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Chuck Lorre once again had his Vanity Card censored by CBS. By reading the Vanity Card that did not air after The Big Bang Theory, can you guess why it was censored? Who do you think made the call? addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fseriouslyomg.com%2F%3Fp%3D9600'; addthis_title = 'Chuck+Lorre+censored+again'; addthis_pub = 'seriously';
Tonight on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory the gang has had it being Sheldon’s chauffeur, so they hold an intervention forcing Sheldon to learn how to drive. For once I feel bad for the DMV. So tune in to The Big Bang Theory at 8p for a brilliant comedy that isn’t to hi-brow to make you laugh. And stick around afterwards to find out if Stella is really the mother on How I Met Your Mother as she walks down the aisle with Ted.
BTW here is a bonus clip from The Big Bang Theory, so you can get a better idea how annoying Sheldon is…
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Enjoying an afternoon out with a friend, Nicole Richie was spotted out to eat at La Conversation restaurant in West Hollywood on Saturday (October 18).
Decked out in short-shorts with a sleeveless summery top and open toed heels, the 27-year-old Richie is currently said to be in the midst of a career reinvention - as she’s designing a line of jewelry, rumored to be working on an album and returning to TV this Monday (October 20) on the hit NBC comedy “Chuck”.
Once again one of Chuck Lorre's Vanity Cards was censored by CBS. Isn't it ironic that his Vanity Card about CBS censorship was censored by CBS. Personally I don't get what is so bad about the one that aired after The Big Bang Theory, do you? addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fseriouslyomg.com%2F%3Fp%3D9306'; addthis_title = 'Chuck+Lorre+censored+again'; addthis_pub = 'seriously';
It is officially a Roseanne trifecta as Sara Gilbert joins Chuck Lorrre and Johny Galecki on this season of The Big Bang Theory as a series regular according to TV Guide. Now the question is will David and Darlene be reunited too? addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fseriouslyomg.com%2F%3Fp%3D8887'; addthis_title = 'Sara+Gilbert+joins+The+Big+Bang+Theory'; addthis_pub = 'seriously';
Escorted by her usual driver/handler, Nicole Richie continued along with her responsible ways by attending her weekly traffic school session on Wednesday (June 25).
And there’s good news coming out of the Richie camp, as the people at NBC have announced to People magazine that the former Simple Life star will be taking on a guest role on the sitcom Chuck.
Less than 24 hours after getting married Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller were out walking their first red carpet as Mr & Mrs Sheen.
Hopefully the third time will be the charm for Charlie Sheen!
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Chuck Lorre aired this Vanity Card after Monday's Two and a Half Men (yeah I just got around to watching it today) and I wonder if I am one of the blogs he is talking about in the last sentence. I might not have learned his home address, but I wonder what he would think if he knew I live less than a mile away from where he tapes 2.5 and The Big Bang Theory… I love his Vanity Cards and his shows, but to be honest I am not interested in his home address…an interview yes, his home address no.
BTW if you have no idea why I love his Vanity Card so much check out Chuck Lorre's site for all of them and watch The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men on CBS Mondays to see what more words of wisdom he has to share with us! addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fseriouslyomg.com%2F%3Fp%3D8202'; addthis_title = 'Chuck+Lorre%27s+Vanity+Card+about+his+Vanity+Cards%21'; addthis_pub = '';
Despite retraction: "A spokeswoman for the newspaper said [Chuck] Philips, a Pulitzer Prize winner, would remain with the newspaper as an investigative reporter. She would not comment on whether any disciplinary measures had been taken." [Times]

“Comedian” Chuck Nice needs to work on his act.
The star of VH1’s Best Week Ever was in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport over the weekend when the gate attendant announced his flight to New York would be delayed. She then said everyone could board, but the plane would be sitting on the tarmac for another hour. “At that point I don’t know what came over me,” Nice told Page Six. “In a Shakespearean Old English voice, I just start yelling, ‘Outrageous! Outrageous I tell you! Brethren this is our moment, shall we be treated like cattle herded about the country? Let us rise up together! What say you?’ — and I think that it’s over and we had a laugh,” said Nice. “But it was total silence.”
Well there you go. Anyone who is a “star” of Best Week Ever is pretty much not a star. How funny do you have to be to introduce a clip of a woman falling off a swingset or a cat playing with a baby. Apparently this funny:
Simply Brilliant. It takes a true genius to make American Idol funny and entertaining. Let me introduce you to someone who actually did that. Hint: It’s NOT Chuck Nice.
The new "Kilroy was here" tag among U.S. troops involves Chuck Norris, Reuters reports. He's become something of a folk hero: "A small cardboard shrine is dedicated to Norris at a U.S. military helicopter hub in Baghdad, and comments lauding the manliness and virility of the actor have been left on toilet walls across Iraq and even in neighboring Kuwait." One tag reads, "Chuck Norris divides by zero." Well, it's literally a hellish war zone over there, so whatever keeps you sane (and pups safe), you know? [Reuters]
The boys and girls at comedy site Something Awful have written stories by "famous writers as children." The exercise starts with a sharp send-up of Chuck Palahniuk, discussing the love of humans for helpless puppies (a topic so close to us all this week). In the example below, David Foster Wallace (age 10) writes to his parents asking for a bigger allowance.
OK, so bearing in mind the fact that I have spent a pretty-considerable amount of time in what I consider "good" behavior (although by "good" I'm assuming you already have a pretty good handle on most of the ethical philosophies of like all post-19th C. philosophers-- although Hume probably isn't so pertinent; I'll leave this up to you) (By the way, this is probably also a good time to mention that my sinistral phalangeal joint is a little askew due to an unfortunate playground-slide mishap -- any dodgy penmanship or unavoidable typos sic), that is to say, not punching my sister or politely asking for more juice instead of just promoting it under stealthy cover of night-time pajama-raid, &c. &c. you may be wondering just what exactly it is I'm up to, like do I have an ulterior motive or whatever.
The rest of Wallace, with footnotes, is here. Other good ones: Terry Pratchett, Ernest Hemingway, and Jane Austen.
Hey, you know what would make a great sports trend story? Something about how all that ultimate fighting stuff is getting really popular. Gee, what will it do to boxing? Did you know Senator John McCain once called it "human cockfighting?" But now it's really popular on pay-per-view and stuff? Oh, it all goes along with the rise of mixed martial arts, or MMA to people in-the-know. You could even let some fighter guy actually kick you! It'll be great. Yes, this story needs to be permanently retired until somebody can come up with a new angle for it. Because all people really want to see is ultimate fighters getting knockedafuckout. Like so:
Remember when I brought you news last month that a book was being published full of “Chuck Norrisisms.” We had a gay old time as we sat ’round the campfire recounting our favorite Chuck Norris facts and tales. Turns out Chuck wasn’t amused. He’s suing the publisher of the book. AP says:
On Friday, Norris sued Penguin Group Inc. and the book’s creator, Ian Spector, saying his good image is being spoiled by a book that depicts him as callous and unlawful and which he says includes false “facts” that are sometimes racist and lewd. (Source)
Thank you Chuck Norris for clarifying that your tears do not in fact cure cancer and that you’re actually not the second leading cause of death in America behind heart disease. Oh and that picture of Chuck holding the entire world while stepping on a dinosaur’s head. That’s actually a drawing, not a real photo. Unfortunately I have some bad news for those of you thinking you’re gonna pull a fast one over on Chuck. That roundhouse kick of his is 100% real and 99% deadly.*
*there was a guy Chuck kicked at a karate tournament back in ‘89 who survived. He currently eats through a tube.
Esquire's thin January issue (just one feature! Actually, half a feature: part two of a John McCain profile!) has the world's most aggressively infuriating Charles "Chuck" Klosterman column to date. It has such a convincing and thrilling premise—that Klosterman can visually identify which major network a show is on because of subtle changes in color and tone and definition. Oh my God—me too! I think? I swear I can! Wait, can I? No. Because that does not exist, as Chuck then goes on talking about, with the help of some armchair semi-reporting. GRR. To give credit where credit is due, however? A+ for "[I]f you play Explosions in the Sky loud enough, the process of hanging drywall can be a life-altering experience." (Though like he hangs drywall frequently?)
You know ‘em, you love ‘em, and now you can buy a book full of ‘em. A book full of “Chuck Norris facts” officially goes on sale next Thursday. And since nothing is happening today, this counts as news. A selection of facts:
Lemme hear your best facts in the comments
The guy who founded the Duty Free shops, Chuck Feeney, 76, wears a watch worth $15, flies coach, and doesn’t own a house or even a car. You might not have heard of him because he keeps a low profile and is pretty humble about not just his wealth but his extreme philanthropy.
Feeney is living a simple life not only so others can “simply live,” but so that he can make a huge difference in the world, all without taking much credit or wanting people to notice. He went to great lengths to keep his identity secret when he first started giving away his money, and was only revealed as one of the world’s greatest philatropists when it became inevitable. He has donated more than $4 billion through a charitable foundation he founded with shares of his own company to keep his name out of the press.
Feeney, an Irish-American with dual citizenship, earned his wealth through the old fashioned desire to work hard. He is giving it all away using the philosophy that he can’t take it with him:
Rather, his frugality — the plastic bag that served as a briefcase, the drugstore reading glasses, his $15 plastic watch — stemmed from an urgent desire to take the fortune that he sacrificed years of his life making and give it, nearly every cent, away. For nearly 15 years, this entrepreneur and silent benefactor wasn’t even working for himself anymore: He had secretly transferred his share of the company that he co-founded and ran to his offshore foundation. It would become one of the biggest and most unusual philanthropic feats in history. But it came with one ironclad caveat: that no one should ever know his name.
To keep his identity secret, he went to obsessive lengths, incorporating his charitable foundation in Bermuda and attaching highly lawyered confidentiality agreements and cabal-like vows of secrecy to his foundation’s grants. After the cashier’s checks cleared, there were no black-tie galas, no self-effacing speeches.
It seemed like something out of Charles Dickens. Yet for more than a decade, New Jersey-born airport-gift-shop magnate Charles F. Feeney pulled it off, even concealing the fact of his giving from his longtime business partner. It was only when his Duty Free Shoppers was sold, in 1997, that the full extent of his largesse became clear. The shares that he had transferred 13 years earlier fetched $1.6 billion when the company was sold. Because Feeney, now 72, donated his stake in the company nearly 20 years ago, he doesn’t qualify for inclusion in our ranking, although a gift of $1.6 billion today would land him at No. 4 on this year’s list of the most generous philanthropists.
Chuck Feeney may be an extreme case, but he’s far from alone in wanting to shield himself from the public’s view. Operating alongside philanthropic superstars such as William H. Gates III and George Soros is a seldom-glimpsed group of contributors — people who prefer to remain in the shadows rather than having their names carved in stone.
[From Businessweek.com via Mercola.com]
While celebrities wear $700 shoes and carry purses worth more than some people in third world countries make in several years, Chuck Feeney realizes that those things are meaningless and that in the end we’ll all be equal anyway. He carries his papers in a plastic bag, and uses the subway. As for why he eschews material goods and gives all his money away he uses an old Gaelic proverb: “There are no pockets on a shroud.”
There’s nothing wrong with wanting nice things, or with announcing it when you do something good for others, but there’s something so admirable about people that don’t want attention or recognition for the wonderful things they do.
Feeney’s foundation is called The Atlantic Philantropies, and strives to make a difference through funding programs for disadvatanged children and for public health throughout the world.
Header image from Time.com