you know of who I speak

[threeplusfire]

Most fucked up thing of the day: seeing the lovely Pro-Anorexia community, complete with a jack ass post about how someone wants to be as thin as a House Elf. Gods above, I hope that was just a nicely twisted joke. The whoel thing is rather creepy, a combination of people with genuine sadness, and that moronic brand of folk who write as if they've learned language from AOL chatrooms.

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Re: ha!

[sammka.livejournal.com]

ahhhhh. Well of course abused house-elves could be skinny, but the whole concept of people owning house-elves and thus being capable of abusing them on a regular basis is sort of outside normal canon.

See this all reminds me of that horrible quote.... who was that actress who said this? About how she would love to be as skinny as the starving children in, say, Somalia, but "without the flies and stuff"? I'm totally blanking here.

Re: ha!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Right. I wish we had some house elves here. It's not so much that I mind doing all the cooking and the cleaning, but I could use some company.

I remember that but I can't remember the actress. Some woman with 80s hair.

Re: ha!

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

The actress in question, I do believe, is none other than Brooke Shields.

Or it may have been Mariah Carey. I recall her saying something equally anti-profound as well.

Re: ha!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it was Brooke Shields. What a nit.

not exactly. . .

[calledmara.livejournal.com]

the quote came out of a satirical article on Mariah Carey from some web publication. It was then picked up by the mainstream press. But she never actually said it. Check it out here: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/carey.htm

mea culpa...

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, I stand corrected... But I do recall Brooke Shields saying something -- and not in a farcical article -- along the lines of "Smoking kills, and if you are killed, you'll lose a very important part of your life." Which may also be a fraud. But it is Brooke Shields, after all. So if she did say such, I wouldn't be at all surprised.