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Title: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: Shockeye on May 04, 2005, 03:19:36 PM Quote from: AP Radio Station Sells Spears' Home Pregnancy Test? (http://www.wnbc.com/entertainment/4450449/detail.html) POSTED: 5:26 pm EDT May 4, 2005 NEW YORK -- Online casino Golden Palace has shelled out $5,001 for what may be Britney Spears' home pregnancy test. Then again, it may not be. Golden Palace says it bought the test from a Canadian radio station (Ottawa's Hot 89-9). The station claims to have gotten the test from the trash outside Spears' Los Angeles hotel room months ago. The station did not say anything about the test until Spears announced her pregnancy last month. Golden Palace spokesman Drew Black said it's not certain it's really Spears' test. However, when casino officials saw it was up for grabs, he says they wanted it for their collection of oddities. The casino also owns a sandwich that resembles the Virgin Mary, and a haunted cane. What about paying more than $5,000 for it? "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine," Black said. Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: WayAbvPar on May 04, 2005, 04:17:06 PM I want to know WTF Golden Palace.com is getting their money. Either they run the crookedest casino on the planet, or they have some VC folks who are going to be mighty disappointed at the next meeting.
Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: Abagadro on May 04, 2005, 04:47:39 PM I think they have a great marketing department. Think about it. They are an online casino (so you know they are raking it in with little overhead and drooling morons dumping the college fund into there). They find things that they KNOW iwill get spread around the net and media as OMG LOOK WHAT GOLDENPALACE.COM BOUGHT. So for a lousy 5 grand or 20 grand or whatever they get their name out (which is their only product) to millions of people with a high curiosity factor. That's chump change in marketing costs. It's genius.
Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: Viin on May 05, 2005, 08:00:41 AM And it works pretty good.. I've played there once or twice. Not a bad place, but as with any computer controlled gambling, when I start to lose (8 times in a row!!!) I think it's cheating.
Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: HaemishM on May 05, 2005, 08:35:29 AM A casino stacking the deck in favor of the house? SAY IT AIN'T SO! :-o
Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: Abagadro on May 05, 2005, 08:47:29 AM I doubt they cheat because they really don't have to. Pure probability will mean they come out ahead so why risk your reputation in the market.
Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: Viin on May 05, 2005, 09:05:08 AM I don't think they do either, but who's to say they don't? Even if it's just .0005% of the time, they *could* and no one would could prove otherwise.
At least when you are playing with a real deck and a real dealer, you can give someone a bloody nose when you lose 10 times in a row. When I play online the only thing that gets broken is my keyboard. Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: Sky on May 05, 2005, 01:09:01 PM I was watching the Seymour Butts 'reality' show the other day. Hey, I like the boobies.
You gotta see the nice server rack (no pun intended) that guy has in his office, go go pr0n IT! Title: Re: "It's hard to put a price on Britney Spears' urine." Post by: Abagadro on May 05, 2005, 04:43:22 PM I think those were just VCR dubbing machines.
BTW, it's been pretty funny watching dudes totally flame out in trying to be porn stars. Who'd have thought it would be so tough to bang hot chicks on demand. |