You do not need to read the Bible or be religious to understand that going to a strip club is bad for both your own well-being and the women who work there. Going to a strip club doesn't help one blow off steam, quite the opposite really. I would have no opinion on the matter, accept his mother is going on a speaking tour presumably to talk about what she did right in raising him. Well, other than the part about not respecting women...
PS: Does anyone else love it when George chimes in with his posts about how he did the same thing 40 years ago. Is there a good place to swim in Maui, I am buying a house there? George: "I swam against the entire Bangladesh Swim Federation in an all or nothing $2,500 100M freestyle in 1963 at the Ka'anapoli Rec Center..." Goerge, I really do like it when you post that stuff.
For a change? From what I've heard and witnessed...he was quite the let loose boy up there in Michigan as well.
Although, all the girls in my graduate program here in Baltimore are anxiously awaiting his homecoming haha.
Let loose in Ann Arbor is like pig mud wrestling.:lmao:
While you're at it, why not Matthew 7:1?
Gull.....there is a huge difference between judging a person's actions as opposed to the person. Huge difference!
Give me just a second and I will upload another pic of Phelps at the Palm's Playboy tower. It is one taken with another former employee of mine. Here it is ;)
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Michael Phelps discovers a new kind of buoy. :bliss:
Seriously, what's the big deal?
All my guy friends have been to strip clubs, and that Michael Phelps is probably rich enough to own a dozen strip clubs.
He has done more than all of us combined for the sport of swimming. Does he need to live the life of a saint for the rest of his life just so that the public can continue to believe what they wish to believe, that he is that innocent boy who does nothing except swimming, swimming, and swimming?
Give the guy a break. He is 23 years old and 14-time Olympic champion. He deserves to enjoy his life now and he probably can get any girl he wants. Maybe that girl in the picture asked him to put his hand on her, maybe she didn't. Who cares? It has nothing to do with the rest of us. Why do people feel like they have a right to decide or judge how he should spend his time?
I was at this club 44 years ago and I have a couple of pictures of me with a couple of bunny girls. Nothing wrong with being there. It is how you perform. www.clubparis.net/.../event_bunny.cfm
Since we are talking about Vegas, I have decided that the security there must be incredible. To the al-Queda followers, Las Vegas must be the Sodom and Gomorrah of the United States. So why hasn't anything happened there? I'm convinced it is because of the security. Perhaps people are being watched more than they realize!! Anybody else have any ideas?
Sorry, geek. I guess I still haven't tied all this back into swimming. I am curious, however, about good places to swim out there. I have a weakness for blackjack.
The only major terrorist concern in Las Vegas is at the Venetian Hotel Resort and Casino. I used to work for TAO there. The reason for the concern is that the owner of the Sands Corporation, which owns the Venetian, is Sheldon Adelson. Sheldon also happens to be one of the top 10 wealthiest people in the world and is Jewish. His wife is also from Israel. However, whenever there are exceptionally high numbers of tourists in Vegas for an event, Bellagio and others step up their security. At the Venetian, on any given day, you cannot enter the resort without stopping at a security checkpoint and there are bomb-sniffing dogs walked all over the property day and night. Oh, and Sheldon has the same Israeli bodyguard by his side day and night. Which all ties into swimming and Phelps because.....Phelps has gold medals and Adelson has gold leaf throughout the hotel of which has a 50m outdoor pool :) Oops, I forgot, Sheldon also finished the Palazzo Hotel Resort and Casino before I left Vegas in March. It is connected to the Venetian. It's supposed to have great rooftop pools too!
PS: Does anyone else love it when George chimes in with his posts about how he did the same thing 40 years ago. Is there a good place to swim in Maui, I am buying a house there? George: "I swam against the entire Bangladesh Swim Federation in an all or nothing $2,500 100M freestyle in 1963 at the Ka'anapoli Rec Center..." Goerge, I really do like it when you post that stuff.
Yes, I like it, too. I'd love to spend an evening listening to George's tales from his marathon swimming days.
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My only issue with Oprah is what was with the Cullen Jones profile. Where was the Garrett Weber-Gale profile, Miss Favoritism!!!! Grated, Jones was a part of the one of the great relay swims of all time but way too much attention on him.
Tom, there haven't been that many successful African American swimmers yet. That makes Cullen Jones a story even if there are lots of swimmers with greater accolades.
