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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:34 AM
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MICHAEL PHELPS IS IN HOT WATER…
Stop the presses -- an athlete has been caught smoking pot!! This is news?!? I say, he’s just a kid!! We’ve all made mistakes. Leave Michael Phelps alone!!! (After you listen to this parody and send it to everyone you know!!)
See “Because I Got High: The Ballad of Michael Phelps,” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK09SS0zYHg

See more parodies at http://parodyandson.blogspot.com
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mucifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:37 AM
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1. This was pot, not speed. I'd think it would slow him down.
Besides the potus smoked quite a bit of pot in his high school days. It's all there in his autobiography. Legalize the stuff already and tax the crap out of it.
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:45 AM
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6. They're all in the video...
Bush, Bill, and Barrack. Wow, man, that's three B's in a row. And Bong starts with B. Freaky...
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:01 AM
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11. Maybe...
he smokes before he swims, then he gets the munchies and swims REALLY fast so he can eat something sooner!!
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Chisox08 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 10:10 AM
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17. That would stimulate the economy
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 05:11 PM
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21. Whatever it takes!!!
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:38 AM
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2. that's our priorities go after an Olympic champion while
people like Bush and Cheney are walking around free, what total BS!!
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:17 AM
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36. They should've smoked more weed!!!
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:39 AM
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3. Damn! I wanted to see him naked in a hot tub.
:(
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:43 AM
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4. T M I !!! (LOL)
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:46 AM
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7. I, myself, do not.
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 09:23 AM
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35. With that Speedo he wears...
...it shouldn't take too much imagination...
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:44 AM
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5. Yeah this is a non-story to me.
Now if someone would've videoed some of the sex parties at the Olympics I'd say that would be newsworthy. Rather than painting one person as immoral (his sponsors certainly must have to drop him like a hot potato) the entire event would be seen in a whole new light. That's not something the Olympic gods would take kindly to. To me that merits a headline or two.
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:46 AM
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8. Agreed...
That was kina the pint of the video. To make light of it. Check out my blog to see my take on it. parodyandson.blogspot.com
Not sure what the big deal is, other than having some fun with it.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:56 AM
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9. I'm sorry but I disagree.
I almost called my local sports talk jock about this the other day.

He's a big time right winger constantly interjecting his politics into sports. So last thursday he's throwing a fit over 'the media hounding Michael Phelps and ruining his career'. It was the usual two faced hypocritical bullshit. "Hey it's Michael Phelps," "It's only pot."

It's always the same shit. When its a friend or a relative, when its someone you know or a star athlete then it's no big deal, 'it's only pot'. When it's someone you don't know and don't give a damn about then it's against the law and tough cheese for him.

As long as it's against the law then hang Michael Phelps the same as any regular Joe Blow. And if people don't like it then change the fucking law.
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 08:59 AM
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10. The problem here is...
...the only "evidence" they have is a picture. That's usually not enough in marijuana cases. How doe we know what was in the bong. There is usually pocession involved.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:16 AM
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12. Whether there's a case against him or not is one thing.
That's not the point.

I'm just sick of society's duality when it comes to the gravity of Marijuana laws. We're all suppose to be equal under the law. If it's no big deal in Michael Phelps case then it should be no big deal period, no matter who's involved. But somehow even the anti drug crowd can always blow off an offense if they want to. The whole 'blame the media' for Phelps troubles angle just pissed me off. It's not the media that's the problem. It's the ridiculous law that's the problem.
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polmaven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 05:25 PM
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23. Well, there is also his admission...
and apology. We know it was pot because he admitted it. A public admission could probably be considered to be evidence.
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:07 PM
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29. You may have a point there...
Good thing I'm not a lawyer!!!
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cbc5g Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:21 AM
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13. Getting high isn't "a mistake"
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:49 AM
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14. No...getting CAUGHT is...
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 09:56 AM
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15. And getting caught shouldn't be a mistake. Pot should be legalized.
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 10:02 AM
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16. Touche!!
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demokatgurrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 10:39 AM
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18. Why is it a "mistake"?
The only mistake I see is not being smart enough to know who his "friends" are who would photograph him and sell the photo.
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Butch350 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 10:50 AM
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19. Right Answer!
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 12:44 PM
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20. Agreed...
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 06:59 PM
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27. I didn't see your post, but I said the same thing below.
The marijuana prohibition in this country is just idiotic.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 05:13 PM
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22. No, He's in Bong Water
:smoke:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 05:30 PM
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24. He's 23. A LEGAL adult. What next, saying David Vitter is a baby and should wear diapers?
Whoops, bad example...

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.... callchet .... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 06:14 PM
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25. Make pot smoking mandatory training for USA Olympic Athletes.
Look what it did for Phelps. Most Gold Ever. Don't even joke about taking his pot away.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 06:58 PM
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26. I don't even call it a mistake,
at least not the pot-smoking. The mistake was letting the media get hold of the photo.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:46 PM
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28. he's a kid? I had done four years in the military when I was his age
but I agree about the pot thing - I don't friggin' care if he smokes pot
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NoSheep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:09 PM
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30. Now Let's deny it!!! Let's pretend great athletes could not possibly smoke pot!!!
Otherwise how could they be great athletes??? Cancel the contracts! Let them eat cereal!! Denial Denial Denial
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:19 PM
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31. Nothing like a little pot talk...
...to get DUers going!!!
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:38 PM
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32. It probably wasn't a mistake.
I don't think it was a mistake anyway. I wish he could just say 'big deal' and not ruin his career.
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 11:48 PM
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33. At least he didn't cheat, like a-roid.
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thincaboutit Donating Member (329 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:57 AM
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34. You mean like half od the league!!!
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