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Texannie
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07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 4:34 pm
Sanjaya's Mom -- Popped for Growing Piles of Pot Posted Apr 25th 2007 5:55PM by TMZ Staff Filed under: Celebrity Justice, American Idol Maybe that's why Sanjaya's always got that goofy grin on his face! Turns out that Sanjy's mom, Jillian Blith, used to be a pot-growing potentate -- and that his sister Shyamali was no stranger to the art of toking herself. The Momjaya was pinched by the Pierce County Sheriff's Department in February 2005 in Pierce County, Wash. after they found 310 marijuana plants -- and the Sis-jaya keeping watch with a bag of weed and "smoking devices" -- in the Malakar family garage, as the National Enquirer first smoked out today. But -- buzzkill -- Shyamali, who was arrested for possession, directed the cops to another green-growing facility nearby, where they arrested Blith and her husband, Charles Quist (Sanjaya's stepdad). Quist's mugshot, obtained by TMZ, bears a striking resemblance to Gary Sinise, a very blitzed Gary Sinise. (We're told there's a mugshot of Shyamali, but it can't be made public because she was only 17 at the time of the bust.) Blith could've gone to jail for up to five years after pleading guilty to one felony count of unlawful manufacturing of a controlled substance, but got off with a relatively mellow 30-day sentence. http://www.tmz.com/2007/04/25/sanjayas-mom-popped-for-growing-piles-of-pot/
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Zgoodgirl
Member
08-22-2003
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 4:41 pm
OMG Annie! My sister was telling me about that today. She heard it on the radio. Isn't weird that when someone gets big, another has to go out of their way to dig up the dirtiest dirt on ya? This is why I will never be president...sighs. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think Sanjaya is going to be on Jimmy Kimble tonight. Should be funny since he was not exactly one of Jimmy's favs.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 12:04 am
I saw a promo and Jimmy was saying Not since Paris Hilton had someone been so famous for having so little talent.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 7:14 am
I was thinking about the Lakisha montage business, but since she was in the bottom two last week perhaps her montage was already up-to-date, and since Chris was not it obviously wasn't. However, since they weren't going to have an elimination this week (which they obviously already knew in advance) there was no reason to spend the time making another montage, especially since there is no way of knowing who will be eliminated (why do I always want to type Phileminated?) after the results of next week.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 9:42 am
quote:We had a new employee come in who was orig from Ecuador and his name was Jaime. Such a sweetie! Anyway he said we could call him Jamie, that was ok. We had to question him, because of course if he WANTED to be called Jamie that was fine, but it turned out he just suggested that because he'd had people who didn't want to make the effort to pronounce Jaime. We also explained that we already had a Jamie, who was Korean, but his name was really Jamie.
Seamonkey, I always thought it was just a different way of spelling Jamie, how do you pronouce Jaime?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 11:12 am
Hai (high)-me. I know that's probably not spelled phonetically correct.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 11:48 am
Here is AI Extra ep 7 in 320x240 wmv for anybody who doesn't get Fox Reality Channel. There are some nice interviews with the stars from the special event night, and the top 6 get interviewed at the end, 2 at a time. If someone here lip reads, let me know what the heck was blocked out while Blake was talking at the end. I thought maybe it was just a fluke for that one broadcast, but then when it aired again later I purposely tuned in for just that part and there was still no sound for about 10 seconds of Blake's talking. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U23BF41P eta, they pretty much all guessed no one was going home beforehand.
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Hobbs
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 12:57 pm
Has anyone seen anything on how they did the Elvis thing?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 1:17 pm
Yes, I did, it's all over the net. The most interesting part to me was that the audience wasn't even there when Celine taped her part. Magic of CGI even put in the audience that was a tape from a few days earlier.
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Tigerfan
Member
11-06-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 1:38 pm
tvguide.com has a behind the scenes article about it..they used an impersonator for some of it.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 2:23 pm
Here is Sanjaya on kimmel last night. http://www.mediafire.com/?7dnjj01yym1
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 3:29 pm
Jasper, there are people named Jaime, often girls, where it IS pron the same as Jamie, but for males from Spanish speaking countries/cultures it would be Hi May (approx) .. J being pron like H would be in English. Same with the J in Jorge, Jesus, Jose.. Oh.. yeah I see Wargod's post.. that way ====
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 3:48 pm
Having actually grown up on the south side of Chicago in a Polish/Hispanic neighborhood, that guy agreeing to be called Jamie was just trying to fit in. IMO knowing many men like him, he would have rather been called the name and pronunciation that he had grown up with and for others to have accepted it without anyone thinking it was odd or weird and changing it to some more acceptable American sounding name. Just think of yourself moving to another country and being called something other than you know.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 4:11 pm
Naja, yeah, same in this area, heavily hispanic, though not so much in that office.. He was just a sweetheart and once he realized that we routinely called people what they most wanted to be called, he did indeed want to be called by his name, correctly pronounced. What happened was that he was introduced to us, we pronounced it properly and then he said it was okay if the Jamie pron was easier and we laughed and said, no.. unless he actually preferred that and that it would then be confusing because of the other Jamie. We had people with Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Finnish, Hungarian, Iranian, Filipino and various Hispanic surnames and first names as well and most people made an effort. It made for an interesting environment and great potlucks I agree, too.. my name, Lynn, can be difficult for Asians but most of my co workers and friends made the effort. Some of my Spanish speaking neighbors used to stetch it to Linda, but that's at least close.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 4:51 pm
"...that guy agreeing to be called Jamie was just trying to fit in..." I totally disagree with this. Often, it's not "fitting in" but rather just a heckuva lot easier. Period. Nothing weird or underhanded or embarrassing about it. Some folks just get tired of constantly correcting the mispronunciations and just go with whatever seems to be the common way of saying his/her name. As Sea notes, "he said it was okay if... it was easier".
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 6:21 pm
Costa, I'm sure that could be the case with some people, and I may not have worded it well, but our Jamie was just being accommodating. When we asked, he was quite happy to have his name used and pronounced properly. In fact, he felt a little silly later that he had even thought of it.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 6:41 pm
I worked with a guy named Jaime and it was sort of similar. After about 15 people read his name badge and called him Jamie, he just shook his head and gave up. He was thrilled with those of us who asked how exactly to pronounce his name and attempted it. Worked with another man who eventually asked me to call him "G" or "Guy." His name was Guiellermo, and even after 9 years of speech therapy, there are just some speech combinations I can't pronounce no matter how hard I try. That "ell" (ey) and "er" together was just one of them (heh, also the reason I had to take Spanish twice in high school, wasn't cuz I couldn't read or write in Spanish, I couldn't pronounce 90% of it.) Everytime I mangled his name, the poor guy would actually cringe, I'd feel terrible and apologize and he'd tell me it was ok and to call him "G." I think it helped too that he knew pretty quickly it wasn't just his name I had trouble with and I really did try to pronounce it correctly, I just couldn't.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 6:45 pm
Well. at least you tried, Wargod That's nice and good. I would hate to throw my real full name at you even after classes 
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 7:07 pm
LOL, to tell the truth, up until I was in about the fourth or fifth grade, I wasn't able to pronounce my own last name correctly (it was one of those dreaded words that had double r's.) Bad enough to have other people mispronounce it, worse when it's yourself, lol.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:10 pm
wanna hear a funny? I don't even know how to take it..LOL Tori Spelling was bumped off Kimmel for Sanjaya last night..LOL That's interesting in two ways, <77> Sanjaya on Kimmel http://www.mediafire.com/?7dnjj01yym1
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Smokey
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:31 pm
I just watched the Kimmel thing, Naja. Thanks for posting. I cracked up at the art renderings because I actually know who one of the artists is who did one of those. It was the one that Kimmel said was up to $7 but the seller wanted $900.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:46 pm
LOL Smokey I laughed later in the same show when my second favorite reality show stars from "Deadliest Catch" on Discovery channel were sitting on the couch with Sanjaya, and Jimmy says to Edgar and Sig "You have the most deadliest jobs in the world" and Edgar turns to Sanjaya, pats his leg and says "Except for singing"..LOL I think I love Edgar now http://youtube.com/watch?v=DxExs--gGL0
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 10:19 pm
most people give up trying to pronounce my name too. i can tell when a salesman tries to call me, cuz they mangle my first name.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 1:09 am
My name is constantly mispronounced by people until they get to know me. I just answer to it anyway unless I really want to get to know them. Salesmen don't qualify. LOL
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 9:48 am
No one can pronounce my last name. Unless I'm really going to be seeing the person frequently, I just answer to whatever they say.
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