BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 08 Aug 13 - 10:10 AM

Okay, it just so happens I was talkin' to Tom Cruise on the phone about an hour ago. We useta get together now and then when he would be comin' through Chicago, have a couple drinks, talk about show business and crime fightin'.

So I figgered I'd call him up and tell him people are yakkin' about him on Mudcat.

"What the hell is Mudcat?" he says.

I explain to him that it's an obscure internet hangout for a buncha old cranks who used to play folk music and that they are bad-mouthin' him.

"Nothing new about that," he says. "Tell them they can all kiss my ass."

And that about sums it up. Ook! Ook!

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 08 Aug 13 - 02:03 PM

""I explain to him that it's an obscure internet hangout for a buncha old cranks who used to play folk music and that they are bad-mouthin' him.

"Nothing new about that," he says. "Tell them they can all kiss my ass.""

And you Chongo can kiss our collective arses!

"Used to play" indeed. Ignorant ape!

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Aug 13 - 02:57 PM

". . . it's an obscure internet hangout for a buncha old cranks who used to play folk music. . . ."

Chongo, that poop you like to produce then throw at people?

I suggest you produce a good, juice sample, then slap yourself in the face with it.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 08 Aug 13 - 04:00 PM

Yeah? You guys wanta settle this Chimp style? Izzat watchoo want??? Just name a time and place. We will find a nice clearing in the woods, show up at an agreed time to screech and jump up and down and hoot blood-curdling insults and threats back and forth, beat heavy sticks on the ground, and hurl rocks and stuff at each other for maybe 10 minutes or so, then we'll charge screamin' in to the attack and battle it out with hands, feet, sticks, and teeth, till the weaker side flees in terror...that bein' YOU schmucks! I will wipe up the forest floor with yer sorry asses. They'll need a shovel and a bucket to pick up yer pieces when I am done with you.

- Chongo

p.s. If you was real musicians, you'd be playin' jazz.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Aug 13 - 12:44 PM

Hell no, it doesn't matter how tall Tom Cruise is! What matters is the fucker's shoe size!

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Greg F.
Date: 09 Aug 13 - 02:29 PM

Moreto the point, does this puffed-up jackass Cruise matter AT ALL?

Answer: No.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: kendall
Date: 10 Aug 13 - 06:22 AM

I wouldn't know him if I fell over him.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Elmore
Date: 10 Aug 13 - 02:27 PM

Underrated actor. Don't care about all the other b.s.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Alice
Date: 11 Aug 13 - 11:42 AM

Tom Cruise is a promoter of an organization that uses lies and manipulation to recruit, control, and abuse people, including causing death, which has been proven in courts in the US and other countries. They have video tape and transcripts of Cruise's confessions done during "auditing" for decades, so he is probably afraid to face the truth and leave the group. Parts of Hollywood are highly influenced by $cientology, because they capture young actors in acting classes by promising them advancement in their career if they join $cientology. By his continuing promotion of the organization, he supports working people like slaves in the "Sea Org", breaking up families by disconnection, a type of shunning done by $cientology, the illegal activity of their so-called drug program called Narconon, and on and on. See the Village Voice reporter blog of Tony Ortega, tonyortega.org, go to youtube and search for ToryMagoo44 and listen to how she had to escape. Read about how a girl born into it had to choose between escape or jumping off a building in suicide, "Beyond Belief",.. there is huge suffering and even death caused by the group that Tom Cruise promotes. His height doesn't matter. His deeds that lead to suffering and death does.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Alice
Date: 11 Aug 13 - 01:23 PM

Here is a first hand account of a member of Tom Cruise's "church" who was held against his will, beaten, and captured when he tried to escape. LH, if your friend does not like Tom Cruise, this kind of thing is probably why.

Scott escapes the "Sea Org"

There are multiple videos that complete the interview of Scott Campbell.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Aug 13 - 06:06 PM

Yeah, interesting stuff, Alice. I might mention that I have never been in the least attracted to Scientology. It's always seemed like a creepy and very strange outfit to me, ever since I first saw them around in the early 70s in Toronto. I wouldn't trust them as far as I can throw an iron anvil.

However, I don't instantly judge any individual just on the basis of whether or not they are involved in Scientology...or were involved in it at one time. Leonard Cohen was into it for a few years in the 70s, but later disassociated himself from the Scientology movement.

In any case, I did not start this thread in order to provoke a deep and serious discussion of the merits or evils of Scientology. I started it as a bit of whimsical humour about fame and about why people sometimes hate famous people, nothing more than that.

I doubt that my friend is down on Tom Cruise because he (my friend) wants to save the world from the perils of Scientology! ;-) No, it's nothing idealistic like that at all. You'd have to know this friend of mine better. He's in his 70s, is a veteran of the folk music years, and he knew everyone in the scene back then...and he simply LOVES telling stories which spread dirt and malicious gossip about people, regardless of whether they are Tom Cruise or anyone else. He enjoys the opportunity to assassinate characters whenever he can. Tom Cruise is merely coincidental in a much larger pattern of behaviour which involves character assassination, lurid tales of moral turpitude, and various other forms of delicious and salacious gossip. If I'd been famous back then, he'd probably be telling some dreadful stories about me! ;-D

At the same time, though, he's a very interesting man, quite charming, very knowledgable, and he has a lof of fascinating firsthand info about stuff that happened back "in the day", although I'm not sure which stories to believe and which to take with a grain of salt.

This is just his way of having fun, you see. Tom Cruise is just one more convenient way for him to have fun doing what he loves doing...spreading the dirt on people. The fact that Tom Cruise is famous makes the dirt really WORTH spreading! It has little or nothing to do with him being a Scientologist. (Note the behaviour of the movie magazines. They follow the same procedure. If you are famous (or briefly notorious for some reason), you are in their crosshairs and can expect to receive plenty of fire.)

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Aug 13 - 06:44 PM

He may seem to be of average height in many countries.

Subject: RE: BS: Does it matter how tall Tom Cruise is?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Aug 13 - 09:15 PM

Just stopped in ta see why this thread is still on the board. Oh dear!

Tom is of average height in many countries, Ed? Well, there it is. Rather a contoversey innit?

As for the stuff about him being a fuckin fruitcake, whacked out nutjob? His camera is the witness. Great actor, tho. So was my Aunt Annabell and she was crazy as a bag a hammers! I miss her.