She sounds like a skank to me!!

[barrk]

'Skank' Not Libel, Court Rules
Fri Apr 19, 7:57 AM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - It may not be OK to be a skank but legally it is OK to be called one.


A California state appeals court has ruled it is not libel to call someone a "skank" or even a "big skank" on the radio -- describing the word as "a derogatory slang term of recent vintage that has no generally recognized meaning."

The state's 1st Court of Appeals, ruling in a case stemming from the show "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire," found that participants in the program "voluntarily subjected themselves to inevitable scrutiny and potential ridicule by the public and the media."

A contestant, one of 50 women who competed to marry a multimillionaire on the Fox television program, sued two morning disc-jockeys at a San Francisco radio station after they called her a "local loser," a "chicken-butt" and a skank" for declining their invitation to appear on their show.

The woman, Jennifer Seelig, was not amused and sued the disc jockeys, their producer and the radio station owner, Viacom Inc. unit Infinity Broadcasting, citing slander, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress.

But the appeals court judges, in their ruling released on Tuesday, instructed the trial court to dismiss the case, saying the on-air discussion involved "a television show of significant interest to the public and the media" and thus was a protected form of free speech.

The appeals court also rejected the plaintiff's claim that she was libeled, saying there was no way to prove that the disc jockeys had knowingly perpetrated a falsehood by describing her as a "local loser", a "chicken butt" and a "big skank."

"The terms local loser and chicken butt are not actionable because they are too vague to be capable of being proven true or false," the court said.

It said the same argument applied to the phrase "big skank."

The plaintiff's lawyer, Christopher Dolan, had argued that the term "skank" was widely understood to be derogatory, pointing to definitions such as that in the American Heritage Dictionary, which defines the word as "One who is disgustingly foul or filthy and often considered sexually promiscuous. Used especially of a woman or girl."

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Is there anything someone won't sue over?!?!?!?!

[Pix]

That's skanky

[Gary.Lowe]

pretty soon you won't be able to talk to anyone in fear of them sueing you.

[Gaffer]

Yeah Gary, you big bum face

[Suzzi]

I don't think she should be called a skank.

I'd sleep with someone if I knew they were worth multiple millions. Of course, I'd probably poison them in their sleep after about a week, but hey, thats just me and my quirky personality(s)

[cafeenman]

See? You'd make a perfect Secret Agent Paul Girl.

[WorkHorse]

So don't say "Hey, Buddy." Say, "Hey, Bud." Wait, Anheiser Busch probably has that one. Maybe, "Hey, pal." Nope, Lockheed-Martin. "Hey, fella." Nah, the sofa company has that. I think the only way to address someone without violating a trademark is, "Hey, Skank."

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by WorkHorse
So don't say "Hey, Buddy." Say, "Hey, Bud." Wait, Anheiser Busch probably has that one. Maybe, "Hey, pal." Nope, Lockheed-Martin. "Hey, fella." Nah, the sofa company has that. I think the only way to address someone without violating a trademark is, "Hey, Skank."

It's a wonder someone hasn't laid claim to the dictionary.

[cafeenman]

BTW, I copyrighted the word "cool" in all its forms. But I like you guys, so you can have unlimited instances of it for personal use only. Just thought you should know.

[JungleMan]

I've copyrighted the word "cafeenman" and you've posted 1,388 times with it. Pay up now or I'll sue you too. And I have Johnny Cochran as my lawyer so don't mess with me.

[cafeenman]

****!

[Nightwalker83]

Everything is going to be copywritten the way things are going. I don't think there will be anything left in a hundred years.

[WorkHorse]

The woman, Jennifer Seelig, was not amused and sued the disc jockeys, their producer and the radio station owner, Viacom Inc. unit Infinity Broadcasting, citing slander, invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress.

How did they invade her privacy? Did they send spys to watch her at home to see if she is really a local-loser? Did they send peeking-Toms to see if her butt was actually a chicken-butt?

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by WorkHorse
How did they invade her privacy? Did they send spys to watch her at home to see if she is really a local-loser? Did they send peeking-Toms to see if her butt was actually a chicken-butt?

Maybe who knows, did you hear about the webmasters wanting to put webcams in ppls hotel rooms.

[WorkHorse]

Your Honor: We video taped Ms. Seelig in a hotel room having sex. Evidence "A" shows that when having sex local-winner women gyrate at the rate of .4 seconds per thrust at optimum performance. The tape clearly shows that Ms. Seelig thrusted at the local-loser rate of .7 seconds per thrust. In addition, a composite bit-map picture of her butt when compared to a bit-map of one of farmer Dan's chicken’s butt's reveals 1078 precise matches. This concludes that Ms. Seelig is a local loser with a chicken butt.

No further questions, Your Honor.

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by WorkHorse
Your Honor: We video taped Ms. Seelig in a hotel room having sex. Evidence "A" shows that when having sex local-winner women gyrate at the rate of .4 seconds per thrust at optimum performance. The tape clearly shows that Ms. Seelig thrusted at the local-loser rate of .7 seconds per thrust. In addition, a composite bit-map picture of her butt when compared to a bit-map of one of farmer Dan's chicken’s butt's reveals 1078 precise matches. This concludes that Ms. Seelig is a local loser with a chicken butt.

No further questions, Your Honor.

Big invasion of pravicy thought.

[cafeenman]

Originally posted by WorkHorse
Your Honor: We video taped Ms. Seelig in a hotel room having sex. Evidence "A" shows that when having sex local-winner women gyrate at the rate of .4 seconds per thrust at optimum performance. The tape clearly shows that Ms. Seelig thrusted at the local-loser rate of .7 seconds per thrust. In addition, a composite bit-map picture of her butt when compared to a bit-map of one of farmer Dan's chicken’s butt's reveals 1078 precise matches. This concludes that Ms. Seelig is a local loser with a chicken butt.

No further questions, Your Honor.

You're Honor, the Prosecutor has failed to show sufficient evidence to define the word "Skank." I move for a mistrial so that I may extract payment from Ms. Seelig in my local office at the Motel Lovebead.

[cafeenman]

Oh wait, your honor. We don't want a mistrial. We want money from those radio station jerks. Skank is a terrible, nasty word and is definitely slander I think.

[Nightwalker83]

Originally posted by cafeenman
Oh wait, your honor. We don't want a mistrial. We want money from those radio station jerks. Skank is a terrible, nasty word and is definitely slander I think.

Wait I missed something better rewind then zoom-in on the action

[WorkHorse]

Yah, Honah, please! We all know what a skank is. For those ignorant morons that question such simple terms, we will elucidate:

skank - a dance; a freeloader...
noun:
1. a circular punk dance
2. an undesirable, irresponsible or dishonest person; freeloader
3. a promiscuous person, esp. one who transmit sexual diseases
verb:
1. to dance the skank
2. to avoid paying one's own way

Evidence "A" shows clearly the young fellas call what she is doing the "circular punk dance". Evicence "A" also demonstartes that Ms. Seelig is a promiscuous person whether she has ESP or not. And, what could be more undesirable than a skank ho-bag chicken butt local loser like the defendant?

[cafeenman]

Originally posted by WorkHorse
Yah, Honah, please! We all know what a skank is. For those ignorant morons that question such simple terms, we will elucidate:

Evidence "A" shows clearly the young fellas call what she is doing the "circular punk dance". Evicence "A" also demonstartes that Ms. Seelig is a promiscuous person whether she has ESP or not. And, what could be more undesirable than a skank ho-bag chicken butt local loser like the defendant?

You're honor: Rather than waste the people's money on a second trial, we would like to go ahead and sue the defendent's attorney while we're here anyway.

Ms. Seelig was merely engaged in a demonstration of a widely accepted cultural activity that in no way brought discredit upon herself. These two broadcast journalists sought to publicly humiliate my client as a retaliatory measure after Ms. Seelig declined their invitation to appear on their show.

They continued this activity for several days in an attempt to humiliate her within her community and among her peers, family members and co-workers. In addition, they blackmailed my client for sexual favors in order to end the harassment. After providing these favors, my the two defendents continued to harass her even though she performed these favors for them repeatedly through out the day and on weekends.

Therefore, I believe the jury is compelled to rule in favor of my client.