NY Post finally gets Chiara story!
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Pbandj

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 02:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
I wish to heck someone would explain the "snap" code to me!

Serena

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
"...retransmitted many times due to poor reception," you guys are killing me! That is TOO funny.

Snee

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
God..I hope I got that right! LOL!

Maryann

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aerojunki:
YOU DID!
I GOT IT!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!
ROFL!

Aerojunki

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 03:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
And *Who's Fault*?!

Bastable

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Wendy: People look a whole lot better when they are worth millions. :)

Mystery

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's Roger that she was involved with though, right?

Wendydarling

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mystery: Sorry, my fault. You're right.

Scorpiomoon: True, so true. :D

Tabbyking

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Mystery: Duh! You're right! It's Roger. Larry is the 70 year-old father.

Mystery

Thursday, July 25, 2002 - 04:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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!