NY Post finally gets Chiara story!
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NY Post finally gets Chiara story!
Pbandj | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 02:51 pm     In today's Post is the old news that is finally breaking: http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/53312.htm SNAP! ‘BIG BRO' PUTS HER LOVE LIFE IN CODE By DON KAPLAN July 25, 2002 -- A DRUNK-driving charge may be just the tip of the iceberg on "Big Brother 3" contestant Chiara Berti's riveting personal life. Now, it appears Berti is telling her housemates that she's dating the son of one of New York's richest real-estate developers, World Trade Center mogul Larry Silverstein. Berti used a finger-snapping code that she made up to spell out Roger Silverstein's name while telling other "Big Brother" contestants about her dating life. Silverstein, 38, is the son of Larry Silverstein, who owns the 99-year lease on the World Trade Center site. Berti used the code apparently to keep from actually saying his name in the house, where 40 cameras and 60 microphones pick up everything the housemates do and say. The trouble is, Berti explained to her housemates how her code worked. The show's Internet viewers quickly figured out that she'd spelled out Silverstein's name and posted it on several Web sites. Things got really crazy when Berti disparaged her alleged boyfriend's ex-wife. "As soon as the staff figured out the code, they blocked them [and cut off the feed]," "Big Brother 3" executive producer Arnold Shapiro told a newspaper. "They didn't know what they were hearing until they interpreted it. As soon as they interpreted it, it was off," he said. Calls to Silverstein's office were not returned yesterday. A CBS official said the network was not concerned about a slander law suit since Berti spoke in code and did not actually say Silverstein's name. Berti was arrested on DUI charges last spring while she was in Los Angeles auditioning for "Big Brother 3." But she's missed two arraignment dates because of her participation on the show. |
Maryann | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:04 pm     I wish to heck someone would explain the "snap" code to me! |
Serena | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:08 pm     you spell out a word using words for the consonants (e.g. banana for "B") and finger snaps for the vowels one snap for "a", two for "e", 3-i, 4-o, 5-u. so Chiara would be cookie/ hamster / snap,snap,snap / snap / roddy/ snap moronic code, especially listening to her doing it |
Ryanc2002 | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:08 pm     For a consinant you say a word that starts with the letter. For vowels you snap once for A, twice for E, etc. |
Max | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:10 pm     Geez, she might as well have used pig-latin or the variation we used to do as kids where you put "ab" after every consonant (so Chiara becomes Cabhabiaraba). We used to drive our parents nuts talking like that! LOL |
Sadlady12 | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:12 pm     The Snap Code: consonants are determined by a word(ex.Yellow=Y) vowels are determined by snaps: a= 1 snap e= 2 snaps i= 3 snaps o= 4 snaps u= 5 snaps so you would say as an example: Celery, 4 snaps, Dogs, 2 snaps to say the word Code!! I hope this is helpful, this is the way I understood it. |
Gritss | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:13 pm     The bad thing about this story is what AS said. I suspect you can read into his statement that the people with the FOTH button in front of them have new marching orders. And it's not good news for LF viewers. |
Mystery | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:15 pm     I'm not so sure that CBS is right to just dismiss the possibility of a lawsuit (though maybe they just said that they weren't worried). It was easy to figure out the code. I'm trying to decide if she had spoken in French, would CBS not be worried? Or Max's pig-latin variation? It seems to me that if, as CBS says, the dispositive issue is that she spoke in code, then the test would be how easily people listening could understand what she was saying. I'm a lawyer but I work in tax law, not libel or slander, so I'm just not sure. |
Goddessatlaw | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:16 pm     Gawd, Max - I haven't heard anyone speak Ubba-dubby since the mid seventies. I thought it was close to being a dead language. The sick thing is, I still remember how to speak it. Maybe we should sign up as code talkers. |
Max | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:17 pm     Mystery, the use of the phrase "dispositive issue" gave your profession away long before your typed text saying, "I'm a lawyer..." |
Max | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:18 pm     Well, Goddess, it was in the '60s when we used to talk like that! Maybe it IS a dead language! LOL |
Scorpiomoon | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:19 pm     Well, maybe now Chaira and Roddy might together--now that Chiara is most likely minus one of two boyfriends on the outside. |
Crossfire | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:21 pm     I tend to agree. Speaking in code, or using encrypted communications might normally be considered a secure form of communication, but having said that, we usually have some of the best mathematicians on in the world working on them, with peer review. Encoded communications, immediately preceded by the encryption key, which itself was unencrypted, and retransmitted many times due to poor reception, would hardly pass any reasonable test of encoded communications even if the CBS folk are even slower on the uptake than the houseguest, as remarkable as that sounds. |
Mystery | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:21 pm     Max, you made me laugh out loud! (Note to self: ixnay on the egalay anguagelay.....) That reminds me of a Green Acres episode where someone talked about Oliver speaking "that lawyer Latin." |
Maryann | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:25 pm     Thank you SO much! I don't think that I could do all that very quickly! But then again, I guess that's all that they have to talk about. Mango (snap) Rainbow- Yellow- (snap) Nathan- Nathan (BY GEORGE I THINK I"VE GOT IT!!) |
Mystery | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:27 pm     "...retransmitted many times due to poor reception," you guys are killing me! That is TOO funny. |
Snee | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:30 pm     it was 70's ubby dubby for me, with more 'ubs' and less 'abs'. i also like the one where you put 'the guh' in every syllable. snee = sn'the'g'ee. whether there's a lawsuit or not, i think chiara has done lost herself a boyfriend... |
Aerojunki | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:43 pm     The thing is..she explained the code over the internet..toooo funny! As soon as she told the girls how to do it, me & my husband rolled on the floor laughing! Can't say what we said..it's a secret! DOG/snap, snap, snap, snap, snap/Mango/Bed/ Bed/snap, snap, snap/Terry/Couch/House (Grin) |
Aerojunki | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:44 pm     God..I hope I got that right! LOL! |
Maryann | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:47 pm     Aerojunki: YOU DID! I GOT IT!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!! ROFL! |
Aerojunki | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:55 pm     Maryann..Thank god..I'd hate to feel like a ... DOG/snap, snap, snap, snap, snap/Mango/Bed/ Bed/snap, snap, snap/Terry/Couch/House LOL!!! |
Missy2 | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:58 pm     I feel bad for Chi she is going to have some crapola to deal with when she gets out... |
Aerojunki | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:03 pm     And *Who's Fault*?! |
Bastable | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:03 pm     Sounds to me like she'd be healthier if she dealt with it, Missy2. Drunk driving is very serious. But I take your point... I just see it as a good thing for her in the long run. |
Wendydarling | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:11 pm     Have you see a picture of Larry Silverstein? Not what you'd expect. Google on his name. Gives this entire story a new flavor. |
Scorpiomoon | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:14 pm     Wendy: People look a whole lot better when they are worth millions.
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Mystery | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:15 pm     It's Roger that she was involved with though, right? |
Wendydarling | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:17 pm     Mystery: Sorry, my fault. You're right. Scorpiomoon: True, so true. :D |
Tabbyking | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:17 pm     i can't believe arnie says 'using code' doesn't count because she didn't say anything outloud! in other words, he is backing chiara's code. was there a 'casting couch' in the interview room? |
Scorpiomoon | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:18 pm     Mystery: Duh! You're right! It's Roger. Larry is the 70 year-old father. |
Mystery | Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:29 pm     Well, Scorpio is still right, money does make a difference in how some people look! I'm not sure that CBS really believes what they said about the code. And casting couch, my gosh, I don't even want to THINK about that! |
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