CNN's Anderson Cooper Admits to Being Gay

[KAWDUP]

Hey, hey, there.

Tell us how you really feel. :*)

 

[tinselwolverine]

I was even a Democrat (or at least voted that way) back then. Then I started paying income tax and everything changed. :*) Go figure!

KAWDUP, you are freakin' hilarious.

Who was it that said "if you're 20 and conservative you have no soul, and if you're 40 and a liberal you have no brain...?"

Wasn't that even somebody like Churchill, or somebody like that?

 

[tinselwolverine]

"Hello. My name is Tinsel, and I'm a political junkie."

"Hello Tinsel (meeting response)."

"It's been 6 weeks since I've watched Anderson Cooper, Bill O'Reilly or Chris Matthews."

 

[byco42]

Got an other "You look like Anderson Cooper" observation last Friday from an OR nurse. As I was about to be put under general anesthetic. Wow. No topping that one.

 

[Michchamp]

Got an other "You look like Anderson Cooper" observation last Friday from an OR nurse. As I was about to be put under general anesthetic. Wow. No topping that one.

well, at least he's not a bad looking guy...

 

[tinselwolverine]

Got an other "You look like Anderson Cooper" observation last Friday from an OR nurse. As I was about to be put under general anesthetic. Wow. No topping that one.

What's the difference between major surgery and minor surgery?

When it's your neighbor, it's minor surgery, when it's you, it's major surgery.

I'm not a doctor, but trust me, I heard that from a doctor once.

It would appear you made it through the surgery fine, and that is very good.

That ballplayer on your avator looks something like Anderson Cooper - is that you?

 

[byco42]

What's the difference between major surgery and minor surgery?

When it's your neighbor, it's minor surgery, when it's you, it's major surgery.

I'm not a doctor, but trust me, I heard that from a doctor once.

It would appear you made it through the surgery fine, and that is very good.

That ballplayer on your avator looks something like Anderson Cooper - is that you?

No surgery, colonoscopy. That pitcher is Jim Bouton. The sig is from the book Ball Four. It's what Fred Talbot says to Bouton after Talbot hijacks a taxi from him after Bouton made Talbot think he'd won some money ($5,000) from a fan who actually won $27,000 in a contest because Talbot (a pitcher) had hit a Grand Slam in a game. The telegram was a fake and when Talbot realized that, the ensuing scenario occurred.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I never realized that Jim Bouton looked so much like Anderson Cooper.

Now I'm remembering from reading that book as a kid...Bouton had been behind a practical joke on Talbot; he had forged and delivered a fake paternity suit letter against Talbot - something like that - just before the "take the next cab, you communist" story - or the two were maybe more part of the same story.

I knew I had remembered "take the next cab you communist" from somwhere, not sure I would have remembered it being from that book - but I'm sure remembering it now.

Oh, just re-read your post about that story more thoroughly - OK, yeah, it was some kind of prank.

The paternity suit prank must have been part of another story in that book, because I remember it, too.

 

[tinselwolverine]

"The closest he gets to naming names is a practical joke where a paternity suit letter from a fake New York City law firm is sent to Fred Talbot, a guy Bouton kind of hates, and the guy goes into a serious funk. Bouton didn't do it, but everyone knew the letter was coming, except of course Talbot himself."

http://lotsasplainin.blogspot.com/2011/07/stuff-i-like-ball-four-part-4-sex-drugs.html

Now, I'm remembering - the three are related. Bouton wasn't behind the paternity letter prank, but he knew about it - but Bouton was behind the $5000 from the fan prank.

After all the guys in the clubhouse let Talbot know the paternity letter is a joke, Talbot approaches Bouton and accuses him, and also accuses Bouton of the $5000 prank, and Bouton answers something like "hold on - I didn't do the paternity letter prank; I maybe had something to do with the other one - what was that one, again?"