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Well, for starters. he owes an apology to all the people who bought products and services which he advertised to them. Basically, when celebrities promote goods and services for money (in his case a great deal of money), they are asking the public to buy into their image. In Woods' case, his image, which he fully exploited, was a squeeky clean, married, family man who just happened to be the world's greatest golfer. He has now sullied his image and by extension, the products and services he is associated with, which is why none of those ads are running anymore and will probably never be run again. He is the butt of humour now on late night TV and on the Internet. People now think of him as a guy with gargantuan sexual appetites. Nothing wrong with that, unless you're tryng to sell a family car such as the Buicks he promoted. (He should have opted for racier cars, perhaps Porsches.) I don't follow golfing very closely but I have come to have new respect for John Daly, who is who he is, no apologies for warts and all. He is the real thing, Tiger turns out to be a complete phoney. He's still the greatest golfer but given his personal proclivities, he should have stuck with that and foregone the endorsements.

As I posted several days ago, the perception of Tiger's lifestyle is all-important and now that his brand is seriously tarnished, the wheels are starting to fall off the $100 million a year Tiger Woods enterprise. Today Gatorade announced it is dropping Tiger's name from a drink that it markets and will no longer use Woods as a spokesman. This is the first company to publically drop Tiger but it was also noted by some media outlet that no TV ads featuring Tiger have been aired since November 29, 2 days after the accident. Before that, his face appeared daily somewhere in the US media. Perhaps this is just companies exercising caution and waiting to see how the story develops. His popularity is dropping like a stone and if the story gets messier than it already is, I predict Tiger's days as a supersalesman are OVER!

Before he became president, JFK was in a similar position with Jackie. She threatened to leave him over his philandering and old man Joe cut a cheque for $1million to keep Jackie at her husband's side. Today that would represent probably $35 to $50 million, considering what inflation has been. So what's the diff? Was Jackie a "hooker"? After JFK's death she went on to marry the world's richest man. Did that make her a highly paid courtesan? These are questions that seem to recur from time to time.

There was another famous libel case where the entertainer, Liberace, sued a British tabloid for saying he was gay. He won a 6 figure damage claim which in those days was the equivalent of well over half a million dollars today. When Liberace died of AIDs, the magazine sued his estate and, if I am not wrong in my recollection, they won back their money because Liberace had commited perjury. In Tiger's situation, whether or not these ladies had affairs with him while he was married, the sordidness of the situation is quickly tarnishing his billion dollar brand. If things continue to cascade, watch out for the cancellation of endorsement contracts, particularly by companies that identify with a squeaky clean image. It might already be too late to stop this from happening. IMO, Tiger has only himself to blame. In the media world, which he has participated in to his personal enrichment, image is EVERYTHING! American corporations in particular, are susceptible to pressure from the American public which is not very tolerant to extramarital affairs. In France, it wouldn't be the same. They expect the rich and powerful to have mistresses.

Sorry, but the experts don't agree with you.To quote an expert, Phil Hall, president of London-based firm PHA, which handles communications and crisis management for sports figures and others, "If you take money for commercial deals which basically say "look, I'm a good guy, and I'm a decent clean-living citizen...the public buy into that..you forfeit the right to your private life because the public is buying a product, buying an image". He went on to say that Woods has a limited time to explain events, or risk staining both his own brand and those of his sponsors. He added "people accept that sometimes human beings err, but when they fan the flames by lying...people aren't so forgiving. It's never the mistake that brings the politician down, it's the cover-up afterwards".

I'm with purplekow on this one. Once a public figure starts to sign contracts to push products and services that are sold to the public, he/she has become beholding to the public in terms of his/her comportment both in public and in private when that spills over into the public sphere. That's just the way it is and when they f**k up, they can't start to complain that they are private citizens. They gave that up when they signed those contracts and asked us (explicitedly or implied) that we should trust their judgment about things that impact our lives (whether they are flogging life insurance, banking services, airlines, cars, what have you. So in Tiger's case, if there is more to the story that what he has allowed to be put out to date, we all want to know. And if he doesn't want to come clean, well then, he is free to give up his billion dollar endorsements and just go back to being a private citizen. How many have done that willingly?

I used to live in Geneva and watched as they constructed the installation known as CERN. This was many years ago and it has taken a long time to come to fruition. What always fascinated me was the fact that they were building this contraption which, at the extreme, might possibly create a black hole of some undetermined size that could suck things into it. This conjured up the image of all the hidden deposits in Swiss banks held on behalf of corrupt politicians abroad and other assorted criminals being sucked into oblivion. What a PR disaster for the Swiss banks! I imagine they must have sent out letters to their faithful depositors assuring them that all would go well with this historic experiment! :7

Well Charlie, we seem to have something (and someone) in common!

You are a first time poster so welcome to this board. Your interest in Jason Markus is understandable as I consider him to be one of NYC's finest male escorts. But if you search under his name you will find his reviews still listed, I just checked and they are there. If you are looking for a big dicked top with a pleasing personality and a desire to please his clients, you won't find any better.

I feel for your loss. I still hope you get out to see some of the other dancers and find some fun in their antics. I know it's a lie to say time heals everything but there are still things to enjoy in life no matter what your loss. Keep a stiff upper lip!

Kevin, this is an interesting subject and although I am not into foot fetish activities, I agree it can be pleasurable for someone to suck your toes.I appreciate your main attraction may continue to be in the inches department rather than feet (and if you ever get to Montreal be sure to post in the travel section), but as you have experienced there are guys out there who may be interested in your feet primarily. I would say yes to the pedicure but that's just me and I'm not particularly into feet. I would guess that some guys are into rank feet, just as some are into ripe dicks! Each to his own. }(

How about the ventriloquist and his dummy MASTER BATES and HUGO BLIND

I've had the same experience recently. Drugs are just ruining those bois!:-(

This is early 80's: High Energy (can't remember the artist)