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by Carlo Longino




Michelle Kwan Has A Posse

from the slow-news-day dept

With the Winter Olympics drawing near -- wait, are we allowed to say that? -- apparently it's newsworthy to report that several Olympians have online fan sites. Of course, the article glosses over the most interesting part, that there's an 800-strong group called the Michelle Kwan Guardian Angels "who vow to love and protect the American figure skater from bashing in chat rooms or message boards". Didn't Tanya Harding have something sort of like that?

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    Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 1:54pm
  • 関穎珊

    by dorpus

    Should her name be spelled properly, as above? Her first name means "Fenced Ring".

    Or should there be a new olympic sport for long-distance snipers to shoot these pompous birds on ice, hmmm....



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    • Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 2:28pm
    • Re: 関穎珊

      by byox

      woah take it easy.

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    • Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 2:41pm
    • Re: ŠÖ‰nŽX

      by Anonymous Coward

      ya...chill man....u can make it a nu sport if u wanna....but i don't shoot sniper style @ human birds....regular birds ya....but u take the fall in w/e country its in...

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    • Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 3:31pm
    • Re: ŠÖ‰nŽX

      by Tyshaun

      Wow, some anger management issues to work through!

      Interesting, never heard of something like that, a group of people organized to go out and defend and idea/person on the internet. There's always been suspicion that some advertisers/companies have done this to "generate buzz" but never heard of it for an individual.

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    • Feb 11th, 2006 @ 7:35am
    • Re: ŠÖ‰nŽX

      by tyuoi tyib

      shut up

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    Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 3:19pm
  • Michelle Kwan

    by Henry Lague

    I love Michelle Kwan, she's a telanted skater and a beautiful woman. she can have my protection anytime she wants. I'm at her service. :)

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    • Feb 13th, 2006 @ 8:03pm
    • Re: Michelle Kwan

      by Anthony Herrera

      Michelle, I have enjoyed watching you skate throughtout the years and I hope to see more of your skating. You now have an injury that requires that you step down and not compete in the 2006 winter games. Everyone is pulling for you to get better and don't think for a minute that your career is over. Keep up the good work all your fans are pulling for you.....

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      • Feb 21st, 2006 @ 2:52pm
      • Re: Michelle Kwan

        by Joe Jones

        You will always be a champion in my heart. No gold at the olympics but that doesn't take a thing away from her accomplishments.

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    Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 4:02pm
  • No Sarah... is sad

    by Anonymous Coward

    I'd take a bullet for Sarah Hughes, but not for Ms. Kwan. Not that she's a bad person. In fact she's local and I've met her and she's a nice gal. Unless I was on duty, then I would have to help her to some extent.

    It's a dang shame Sarah Hughes wont be n the 2006 Winter Olympics team. Is it legal to say that yet?

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    • Feb 15th, 2006 @ 12:38am
    • Re: No Sarah... is sad

      by Kwan fan

      I saw Sarah skate with Stars on Ice in Feb 2005. She did 2 double jumps in the whole show(this included two individual performances plus the group skates), her spins were slow, and she didn't have much speed in general. I don't believe she has competed since the Olympics in 2002. Unless she has gone into serious training recently, I doubt that she is in shape to compete in Turino.

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    Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 4:20pm
  • Wireless World: Real-time Head & Shoulders


    CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A customer at a retail store picks a bottle of shampoo off the shelf, heads to the cashier, and pays for the product. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tag on the item sends a notice to the store's network -- alerting it that inventory has been reduced. The network automatically communicates with computers at the shipping center of the shampoo maker, which triggers a shipping notice that more shampoo is on the way to replenish the dwindling stocks of Head and Shoulders.

    This vision of the retail store of the future may start to come into existence in the coming year, experts tell United Press International's Wireless World. By Gene Koprowski

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    • Feb 3rd, 2006 @ 6:04pm
    • Re: Wireless World: Real-time Head & Shoulders

      by eric

      FUMBUCK, Feb. 3 (BFD) -- So, how's that different than just scanning the UPCs like they've done for years? The computer knows
      by the UPC what they just bought. By Phil McRack

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      • Feb 4th, 2006 @ 1:55pm
      • Re: Wireless World: Real-time Head & Shoulders

        by Andrew

        its not any different... walmart has servers with more data than is on the entire internet of just that thing... did you know that strawberry pop tart sales increase after a hurricane? cause walmart does.

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    Feb 4th, 2006 @ 12:12am
  • No Subject Given

    by PodissRT

    Tanya Hardings Guardian Angels "who vow to love and protect the American figure skater by bashing other skaters in the legs"

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  • Feb 4th, 2006 @ 2:09pm
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  • Jan 8th, 2008 @ 11:22am
  • by Anonymous Coward

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