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Rick-Rolled by HuffPost

Posted on | July 2, 2013 | 19 Comments

You might think that a professional journalist would be completely immune to cheap marketing tactics, but occasionally even I fall for it.

Backstory: Last year some evil troll decided to sign me up for every single news feed at the Huffington Post. As a result, I probably get 30 or 40 different e-mail pitches a day, including some in French and Spanish. I haven’t bothered to cancel the subscriptions because (a) I’m lazy and (b) occasionally I find good blog fodder from the stuff (although I try to avoid linking HuffPo unless I have to).

OK, I hadn’t checked my e-mail in a while and was skimming through when I saw this subject line on an e-mail from HuffPo Lifestyle:

’90s Supermodel Poses Topless

Celebrity breasts don’t usually impress me much. In fact, at age 53, I’m not easily impressed by breasts in general. This isn’t to say I don’t enjoy breasts, but at some point in a man’s life he realizes that the variety is not infinite and . . . Well, breasts are breasts. The fact that a particular pair is attached to somebody famous, so what?

Nevertheless, (a) if this was some kind of “celebrity scandal” angle, it might be good for blog traffic, and (b) hey, it’s got to be more interesting than Valerie Jarrett talking health care. Given a choice between Valerie Jarrett and “topless supermodel”? C’mon.

OK so I click link and it’s Elle McPherson on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, “topless” strictly in the sense that she’s not wearing a top — with her (predictably implant-enhanced) breasts discreetly hidden — rather than “topless” in the sense of Show Me Your Boobies.

But if you want to see a really nice pair . . .

 

Category: Huffington Post

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19 Responses to “Rick-Rolled by HuffPost”

  1. Lockestep1776
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:51 pm

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  2. MrEvilMatt
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:51 pm

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  3. Citzcom
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:51 pm

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  4. jwbrown1969
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:51 pm

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  5. PATR2014
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:54 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Rick-Rolled by HuffPost http://t.co/rM5njbViMQ #TCOT

  6. preciseBlogs
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 10:55 pm

    Rick-Rolled by HuffPost http://t.co/XIKrq9rcgO #news #conservative #huffingtonpost

  7. rsmccain
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:01 pm

    Redheads? Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, IYKWIMAITYD. http://t.co/X7XAYGQSsb

  8. richard_mcenroe
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:05 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Redheads? Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, IYKWIMAITYD. http://t.co/X7XAYGQSsb

  9. BobBelvedere
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:18 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Redheads? Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, IYKWIMAITYD. http://t.co/X7XAYGQSsb

  10. BobBelvedere
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:19 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Rick-Rolled by HuffPost http://t.co/rM5njbViMQ #TCOT

  11. John Rose
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:45 pm

    Why implants? She was such a beauty, why mess with it? =(

  12. CrustyB
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 11:59 pm

    This story’s a bust.

  13. thatMrGguy
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 12:39 am

    Rick-Rolled by HuffPost http://t.co/JvwgTCGtIf

  14. Good Stuff
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 1:27 am

    quote of the day “Well butter my breast!” – Paula Deen

    Celebrity breasts usually impress me. In fact, at age 55, I’m easily impressed by celebrity breasts. On Pinterest I had a board with over five hundred famous boobs. However, Pinterest remove my board yesterday. Assholes!

  15. DaTechGuyblog
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 9:04 am

    A sad day in a man’s life @rsmccain ” In fact, at age 53, I’m not easily impressed by breasts in general.” http://t.co/4SJNg49z4q #aging

  16. K-Bob
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 4:34 pm

    Pretty much applies to all of them.
    When I see a “supermodel” face in makeup, all I really notice is the surgery.

  17. Rich Vail
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:45 pm

    Geeze, you mangled some memory cells w/that video…so much so I dug up several more:

    http://thevailspot.blogspot.com/2013/07/never-gonna-give-you-upthenand-today.html

  18. Rich Vail
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 6:46 pm

    The Bastards! Removing mamary memories should a a federal crime (why not everything else is!)

  19. Good Stuff
    July 3rd, 2013 @ 9:18 pm

    yeah, the pinko commie bastards! I am not going to do something stupid. Pinterest is great for google juice and hits – Number one best seller – http://pinterest.com/goodstuffsworld/gan-lulu/