That’s bad enough, but the bigger embarrassment is actually Paige’s, which came just after he told the young kids, “I’m the only one in the room that I know of that’s professional enough to carry a Glock. Never mind that in 2004 some misguided Florida children’s group invited Lee Paige, a 45-year-old Drug Enforcement Agency officer, into an auditorium with a loaded gun to demonstrate weapons handling. Guns Don’t Kill People, They Just Blow Off a Toe or Two (Don’t miss “ Deansane in the Brain.”) 2. A sheepish Dean dropped out of the race days later after the episode received heavy TV airplay. No one can be sure whether Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign speech completely killed his chances of winning the Democratic nomination (he’d just finished third in the Iowa caucus), but the infamous “Dean Scream” has become a political cautionary lesson as infamous as Michael Dukakis’s “Snoopy” appearance in 1988.ĭean gave a passionate speech reeling off the states he would soon conquer, and then, overcompensating for crowd noise, punctuated the affair with a yell that was part rodeo call, part slasher movie sound effect, and part yodel. I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Howard Dean
Women are known to engage in a little private chitchat in the ladies’ room, but how would they feel if the conversation was broadcast on CNN during a presidential speech? When newsreader Kyra Phillips made a pit stop, she unfortunately left her microphone on, broadcasting the news that her sister-in-law was a “control freak,” among numerous other pronouncements. At least the company had a quasi-excuse: It had just gone bankrupt and was in receivership. Laying off 2500 people means bringing in an army to provide loss counseling, job placement programs, a pile of severance checks, and a truckload of tissues to stem the tears, right? Not! In 2003 British Amulet Group “ made redundant” thousands via an SMS text message sent en masse to employees’ cell phones. As they were obviously cropped into odd shapes, it didn’t take long before admirers started to wonder what had been cut out of the pics.
Cat Schwartz had some professional photographs made of herself and posted them on her blog.
Meow!Ī little Photoshop can be a dangerous thing. The company’s apologies fell on deaf ears: AOL is currently being sued over the matter.
AOL removed the data, but only after it had been well mirrored, searched, and reported on. Turns out folks were looking for the usual stuff: American Idol, Britney Spears, cheap plane tickets, and a whole lot of porn. The release was intentional, part of a horribly misguided research project to give academics a data set to see what people were searching for online. When AOL posted the search records of 658,000 subscribers (ithe names were redacted and replaced with a unique number), the company couldn’t even fall back on the “It was an accident!” excuse. Putting as Much of America Online as Possible The pose even earned Tribett his own YTMND Web page. Whether Tribett intentionally chose gold to match his “Warriors” t-shirt or whether the color just makes for a good high remains a mystery but his overall look, which recalls a child who has ploughed headlong into a birthday cake, is mortifyingly priceless. The Smoking Gun pretty much dedicates itself to showing people during their most humiliating moments, but the celebrity mugshots of James Brown, Nick Nolte, and Yasmine Bleeth have nothing on poor Patrick Tribett, who was nabbed for “abusing harmful intoxicants,” namely huffing gold spray paint.