Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have wed, People magazine reports.

[onehandle]

In a Big Yellow "News Alert" banner at cnn.com

This is apparently..."news".

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Reaction

:boring:

[NVMojo]

2. a big yawn is right!

[Eurobabe]

3. Woopdie shit, Europe has more trash here this weekend

t/n

[ClintonTyree]

4. Great...........

it's over. Now maybe the media will SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT! Two egomaniacs get married and the entire earth awaits with bated breath. :eyes:

[Radio_Lady]

17. Cute. Your comment says "bated" (as in baseball bat) not BAITED!

I got a good laugh out of that!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

PS. At least little Suri isn't a bastard anymore!

[jane_pippin]

18. I don't get your joke.

Bate v.:
"1.to moderate or restrain: unable to bate our enthusiasm"

Bate, Idiom:
"with bated breath, with breath drawn in or held because of anticipation or suspense: We watched with bated breath as the runners approached the finish line."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bated

Baited, v.:
"To place a lure in (a trap) or on (a fishing hook)."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/baited

Batted v.:
"To hit with or as if with a bat."
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/batted


Also, hooray to Suri's new, non-bastard status. :)

[Radio_Lady]

20. Jane, you caught me with my verbal pants down! Here's the problem, defined..

From: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm

BATED BREATH
From Steve Gearhart: “Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: ‘I am waiting with baited breath for your answer’?”

The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers. Examples in newspapers and magazines are legion; this one appeared in the Daily Mirror on 12 April 2003: “She hasn’t responded yet but Michael is waiting with baited breath”.

It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it has the meaning “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”. So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing through terror, awe, extreme anticipation, or anxiety.

Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice: “Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this ...”. Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.

For those who know the older spelling or who stop to consider the matter, baited breath evokes an incongruous image, which Geoffrey Taylor humorously (and consciously) captured in verse in his poem Cruel Clever Cat:

Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.

[rocktivity]

5. ..

:boring:
rocknation

[Drum]

6. Now the Rapture can begin.

:tinfoilhat:

[Robbien]

7. It is sad that this thread is in LBN

Doesn't deserve the honor IMHO.

:shrug:

[madmax]

8. Ahhhh, who cares

:boring:

[Human Torch]

9. Did either of them have a bowel movement today? What about Suri? Have they had lunch yet?

The good news is that unless they decide to renew their "Katie needs a comb and a frying pan and a cat" vows, or they get divorced and then remarry, this can only happen once.

:evilgrin:

[terrya]

10. Tom is doing his bit for the sanctity of marriage...

by marrying wifey number 3!! Yay!!!!!!

[Bullshot]

11. WHO GIVES A FUCKING RAT'S ASS?!

This "marriage" will be done in less than 2 years.

Why is there so much ogling over something this superficial?

[Deja Q]

13. Oy! I don't care where Katie and Tom want it in...

And it's "news" because this surely dispels any and all myths suggesting that Tom is "hungry for sausage"...

[Nomad559]

12. Why was this nonsense posted In

"Latest Breaking News"

:eyes:

[LibDemAlways]

14. The local officials in Italy are saying it's basically a farce.

"TomKat" never bothered with the official paperwork. He must be paying her huge $$ to along with this sham, and the media is eating it up. Such crap.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. Is Wolf live in the Situation Room?

I hope Jack just finally punches his square in the face today.

[Spinzonner]

16. Oh, my life is complete now

[Scooter24]

19. In other news, last night was the Victoria Secret fashion show

For those not in attendance, it will air on Dec. 5.

[Yukari Yakumo]

21. Maybe they'll shut the f' up about them.

Much like everything else in Hollywood, it's a sham wedding anyway.

I'll bet splitsville in 1 year.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

22. I'm delighted the Scientology wedding is over

Now we can go back to normal bs, such as Britney Spears' divorce. What's sad is that Americans are more into this crap than into knowing how Republicans have damaged their country.

[Homer Wells]

23. I am Soooooo looking forward to the

upcoming festive Divorce of the Decade to be held in Monaco, starring the happy Cruises

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[firefox_fan]

24. idiots.

Wanna bet they'll divorce within the year?