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Terpgirl,

we channel-surfed through a few minutes of the goiter queen. I firmly believe that is never a good thing when you can see the whites of someones eyes all the way round. It gets worse. She stole from several stores, her defense was, well, she paid it all back. I suppose because she was forced to. When she tried to make sense of her twisted impulses, and talked about her precious wedding and how much her friends meant to her, with the groom next to her, I just thought she is so full of shit, her eyes weren't brown enough.

posted by Blanche. on June 23, 2005 at 7:08 PM | link to this | reply

Man! I'm with you on all of that!

I swore I wouldn't talk about it, write about it, etc. She's an attention monger. I've said over and over regarding all the recent blogit wars (which sounds like a 2nd grade phrase to being with), negative attention is still attention. I responded in respect to one crazy blogger who went off on me, and I just boosted the goof's ratings for sure. Then it was the water cooler thing just like you were saying. It was like a game of rumor. When the person went nuts on me, another person wrote in "sort of" about whatever the issue was, but by the 5th person's comments, it was water cooler hysterics. It wasn't even real enough to make a reality show. How scary is that?

I learned my lesson for responding to the first bunch of craziness. Another blogger just mentioned me by name and went into a seriously crazy rant on something she knows nothing about. Just as with this runaway crazy, I wanted to go nuts and rant from the outset. I did so much better this time. I didn't respond at all, and the person's stuff pretty much withered and died, as it should have. This would be bride keeps getting air time, and she'll keep talking. What's her incentive to shut up?

There are people in this world who do anything to get attention---they use people's identity and trade on all the publicity the mere mention will bring (as we always see here with Ariala), they use the time and energy of decent, well-meaning people like all those service workers and volunteers who trolled looking for that warped runaway girl. People actually worried about her..that's what makes you want to smack her. I really had to debate whether to write about this at all. You hate giving her that extra 2 minutes of fame since it's what she really wants and this is the only way she's going to get it.

I certainly hopes someone clubs me before I start trading on someone else's name or using some contrived means to get my name in print.

posted by terpgirl30 on June 23, 2005 at 7:03 PM | link to this | reply

I wrote a few things on the Runaway Bride in my What Country Am I In?

blog. I was all for her making restitution, making recompense for the time and effort (and money) spent looking for her irresponsible, silly, shell-shocked-looking ass. But now she is appearing on "exclusive" interviews, getting book deals. It's sickening.

I also wrote this in one of my posts: Can't you just see Fox Television execs salivating over the idea of a reality show about runaway brides (and grooms)? They could call it, "When Half Isn't Good Enough" or, worse, "Brides That Hide and Grooms That Slide."

Or even worse versions on UPN or WB. And if this crap isn't bad enough, the really pathetic thing is when people want to rehash this debacle of self-involvedness in the break room at work, like trying to figure out this Georgia moron's motives is going to somehow alter their own lives for the better with a little coffee and pop Dr. Phil-esque psychoanalyzation.

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Terpgirl,

I wrote a few things on the Runaway Bride in my What Country Am I In?

Usual Beat Me to the Punch!

Only in America.