On Feb 6, 4:25*pm, PeterL > wrote:
> merryb > wrote in news:2e8b0f15-74ad-4a32-9168-
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> > On Feb 6, 4:05*pm, PeterL > wrote:
> >> "Nancy Young" > wrote in news:Me2jl.1308$Cr4.274
> >> @newsfe26.ams2:
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> >> > merryb wrote:
> >> >> I'm so disgusted by the treatment by Kelloggs towards Michael
> Phelps.
> >> >> He made a mistake by letting someone take a picture of him while he
> >> >> was taking a bong hit, but this is ridiculous! It didn't enhance his
> >> >> performance, and it had nothing to do with his swimming abilities. I
> >> >> guess it's the image thing, but still, I'm boycotting Kelloggs.
> >> >> Kelloggs is a food manufacturing company, so I didn't label this as
> >> >> OT...Do any of you agree with me?
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> >> > No doubt his contract has a moralities clause. *All he had to do
> >> > was keep his nose clean. *In this day and age, anyone with a
> >> > camera can take your picture, he was a fool for thinking it
> >> > wouldn't get out. *I don't feel sorry for him, it stinks but it's not
> >> > like he'll be broke any time soon. *He's poorer and maybe a
> >> > little wiser.
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> >> I read an Anthony Bourdain interview recently where he said that when
> he
> >> was younger, he was a hard drinking, dope smoking hell raiser. Now he
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> >> a family and a career, he doesn't 'do' public drunkeness or illegal
> >> substances because A) everyone has a camera, and 2 mins after something
> >> happens, it's all over the Internet, and B) he doesn't want his kids to
> >> look at it and say "Well, dad does it, so it's OK for me to do it."
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> > Lucky him...
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> Do you see the correlation between A) and B)???
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> Probably not, so I'll point it out for you.
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> Kids look up to their "hero's" and do what they do, say what they say,
> etc, etc.
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> Have you got grandkids about the age of 12+??
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> Would you like them to take up smoking dope because 'their hero Phelps
> does it'?
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> --
> Peter Lucas
> Brisbane
> Australia
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> Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are.
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> Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

No, but I have kids. If they decide to smoke as adults, then that is
their choice. I have a 22 year old that has never even tried it...