I hate to be the Celebrity Nazi, but this must not pass unremarked. We’ve noted the hackish tendencies of the Times of India web site before. Check out yesterday’s doozy (via Kush): the ToI’s photo implied that Britney Spears’ first husband was Jason Alexander, the rotund comedian who played George Costanza on Seinfeld.
Of course, the young rake they’re really after is Jason Allen Alexander of ‘I was Britney Spears’ love slave for 55 hours’ infamy.
“I never thought the wedding was a joke. I was serious about everything I said. But being married to Britney Spears was shit…” [Link]
Maybe the ToI should hire some of those call center people who watch American sitcoms all day. No fact-checking for you!
In other news, I was married to Carmen Electra for 55 hours. Uh, that’s Carmen Electra of Oskaloosa, Kansas 
Sorry, Carmen! 🙁
Oy Gabbar, don’t make me “kick” your ass…
good for ya buddy! I think u guys look cute together 🙂
did any of you guys visit ESPN.com this morning?
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=cricket
i must say, it came as a bit of a shock to me.
CRICKET IN AMERICA George Washington was a cricket enthusiast and his troops played a version of it during the Revolutionary War.
Its under ‘What is cricket’?
ToI is the biggest kaka-poo newspaper in the world. I don’t think they’re reached the level of fact ‘checking’ – they need facts first.
BTW, has anyone heard of Gujarati men shopping for brides in India? Is this an urban legend …
that is the stupidest crash course in cricket I have ever seen!!!
Babloo— Urban legend??? Happens quiet a bit !
Al M for D, that link is hilarious. The way they explain cricket, having to put everything in baseball terminology ‘backsweeps, Billy Wagner fastballs, a six is like a home run, and the daft video that plays “Amar’s Baahllywood wife Tejal”. She’s Indian, hence she’s a Bollywood wife. This is why I like the BBC, American TV networks are garbage.
I wasn’t aware of this either: “Fast pitchers such as India’s Irfan Pathan can throw a missile off the ground at more than 100 mph”. Pathan’s never got that fast. And he’s not a pitcher!
I mentioned American kirikit in a comment a while back, it’s in a very sorry state.
Here’s a really funny article on how if it wasn’t for cricket, baseball AND America would not exist! (Warning: Anti-baseball sentiments abound)
Well, we should be thankful to TOI to get at least one person right out of two!
hmm… I’m not sure if I’m comfortable with this – it’s one thing to poke fun at poseurs or typos – but if the subtext is fat people should stick to their phenotype or risk being mocked … – am not that naive to say, “that’s just not fair” – but surely… you could blunt the barb manish, no?
Ok, here is my version of what would have happened if Britney had actually married Jason ‘George Costanza’ Alexander.
Standard disclaimers for shameless self publicity apply.
It’s not the chub, it’s the Lenny Kravitz goggles. You don’t want to pick someone who’s genuinely unattractive by mainstream standards because that would be mean-spirited. You just want to pick someone slightly unfashionable.
Besides, if you click the link, I don’t think this model is lacking for exposure– she’s in a humorous ad campaign for shoes. Here’s her male counterpart.
Germanic blondie lovers (Al_M, RTA etc) of SM unite!! One of your womenfolk (almost) is being mocked and assailed in the commons. Be men, rise to the occasion and defend her honor. She has feelings too…
owie.. stupid TOI! bad TOI!
Maybe we can all call TOI and yodel “CantStandYa…” to them. Surely, they deserve it.
ganguly,
not much of a captain are ya?
To be fair to TOI-let paper they laid the byline-cum-blame at the door of “The Agencies” — ..oh and that photo of Jason ‘Contanza’ Alexander is from “The Reuters”…wowziee!!
such a piece of BS, this TOI.
To all the people mockering about TOI’s news: do a google search and you will find that this news item(if u can call it so) was reported on hundreds of news websites.
heres one i found: http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/spears%20ex-husband%20slams%20their%20s**t%20marriage
so Manish next time u post something, google it first!
The mistake was the photo they ran of the wrong person, not the news story.
Too bad for all the mix up and controversy-someone is a legal spouse-
It happens only in TOI
In other news, I was married to Carmen Electra for 55 hours. Uh, thatÂ’s Carmen Electra of Oskaloosa, Kansas
hahhaha, as long as you woke up before she realised you were a male human, you’re ok.
I just love the cricket bits we sneaked in here!
Ah, the desperateness of shoe ads.
The print edition sucks too. barely 10 pages and most pages are ads and scoiety boolywood hoolywood news. The street kids in bomby were selling me a great Leftist literate paper…does anyone know the name?
Yeah, “I never thought the wedding was a joke. I was serious about everything I said. But being married to Britney Spears was shit…” Poor guy, guess the perfume he bought at http://www.britneyspearsperfume.net didn’t do the trick. Ha ha.
Yeah, “I never thought the wedding was a joke. I was serious about everything I said. But being married to Britney Spears was shit…” Poor guy, guess the perfume he bought at Britney Spears Perfumedidn’t do the trick. Ha ha.
hey u rock
I love this blooperâ€â€and I had been joking about it since it happened back in 2004. Glad to see that the Times of India happily plays to my sense of humour. More recently I spotted another item that the Times of India got terribly wrong: a story about Miranda Kerr, the Australian model, that didn’t even happen! Now with these two gaffes, I will have to take anything in the Times of India with a grain of salt.
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