Best excuse ever?

[RoninX]

It appears that Brad Pitt has told Angelina Jolie he won't marry her until everyone is allowed to marry! Or so the "yahoo" front page says (honestly I never read that kind of stuff!).

However, that has got to be the best answer ever given to "why won't you marry me?" - Is there anything this guy can't get away with!?

[tehcow]

Is that really worthy of front page news anywhere? I mean, I guess some people might have an interest in his private life, but surely there are more important things to inform people of.

[ChrisBrasel]

Here in America celebrities' lives often are more important than basic life functions like eating. Seriously that sort of stuff enthralls a large part of the population. Never underestimate simpletons.

[D'Artag-NOT]

I'm just waiting for Tom Cruise to eventually come up with a reason why he hasn't married the woman he's allegedly so whim-wham crazy about. Maybe he's waiting for a cosmic OK from L. Ron Hubbard. And yes, I also thought the "I won't marry until everyone who wants to can marry" was a dandy excuse. Much better than "I won't marry because divorce is so expensive".

[Sciurus-Rex]

Media celebrities fill the same slot that governing royalty once filled in culture.

[Grendle]

Shoot, that beats all, doesn't it?
Mr.Prettyman and Ms.Silicone produce yet another celebrity bastard and are lauded to the hilt. Fill in the names of whatever celebrity you choose.
Speculation runs deep "if" they will actually marry. Not "when".
I am sickened.

[fencerchica]

Hollywood stars marry and divorce all the time; I don't think that a reluctance to marry and a flimsy excuse not to is what's going on here.

Cynically, I can't help but suspect this could simply be a calculated move to maintain the altruistic, philanthropic aura that "Brangelina" cultivate. And true, it could also help to keep some perception of them as glamorous quasi-singles, or some such PR schlock.

However, if it's sincerely meant (and I hope that it is), I see it as extraordinarily generous of them to use their celebrity visibility for good, to shine a little more light on the situation of gay and lesbian Americans who live their lives in committed relationships but aren't permitted to legally marry.

Maybe if it comes from Brad Pitt, it'll finally get through the average person who cares nothing about the news if it's not in "People" magazine. So some good could come out of it whether it's cynically thought out or not on his part. Much like Anglina's charity work abroad no doubt produces good effects, whether she does it for self-promoting reasons or out of genuine compassion. So, I guess it all works out.

[Inquartata]

Somehow I doubt that Brad Pitt's advocacy of gay marriage is suddenly going to convince all the people who are against it. It's just going to win plaudits from those who already believe it should be allowed. Preaching to the choir keeps the minister fed and clothed, but it wins no new converts.

[Zilverzmurfen]

Originally Posted by Inquartata

Somehow I doubt that Brad Pitt's advocacy of gay marriage is suddenly going to convince all the people who are against it.

Perhaps not, but we can hope.

[Inquartata]

"Hope makes a good breakfast but a poor dinner".

[RoninX]

Originally Posted by Inquartata

"Hope makes a good breakfast but a poor dinner".

I guess it all depends on how much of it you have, and how much you eat for breakfast.

[RITFencing]

I thought this was going to be a thread of outlandish excuses people have used.

My favorite (and rep who whomever can tell me where it's from): I have to wax my cat.

[Zilverzmurfen]

Originally Posted by RITFencing

My favorite (and rep who whomever can tell me where it's from): I have to wax my cat.

I have no idea, but it sounds like something that could have been said in 'Dumb and Dumber'.

[Dev]

Originally Posted by RITFencing

I thought this was going to be a thread of outlandish excuses people have used.

My favorite (and rep who whomever can tell me where it's from): I have to wax my cat.

It's from a Dilbert cartoon.

[D'Artag-NOT]

Originally Posted by fencerchica

Maybe if it comes from Brad Pitt, it'll finally get through the average person who cares nothing about the news if it's not in "People" magazine. So some good could come out of it whether it's cynically thought out or not on his part.

"The average person" doesn't make policy, and I doubt that the people who do are much influenced by Mr. Pitt's opinion.

Unless, of course, he is making major, major campaign contributions.

[KD5MDK]

Which he's in a rather better position to do (well, don't know how much Scientology has sucked him for, I suppose) than most people here.

Anyway, for best excuse heard recently; John Scalzi posted to his blog, The Whatever, that on his todo list was "tape bacon to the cat". His readers were extremely skeptical that this was true, so he called his wife and obtained permission to do so, and then posted pictures. His excuse to his wife was "I said I'd do it on The Whatever". She accepted that.

[tehcow]

KD5MDK: You may be mixing up Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. I hadn't heard that Brad Pitt was involved with Scientology, but I guess he might be.

[KD5MDK]

I was. Or more accurately, I was mixing up "guy who I can nothing about attached to woman I like seeing" between Katie Holmes and Angelina Jolie.