Cut That Ghee! Cut That Ghee!

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I am not, I repeat not, calling him a ho. Hey, $200,000 to me sounds like a perfectly fair price to make an appearance at a Sweet Sixteen birthday party. Even when you’re already on a $100 million contract with a $34 million guaranteed signing bonus. Yeah, yeah, I know, maybe the dough wasn’t that much, and maybe it all went to charity, or something. But that gets us to the more important question: Who the hell spends that kind of money on their daughter’s 16th birthday party? And if Peyton cost two hundred grand, what was the total bill for the event considering that Cedric the Entertainer and Mallika Sherawat were apparently also in the house?

Either way, the whole thing was lampooned yesterday on both PTI and ATH on ESPN; you can find the video by digging around here. The consensus view was: Tacky. Offer your own thoughts on the matter here, or if you prefer a more down and dirty environment, check out the comment threads at Deadspin (which broke this story) or AOL Sports, where the proportion of terrorist and camel jokes is actually refreshingly low.

72 thoughts on “Cut That Ghee! Cut That Ghee!

  1. If we can compare our lifestyle choices with some rich Desi guy and criticise him, we deserve to be kicked in the bottom by billions for our lifestyle choices.

    Good point. Most of us deserve to get kicked in the bottom by billions for our lifestyle choices as much as this desi guy deserves our criticism (and he damn well deserves it!).

  2. Peyton going there may be cool, but as for the desi dude, he’s not doing his daughter a lot of good this way. I wonder what her sense of reality and money would be after things like these. Maybe the dude should donate 200K to some charity or start a trust in her name or something, that might help her see a side of life she probably has not been exposed to.

  3. Things Asha will not be encouraged to participate in

    • Ballet (does not inclued Bharatanatyam which from what Ammamma tells me will almost be required)
    • Softball
    • SuperSweet Sixteen party
    • Dating before age 17 (double standard, yes I know but too bad. I’m a guy and I know how guys think and what’s on their minds)
  4. Maybe the dude should donate 200K to some charity or start a trust in her name or something

    How about this? He donates the money to me, and then I kick everyone in the ass (including myself for fucking over untold billions in the developing world). Seems fair, right?

  5. Good point. Most of us deserve to get kicked in the bottom by billions for our lifestyle choices as much as this desi guy deserves our criticism (and he damn well deserves it!).

    Shruti, I don’t think he deserves it. Most people think they have a right to spend their money as they want. I would agree with you if some politician does this kind of thing, but a private citizen like him can show off his wealth as he chooses.

    How about this? He donates the money to me, and then I kick everyone in the ass (including myself for fucking over untold billions in the developing world). Seems fair, right?

    Rah, yeah it seems fair, but not possible. You might need more than 200k to kick millions of butts, unless they all decide to come to your doorstep to get their bottoms kicked by your divine feet. Like hugging saint, you might be called as Ass Kicking Baba Here is a suggestion, you can start an online campaign asking people to kick themselves in their ass. I tried and it worked for me.

  6. you can start an online campaign asking people to kick themselves in their a$$.

    A chain mail would work too – If you dont kick yourself in the ass in the next 5 nanoseconds and forward it to 20 million other people, Rah will come and kick your a$$ for you. Or maybe – Everytime you kick yourself in the a$$ organization XYZ donates a penny to some child in some developing nation.

  7. What’s wrong with softball (#53)?
    yeah, what the heck is wrong with softball?

    What’s wrong with ballet?

    Tom Brady, who spends his timeaway from football having kids out of wedlock.

    Or having kids out of wedlock?

  8. Tom Brady, who spends his timeaway from football having kids out of wedlock. Or having kids out of wedlock?

    i here gisele might be preggers too.. sheesh..brady is sure keeping busy..

  9. I guess Brady won’t be doing an ads for condoms anytime soon.

    or gisele and his ex-gf bridget for birth control pills.

  10. I would love to see Manning do an condom ad, just to take a shot at Brady, now that would be funny.

  11. Clarification…competitive softball, not the drunk slow pitch kind that is played in corporate leagues.

    Ballet stems from experiences (non-romantic) with two girls I knew who were so hard driven they became neurotic and anorexic.

    Brady does have super sperm, much like K-Fed. Don’t forget about Matty Leinart and his little college fun baby (Chick Pea).

    Texas has claimed another Californian as I’ve read that Roonie is moving to H-town.

  12. Clarification…competitive softball, not the drunk slow pitch kind that is played in corporate leagues.

    Awesome!!!

  13. Is it just me or is the comments section beginning to realllly sound like the one we have back in YouTube ?

    Fellow desis, plz get a life… ASAP !! How dare we judge how another person spends his own money !! Sure 200K could have been spent in charity, but so could the 10K you spend on your car, the $400 on that Xbox, and the $20 you spent entering that no good club on a friday night !

    Even the most charitable of the charitable have no right to judge other people on their spending ways, let alone regular desis like you and me who I’m sure are no way as big philanthropists as we pretend to be on the comments ! And as for how he raises his own daughter, and how he decides to celebrate her birthday, That’s None of our business either .

    I guess one of the biggest things to come out from this story is how we desis JUDGE all the time. We can’t even let a successful desi man celebrate his daughter’s 16th birthday in peace – [ Reminds me of an earlier SM post which talks about nosy relatives poking their noses in salary/ financial matters… isn’t this exactly the same ? ] Surely we are better than this.

  14. Clarification…competitive softball

    what is wrong with competitive softball?

    Matty Leinart and his little college fun baby (Chick Pea).

    didn’t know about it…. i thought every college FB player has a fun baby. no?

    and as for roonie moving to h-town.. she’ll be back in california. i have a gut feeling. it’s just temporary.

  15. Matty Leinart bagged himself a basketball player. That should be one athletic kid.

    Ricky Williams had a kid in college, but it was largely suppressed while he was in college presumably to help him win the Heisman.

    Barry Sanders also fathered a kid while he was the student president of FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) at Oklahoma State. Romans 3:23

    Will it be LL Cool J “Goin’ Back to Cali” or “All My Exes Live in Texas” for Roonie I wonder.

  16. Mohinder_Suresh on March 8, 2007 12:36 AM · Direct link RE:Antahkarana those comments on the link you provided of the story are freakin hillarious…:D. Everyone bashing peyton manning lol.

    aren’t you dead, dude? if u did manage to survive, congrats. just make sure u have enuf curare, next time.

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