The End of Phelps As a Pitchman?
 

http://sports.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090201.wsptphelps1/GSStory/GlobeSportsOther/home

A British paper has published a picture of Phelps allegedly using a bong.

If this is true he is an idiot. World's most expensive toke.

:rolleyes:

Looks like Phelps is living out all those repressed teenage angst and party years.

Why is the byline location Tampa? Is he bonging at the Super Bowl?

He should just blow some rails like our beloved Mess...er, President.

He can now pitch for Storz-Bickel...

Wow... expensive toke indeed!

With his lung capacity, I'll bet he could destroy bowls with that bong!

I wanna be like mike!

that's not a bong, thats a water pipe....

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This is a bonghttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1233511564.jpg

Back in the day, I could clear a five-footer.

I personally see no problem with this whatsoever. I know some snowboarder got his Olympic medal rescinded a few years ago because he tested positive for THC. (Performance enhancing my @$$! I can tell you first hand it will cut down your lung capacity in short order.)

Have we reached a crossroads?

What I mean is this: is America finally to the point where we can accept that our national hero likes to kick back and toke up? We sure don't mind when they drink. I hope we have finally gotten to that point. I for one wouldn't mind kicking back with a joint, like I used to do in college. I haven't touched the stuff since college because the legal and career risks are too great at this point, but if it were legal, I'd be lighting up that day.

no....ez wider

LOL, when I was a freshman at Cal, I asked the clerk at a shop "How much is that bong?" and was hit with that firm rebuke.

I'm sure many athletes and celebrities do it but have been more careful about not getting on camera.

It wont end his commerical career... heck snoopdog gets commercials.

He just has to be more discreet next time. Lots of celebs smoke. If all of them were photographed doing it at frat parties, we would be shocked to see who they all are. Even Maryanne from Gilligans Island tokes.

:eek: ;)


As a straight guy though....This is a bad pose to be caught in as photshop opps are too easy.

http://images.theglobeandmail.com/ar...ps1/phelps.jpg

I must say, his form is very good:) Must carry over from his swimming.

Look at that...Shoulders are set nice and straight, back is straight, head slightly down, chest out, eyes on the pipe.

Take it to the dome Mike!

Hell, he's far from being done. The public loves a fallen angel, remember the guy that got the BJ in the oval office!:eek:

IMHO, we are wayyyyy to uptight over pot and boobs......

All he has to do is say he didn't inhale.

I am not an advocate for smoking dope but I don't think this is a big deal for him.

Sure, it's illegal but no one can prove what is in the water pipe. Now, since he admitted to smoking it, can he be prosecuted?

I am not a fan of the Olympics so I could care less how this affects him. I don't see him sitting on the couch eating Doritos and Mt. Dew for the next 20 years.

Didn't the "Dood you shoulda bought a Dell" guy get canned for sparking up?

I dunno, is it really *that* bad?

It is banned because it has been deemed to reduce fear and inhibition in dangerous activities. Like snow-boarding.

+1 werd

I'm neither up tight about boobs or pot but...

A guy who works with children and is a role model should not have a dwi and this picture out there. I bet this does affect his ability to make money.

I personally think any celebrity caught dwi or in a picture like this is an idiot. I mean you got all this money, you can't take a taxi or walk up to a guy and say "Here's a cool 5 bills to drive me home?". And for the pictures, you couldn't offer the guy the same money for his phone so he can't post them on the internet???

And I bet all the people who say legalize this or that would not be so happy to find their 13 yr old kids doing it.

IMHO of course...

Alcohol is legal. Do we let 13 year olds do it?

That's kind of a straw man argument IMO.

Would you rather be on the road with a bunch of drunks or stoners?
Myself neither, but............................:eek:

I didn't say we would let 13 yr olds smoke pot did I??? To your point, 13 yr olds do drink right? How? Because alcohol is in every house. Real easy to siphon off some Jack without someone noticing it or stealing a beer or two once the old man passes out.

If pot was legal don't you think it would be easier to get? Their are a lot of people who would like to smoke pot but are put off on the risks of aquiring it. That decreases it's availability.

And that's not really my point. I was pointing out the hypocrisy of people who say legalize this or that, but in reality would be horrified to have thier kid caught with it. I actually bet most people in favoring legalization don't have kids.

I wrote a whole lot more but deleted it. This isn't the most serious of thread, sorry for kind of hi-jacking it.

In my experience the stoner's wouldn't be getting up off the couch much less hitting the road!

When I was 13, it was a heck of a lot easier to get pot than booze. Every parent in my circle of friends had their booze well secured. Pot, on the other hand, was distributed through an unregulated system. We knew who to ask. None of us had siblings over 21, and there was no way in hell our parents were buying for us.

I guess we just had different experiences growing up, or maybe my friends were better thieves. I did grow up in NJ, you know.

I also think I grew up in a down period of pot use the 80's. Obviously pot was big in the 60's and 70's. Then it kind of faded when other drugs and alcohol had a big push. That's when I was in college. Of course pot came back with vengeance and is obviously still going strong...

Fair enough. From my perspective, legalizing makes something harder for kids to get their hands on, because that was my experience.

So you can see how I see legalizing as a good thing overall.

BTW, I went to high school and college in the 90's--pot use was rising exponentially during that period.

Let me give you an example of the ONE time I drank alcohol in high school.

My friends father had all his booze locked in the spare bedroom closet--which he had installed a key lock on. Because the door was hinged to open into the bedroom, we pulled the pins on the door and took the door off. Once inside, we discovered that every single liquor bottle had a black marker line and a date on it. We knew better than to try to outsmart his father. We knew he kept a log with the dates in his bedroom safe, so adding a date and a line to a bottle would be detected the next time he sampled from a bottle. As he had a rather extensive collection, we simply poured enough from each bottle to touch the bottom of the black line into a thermos. Vodka, gin, tequila, rum--it all went in. It tasted like $h!t and there wasn't enough to get any of us buzzed.

My parents were teetotalers and there was no alcohol in our house. My other friends' parents only bought the booze they were going to drink for the night. Still, other friends knew the retribution that stealing from their parents would bring and didn't risk it.

Mr. Phelps just made Olympic history. He is obviously an amazing athlete. Perhaps people should get over their 1950s Refer Madness hysteria.

For reason that are obvious, I'm gonna be a little vague, but there are a heck of a lot more professional folks that smoke than one might think.

It is a big deal for the guy's advertisement contracts. These contracts are selling an image of the athlete, which now may be damaged. Needless to say, these contracts often have clauses that protect the advertising company. This likely was a very very costly hit from the bong.

We always assume that athletes must be smart, since they are successful. Not a good assumption ... If it comes to image, it is a lot easier to be selling the Snoop Dog image, I suppose ...

George

I think you will be correct more often if you assume the opposite.