's wealthy oil buddies.....”

“I don't think the Prosecutor deserves the dunce cap treatment, and I don't really want to question his integrity... I just think he's gone off the beam temporarily and needs to remove the giant bug that seems to have crawled up his ass.



Hey, we all have our moments.”

“Strat, you're like Joe Btfsplk when it comes to posting images around here!”

“i am?



uhhhm...who's joe btfpgsoc7r?


and what images?



you mean like buttbugs?”

“


Goliathus
goliatus”

“already saw the bug the first time...and that's why i said "that's gotta hurt" cause that's a really big bug...


...hey, that's a dogpatch dood....you musta been readin alot of that stuff lately tilt...i grew up 7 miles from dogpatch arkansas...but that's not me in the picture...and i don't know who spelled his last name thatta way...

and what's he got to do with images anyway? i dont post no seenking images....


I'M SO CONFUSED !”

“You're a jinx!

Every time I post an image and you post near it, it turns into a little white square with an x in the center!”

“oh yeah...uhmm.. . . . . ..well.... . .. .i uhhm.. . . . ...man, this is hard to say.. . .. . . ....i'm just gonna blurt it out.......



I DIDN'T REFRIDGERAT MY HAPPY FUN BALL!




i meant to, i swear! but i fell asleep...and when i woke up in the morning it was on the concrete steps and it had burst and i looked at the core...and ever since then, i've had this white box with an x in it problem...”

“Yo!!! Summon the royal entomologist!!!”

“~GLUNG!~”

“All this crap over a $10 cotton cap? If I were giving something away and it cost all this trouble, heck, I'd rethink my policy.”

“What's with all the "~GLUNG~"ing noises, Strat?

Now, I've never been in jail for any reason (rap sheet as long as Howard Stern's schlong, doncha know), but from the movies and TV, it kinda sounds like iron bars slamming shut.”

“Knock it off, Geo! We had some serious thread degeneration happening here!!!”

“I wasn't trying to be facetious. A grown person whining over who got a $10 cap is plain stupid.”

“lmao fatherG, we'll get out rythem going again...


tilt, lmao...it's more like a scared noise.....like when scooby doo and shaggy see a ghost....~GLUNG~ LIKE RUN SCOOB!


father g ses...get the royal entomologist...to which i replied...GLUNG!

at least i didn't reference some off the wall obsure cartoon character from the 50's . lol!”

“A grown person whining over who got a $10 cap is plain stupid."
wwwhhhiiinnn I want a hat!!!”

“"A grown person whining over who got a $10 cap is plain stupid."
Geobeet
09:07:21 AM
02/10/03

Yep, that was my point. Ergo, lampoon the thread.”

“i have more of a 'lampoon every thread' policy......”

“Yeah, but you prolly think that 'lampoon' is gettin' nookie with the light on...”

“no....it's a light that is used to spear whales.....”

“oh, we can degenerate better than that...

You know what a <RASPBERRY> sounds like? I saw Al Capp (creator of "Li'l Abner" on the Tonight Show years ago, and Johnny Carson was asking him How in the World did he pronounce this guy's name "Joe Btfsplk"??

"Oh, that's EASY," says Capp. "It's "Joe <RASPBERRY>!"


(now THAT'S trivial, LOL)”

“yeah, but i was wondering the same thing, lmao...


you have referenced that cartoon on a couple threads recently....how come? did you read an al caps book or something?”

“I have a Backpacker Magazine Cap -
It has:
"BACKPACKER MAGAZINE"
Emblazened in large letters accross the front.

I don't agree with the $10.00 value someone placed on it, and I only wear it around the house (after dark, in the garage).

Prosecutor - you really don't want one..

p.s. does anyone do day hikes in the Gila, near Silver City?”

“Are you saying only $5.98 Tahoe?

Tilt: Saw that same show. Joe Btfsplk was always a favorite of mine, along with the Schmoos and the pieces about Lower Slobovia. Al Capp was a hoot.”

“Geobeet - The decimal one place to the left...”

“wow. All this for a 60¢ hat? <G>


Kickapoo Joy Juice! Moonbeam McSwine! You should get a kick out of this, then.

C'mon Mammy! Gimme dat whammy!”

“What a hoot! There are now over 250 posts between both boards about a fricken hat. My sides hurt. I hereby nominate this topic for the Spat of the Month Award®.

Any ideas for an appropriate prize?”

“I shudder to think, LOL

Size... the Hat or the Spats?

”

“A slap to the face for everyone involved?

I think bp2go and prosecutor should settle this like men. Pistols at 50 paces, anyone?”

“Are we not men?

We are Devo.”

“all very weird. hey, is all this crossover between the Two Sides legal?”

“V-D-E-O!”

“I think prosecutor was distressed by the bad blood exhibited between cousin sites and came up with a plan to unite us against a common enemy.”

“ye gods an' little fishes.”

“i'm pretty sure the enemy is Violin.
:-D juuuuust kiddin'!

:-)”

“Youda man! I bookmarked that site. It's been too long.”

“SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is being paid $1 million a year as a consultant to a company that publishes fitness magazines, a deal critics say is a serious conflict of interest for the former bodybuilding champion.

The payments, revealed Wednesday in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are from American Media Operations, a subsidiary of the company that publishes magazines including Flex and Muscle & Fitness.

Critics say the contract is a conflict of interest because Schwarzenegger's pay comes from advertising revenue and the magazines often feature ads about dietary supplements. The governor last year vetoed a bill that would have imposed government regulations on the dietary supplement industry.

"This is one of the most egregious apparent conflicts of interest that I have seen. This calls into question his judgment as to who he is working for, and it calls into question what he thinks he owes the public," said Larry Noble, executive director for the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/14/schwarzenegger.consultantfees.ap/index.html”

“"This is one of the most egregious apparent conflicts of interest that I have seen. This calls into question his judgment as to who he is working for, and it calls into question what he thinks he owes the public,"

That's a pretty outrageous statement, Arnie doesn't decide which advertisers pay to get their products in those rags, he's been involved with them for years and years, since WAY before he became the governator. They also forgot to mention that, as part of his deal with them, they donate a substantial amount of $$ to his kids fitness program, which helps a lot of children & has for a number of years.

I'm not necessarily a big Arnie supporter, but if you're going to take a shot at him at least publish the WHOLE truth with some of the alternative views / perspectives.”

“

bp2go????????”

“bp2go is the forum moderator on backpacker.com”

“LOL! Love the cat photo, and boy was this a lively thread!”

“"he's been involved with them for years and years, since WAY before he became the governator"

seems to me that would be fine before he became an elected official, but once he did become one, he would have needed to sever that tie”

“http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/15/schwarzenegger.ap/index.html

Didn't take long to change his mind.

"Independent political observers agreed, saying the contract showed a lapse in judgment by the Republican governor."”