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Paris Hilton needs some schoolin'
By Stone Martindale Jun 20, 2007, 20:14 GMT
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The Hiltons are so rich that Paris Hilton's family could have sent her anywhere in the world for an education. Shame on them. Paris is 26 years-old, but her affected little girl handwriting and spelling would shame a respectable 10 year-old.
After crafting a Father's Day card for her dad Rick Hilton over the weekend, the locked up club crawler got busy writing to her fans.
Hilton wrote a lucky fan back in a letter obtained Tuesday by E! Online:
"I read your letter and just wanted to thank you for your kind words of love and support. The fact that you took time out of your day to write me truly means the world. Especially at such a difficult and scary time in my life,"
"But I am being strong and trying to make the best out of the situation," Hilton continued. "And the letters I'm recieving (SIC) really do put a smile on my face as I sit here in my cell, sad and alone. Again, thank you so much and may God bless you and your family."
"Love always, Paris Hilton," she signed, dotting her i's with little hearts and adding "xoxo" at the end.
The "i" before "e" except after "c" scofflaw has a few more weeks in the pokey, then a big party to celebrate her second debut into society.
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Since writing my previous post, it has also occurred to me that your article demonstrates that you do not know how to use hyphens.
Why don't you go back to school.
Matt, er...Elliot Mintz..
You are a hoot!
I looked at her letter, and you are a moron. If a man wrote like that I would safely assume that he is a) gender challenged or flat out Kinsey scale 6 gay, b) tranny Amanda Leopore or even c) someone who went to Oxford with an 'alleged' high IQ.
Too damn funny,
sincerely,
a Cambridge man.
Dear Tab
Are you saying my letter makes me look both camp and square???
Not that I particularly care what you think of me, or of the
better university, but it really gets my goat that so many
truly stupid people are such petty intellectual snobs...
... and hypocrites! - who, despite lauding the virtues of
intelligence to high Heaven, are still taken in by Paris's
'dumb-act' even after she's admitted it was an act, and
even faced with a perfectly decent letter that she wrote
which pretty much proves the contrary ...
... their stupidity would be comic if it were not so spitefully
employed.
Matt
PS and yeah, Elliott Mintz. I think he said he wasn't going
to comment on anything Paris-related until she got out. But
what your comment really shows is that you are too narrow-
minded to understand why some people might see things in
Paris which are worthy of respect. Probably because you believe
too much of the hype floating around these days.
What is there nice to say about Paris. She is a spoiled 26 year old who has never had to work for anything in her life. Boo hoo, she has to spend some time alone locked up for breaking the law. She should count her blessing that she is not put in general population like the rest of lower class people.
Maybe now that she has found 'God', maybe when she gets out she will start working and do something that would make her Grandfather proud of her, maybe like get a job....
Lee Baca is a pin headed, bean counter!! He did a minimum of street police work and is a rear kisser of the tenth degree.... His #2, Undersheriff Larry Waldie, is his hatchet man. He ran the retired Captain, Ken Masse, who ran against Baca in the last election cycle out of the state after the election. Waldie is a drunk who has been driven home by the Calif. Highway Patrol (CHP) several times without being charged with DUI...
Hopefully someone will come out of the wood work and run against Baca.. He is ruining the world's largest Sheriff's Department which is a great department.
A 32yr. retired member
She's just a person. A normal, nice person. She happens to
have had a few more lucky breaks than most of us, and a few
more moments of public embarrassment too. And currently she's
in solitary confinement 23 hours a day. Would you cope? Or
would you crack up? Give me general population any day, but
she's under threat, so she can't be put there. The resulting
punishment - totally disproportionate to the offence. What
does it matter if she IS a little spoiled or HAS had a few
lucky breaks? And what does it matter if Delgadillo has
cynically exploited her case for his own career advancement?
At bottom what really matters is human decency and compassion.
Grow some.
PS my last comment was directed at Arthur and at those who think like him. Or rather, those who, like him, don't think.
This is for Matt,
You arrogant, self absored, self centered ass.
You don't know anything about the real world, Mister, I have two degrees. The one thing you got right about her is yes, she is a person, a human being, a woman who for once in her life is having to learn to do things on her own. This little time behind bars, betting than being in bars, is the best thing that has ever happened to her.
I know, in your ivory tower, this is such a cruel and unjust thing to do to this poor mis-guided soul. It is not her fault, it is her up bringing and all the people around her did this to her. Don't blame poor poor pity-full Paris, she doesn't do anything for herself. How can any of this be her fault.
Why don't you get your nose out of the sky, get a life and see what the real world is like.
kiss ass
Arthur, if you double-checked your spelling every so often, I might believe that you earned your two degrees. And both you and Matt should have something better to do than bitch at each other about whether Paris has earned her jailtime.
Paris is a spoiled brat. Can you tell me what mature 26-year-old uses little hearts and XO's in their letters? Offhand, I can't think of a single one.
Get your head out of your behind and use your degrees for something other than talking about Paris and your overinflated ego.
The thread on this story is funnier than the story itself-which is pretty damned funny.
Signed,
B.M.
Alma Mater: U of Houston
plain old B.S. Degree
Conrad Hilton School of Hotel & Restaurant Management
LOL!
In spite of your assurances to us of your superior education, intellect, and perspicacity, you too, have fallen prey to a rather common punctuation error, to wit: '...properly punctuated as Paris's letter...' There is no 's' following the possesive apostrophe when suffixed onto a noun ending in 's'...
Dumb ass. YOU go back to school. Tell Oxford you want your money back, cuz you was robbed!
You don't need to look at Paris' handwriting, grammar, or punctuation to determine she is a Narcissistic, vapid, spoiled, rotten slut.
One need look no further than her omnipresent sex videos.
Matt fancies Paris
Matt, you make a really good point. I was thinking the same thing as I read the article ~ while she's not Jack London, the girl can write and punctuate.
There's no tactful way to say this, but for future reference, Matt, it's really not a good idea to cite your own IQ.
I have no love for Paris. I think she is a stuck up snob, living in a bubble that has finally been broken, but I'm pretty certain she'll be back in it soon.
I really really dislike her!
But I am offwended by this article. This isn't news or gossip, it's a load of crap. You cannot even try to measure a person's intelligence or education from a casual letter to a fan. That is just ridiculous. It shows that whoever wrote the article is lazy. And hoping that the readers who despise Paris will just jump on the band wagon and get some cheap shots in.
If you are going to write an article that is going to feature so high up on google's news search, maybe you could write something of importance. Failing tht maybe you could write some gossip that is actually gossip. This is just embarrassing!
Arthur, maybe I am arrogant, self-absorbed and self-centered, and even sometimes an ass. Who cares? I didn't write the stuck-up, snotty, retarded news article which is the focus of the discussion here.
Anna, maybe you don't know any mature 26-year-olds who sign their names with little hearts and write xoxo at the end of letters. But personally, if I got a letter signed like that, I would think it was really sweet - if it was sent by someone who, like Paris, is youthful, feminine and beautiful. And why shouldn't she write like that, if she wants to? I doodle in some of the letters I send people, who cares? It's what makes the recipient smile.
To the anonymous person who points out my supposed punctuation mistake, actually in British English (I don't know about American English) it's perfectly acceptable to write 'Paris' letter' or 'Paris's letter'. The
two are pronounced differently and the former may be more formal than the
latter. However if you want to nit-pick, I could confess that I used the singular and plural inconsistently or at least with some ambiguity in my original letter. If you're going to pick on my faults, at least get it right.
On the other hand, I'm not the one who started it all by alighting on Paris
Hilton's minor orthographical pecadillos. However that ought to be spelt.
Raf, and your point is???
I mean really, your point is???
Nancy, I probably wouldn't be quantifying my IQ if I had to put a picture and a surname by my post... I don't care how intelligent most people think I am, tell me I'm a dufus, that's fine, I just wanted to make the point that the article has all the qualities of the worst kind of petty jealous drivel ever written.
Matt-you need help, and thank you for making this article a very funny read. Your self-aggrandizing comments are killing us all here in the States.
The i before e scofflaw remark was very funny.
I think the point of this article was with all the Hilton's resources, at age 26, ain't it a damned shame Paris looks to be 14 on paper?
Bitchie was right.
Heck, some of you can't even get it right with a spell checker handy, lighten up. Paris is just a very public expample of the dumbing down of America, particullary women. Men are threatened by women who can think. Take Hillary for exapmle, how dare she presume to be as smart as a man. One step further, that unelected Yale man in the White House is no rocket scientist, either. Have any of you ever read the Bushisms. Always good for a laugh....followed by a good cry.
Roselle
I think Paris is probably smarter than George Bush and she would probably be less dangerous in the White House than he is.
Paris for President!!! I mean Arnie made governor, so why not.
I wonder whether there has been some subliminal advertising at work here.
Parlux are apparently launching a new Paris Hilton perfume in October. I only know this cos of reading it on an Internet news page. It might or might not be true.
Parlux apparently also create fragrances for XOXO. Again, I'm only going on what it says somewhere on the World Wide Web.
Perhaps Paris is more subtle than you think...
Matt, how would a picture replace 'quantifying [your] IQ'? I may not be a Rhodes Scholar, but I still don't see the correlation. Perhaps if it were a high resolution image... ;)
Don't let the insults get under your skin, Matt. You express yourself and your defensiveness quite well ~ you don't need to cite an IQ number to convince people that you know grammar. You especially don't need to cite an IQ number to let people know how much you don't care whether or not they think you're smart. (Too easy ~ I just couldn't resist.) :)
All in good fun ~ after all, I did vote for Bush.
I think if I posted my pic, people might realise they
have more to be jealous of me for than my alleged IQ ;-)
PS I dunno, maybe I would have voted for Bush too. But
does it count as a choice, when the options are so limited???
Her handwriting is what I call the 'typical teenage writing,' (i.e., immature) complete with the heart i-dots in her signature with its grossly elaborated capital P and H, indicating her great need for attention. She is very much into 'the here and now.' She works very hard to write a nice, legible printed script similar to the school copy -- a desire to communicate her message. There's not a lot of energy and drive. It's a rather passive script, so I wouldn't expect her to take the initiative in many areas. I imagine that she depends on others to a great degree. This immature, little girl wants to be understood and to be close to others. Her efforts should make her mommy proud. (From a handwriting analyst)
P.S. I would like to see Matt's handwriting. It may not be as similar to Paris's as he thinks.
Hey Mensa Matt -
The conclusion that Paris is intellectually challenged was based on several factors: 1. roundness of lettering (common with slow-witted types or with people too passive to think); 2. SLOW, labored, overly-neat writing (slow writing = slow thinking); 3. adherence to textbook-style lettering (shows lack of originality, inability to think for oneself); 4. dominant middle zone (shows a childish immaturity, egotistical). Perhaps her writing was slow because she was trying too hard to write neatly, but based on her other handwriting samples (from those letters she wrote to Nick Carter, found in her locker) I don't think so. In fact, if you look at those other letters, you also see that her handwriting there lacks a consistent form, also indicating low intelligence.
Honestly, I have never seen a smart person write like this. Either your handwriting is not really all that similar, or you are not as intellectual as you claim to be.
I was searching for the XOXO use, and found this.
Come on! how many comments about a silly letter, and insulting each other. Grow up.
Cambridge, Oxford, one, two degrees.. and you challenge about THIS? a shame.
Common sense people would say, ok.. no one is perfect, we can all make mistakes, lets not make big deal for a grammar mistake.
So please, go do something ufesul with your high IQs and your degrees ;)
Matt,
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MattJun 20th, 2007 - 22:25:20
Will you people please grow up. Paris Hilton's
handwriting is similar to mine and I have two
degrees from Oxford and an IQ in excess of 155.
Her spelling and grammar are perfectly decent.
Paris avoids common spelling mistakes such as 'you're'
for 'your' or 'hear' for 'here' and capitalises 'God'
and 'I'. Her signature is absolutely exquisite and
charming. Her informal style of grammar, with incomplete
sentences, is perfectly acceptable in a casual letter. That
style of writing is one which I use in informal
letters and similar messages and believe me, I know
my split infinitives from my restrictive clauses. I doubt
you know what a restrictive clause is, which, if true,
makes you a hypocrite as well as a pedant. The fact that
Paris spells 'receiving' incorrectly is not the
most serious transgression in the criminal calendar,
and could be attributable to the high levels of stress
she is experiencing. The missing apostrophe is utterly
inconsequential. Why should she not sign off xoxo?
Based on Paris' handwriting, spelling, grammar and
phraseology - in a casually written letter - I would
hazard a guess that she is of above-average intelligence
and probably at least in the top 25-30% of the population
in terms of general literacy.
Honestly, you people really need to reconsider your
priorities in life. Your article is low, mean, spiteful,
petty and pedantic and will only add to the insecurities
of the 50%-60% of the general population who would probably
be proud if they could write a letter as neat, well-spelt
and properly punctuated as Paris's letter. You should be
ashamed of yourselves.
You have also taken advantage of the recipient of the letter,
who presumably submitted it to you proudly, showing how nicely
Paris responded, and you have cynically exploited the few
small technical errors in the letter. In doing so, I believe
you have misjudged your readership.
If you wish to mitigate the spitefulness of your article,
why don't you use your best endeavours to write something
nice about Paris.
Matt
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