I'm all verklempt. Mel Gibson crashed his Maserati.

[KamaAina]

:sarcasm:

:nopity:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonline/20100816/b195449/

Mad Max this wasn't.

Just a few days after returning home from a Fiji fishing vacation with his sons, Mel Gibson crashed his Italian sports car into a Mailbu hillside....

(Maybe Mel's just distracted by the deposition he's due to give in his no-holds-barred custody battle with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva and the separate domestic violence probe set to wrap up any day now.)

[UTUSN]

1. Well, actually, he and the BP dude have nowhere to go but (deleted)

"Croesis" means something. It means not all the cash/gold can buy (whatever). I'll Google the spelling.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus


Croesus (pronounced /ˈkriːsəs/, CREE-sus; Greek: Κροῖσος) (595 BC – c. 547? BC) was the king of Lydia from 560 to 546 BC until his defeat by the Persians in about 547 BC.<1> The fall of Croesus made a profound impact on the Hellenes, providing a fixed point in their calendar. "By the fifth century at least," J.A.S. Evans remarked, "Croesus had become a figure of myth, who stood outside the conventional restraints of chronology."<2> Croesus was renowned for his wealth — Herodotus and Pausanias noted his gifts preserved at Delphi.<3>

In Greek and Persian cultures the name of Croesus became a synonym for a wealthy man. Croesus' wealth remained proverbial beyond classical antiquity: in English, expressions such as "rich as Croesus" or "richer than Croesus" are used to indicate great wealth. The earliest known such usage in English was John Gower's in Confessio amantis (1390):

That if the tresor of Cresus
And al the gold Octovien,
Forth with the richesse Yndien
Of Perles and of riche stones,
Were al togedre myn at ones...<4>

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[Aristus]

4. Another eyebrow raising story about Croesus:

Croesus was such a vainglorious king that he wanted to cover himself with military glory by invading Persia, the most powerful empire in the world at the time.

So he consulted an oracle, who told him: "If you attack Persia, you will destroy a great empire". Taking this to mean certain victory, he invaded Persia, and was promptly trounced by the matchless Persian army. His empire was crushed, proving the oracle correct. Croesus simply heard what he had wanted to hear, that it would be a "slam-dunk". Paving the way for the clumsy, incompetent would-be king and boob par excellence, George W. Bush.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Why won't Jesus do him a solid?

I mean, sheesh, he made that movie about J.C. and all, you'd think his messiah would help him out a bit.

[flvegan]

3. Jesus wouldn't drive a Quattroporte.

[UTUSN]

5. I can't explain. I'm not an action-dude. & few movie artistes have made me follow them.

& NICHOLSON didn't do it for me as he did with my generation of "Easy Rider." Yet, Cuckoo's Nest and The Last Detail and several other NICHOLSON things did.

Then, I'm not a movie buff, yet the ones I've seen are Mel in Hamlet. And Mel in Braveheart. I wasn't crazy about The Patriot. I saw the Passion JUST because it was a political topic.

But I've GOT to say that Apocalypto is one of the most magnificent things I have ever seen.

And it is a TOTAL mystery to me how somebody who can do THESE things can do OTHER things.

[Gold Metal Flake]

6. Quattroporte: The Crown Vic of Masers.

[old mark]

7. Was he drunk again? What ethnicity/religion did he villify this time?

I noticed several of his older movies on TV last weekend...no longer watch any of them. I am wondering if there are enough people boycotting his movies that the TV big shots notice the
ratings are down...


mark

[crim son]

8. Yeah, that sux, don't it?

:bounce:

[Common Sense Party]

9. Mel's turning into Lindsay Lowlife.

He's self-destructing before our eyes.

[mtnester]

10. Wonder if all his recent acitivity has put him on Death Pool Dave's radar

it has been a while since I have been overe there, probably need to visit