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I'll buy that for a dollar
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To be honest, putting all that on Tiger Woods' wandering meat putter is giving the man's penis a damn sight more power than it deserves.
But the essential point remains, whether it's $12 bn or $1 bn. A hell of a lot of money was (and is) riding on this man's image.
For several years now, Woods has been banking more than $100 million annually in sponsorship -- more than any other sportsman in history. His actual earnings from playing golf are less than a quarter of that.
And all the while, this has been contingent on the keeping of confidence not only of Woods's employees and "girlfriends", but of journalists and fellow players who frankly didn't even like the guy. It is quite fascinating. And yup, a lot's been riding on his todger.
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I'm still cheered by it because it shows how poorly we understand the economy and the staggering fictions we tell one another when it comes - for instance - to the role of endorsements and sponsorships.
Or the 500 Trillion Dollar Derivatives 'Market'. Talk about inflating the value of thin air. But don't worry, we can fill the gold bars with tungsten and sell it to the Chinese. They'll never notice.
Gore Vidal Quote from The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity-much less dissent. "
Wandering meat putters are much safer than the obviously failing model of global democratization and greed based economics.
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Maybe Tiger's schlong is also a derivative.
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It's certainly of inflated value.
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And all the while, this has been contingent on the keeping of confidence not only of Woods's employees and "girlfriends", but of journalists and fellow players who frankly didn't even like the guy. It is quite fascinating.
See that's interesting. The value of the image of one man to his sponsors and the complicity of the media in keeping it there when some of them obviously knew, until it was broken and then they all suddenly switched and were all over it.
What he did with girlfriend #9 and whatnot, not so much.
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Pork futures?
We're not going to have a 'Pork Bone' political incident, are we? Cause that is certainly derivative ;-)
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But the essential point remains, whether it's $12 bn or $1 bn. A hell of a lot of money was (and is) riding on this man's image.
Could we both agree that the point is better not made with statistically-illiterate reporting of a study with methodological fish-hooks even its author is quite happy to concede? (A study, by the way, that is still in the process of being readied for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.)
And all the while, this has been contingent on the keeping of confidence not only of Woods's employees and "girlfriends", but of journalists and fellow players who frankly didn't even like the guy.
Yes, but Franklin Roosevelt's entire political career was "contingent" on his extra-marital affair with his wife's social secretary (and that his wife offered him a divorce, which would have been a massive scandal in itself) staying out of the public eye.
It says quite a lot about how the world has changed that even newspapers and politicians who were vehemently opposed to his policies weren't willing to pull that trigger. And I'm no so sure the world is a worse place for it.
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From my limited experience of Golf I came to the conclusion, many years ago, that it was what you told the wife you were doing when you "Reach out and touch someone." ® AT&T and "Get More Than Lucky" ® Upper Deck and "Just do it" ® Nike, then you can say "Is It In You?" ® Gatorade . With "High performance, delivered" ® Accenture, it's "The Best a man Can Get" ® Gillette, after all "What Are You Made Of?" ® TAG Heuer, "Challenge Everything" ® EA Sports.
And they say he was led astray?. -
Brilliant.
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Tiger Woods' wandering meat putter
I wish to use this (in conversation, honestly) with due attribution of course. :)
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Mottos - the Hoopla?
And they say he was led astray?.
They don't call them catchphrases for nothing...
... and then it's no great distance
from slogan to logo to Logos
(the Word of God!)
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