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It’s funny — and fairly sad — how much recency factors into all things internet. It doesn’t really matter who you are or what you did in the past so much as what you did yesterday and what people are most interested in today.
Weird planet.
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I’m posting this story about Wilt Chamberlain’s former home in Bel-Air once again being for sale for two main reasons. (via @NBAFanHouse)
1. I generally try to steer clear of mocking the random titillating* stories that crop up from time to time throughout the NBA because that crap is really none of our business. But Wilt was so overwhelming forthright and boastful about his forays with the females that I feel it’s fair game to excerpt the paragraph below. Plus, ya know, he’s dead.
2. LATimes.com honestly ran the below photo of Wilt’s house with the following caption that still has not been changed yet, although I presume it will be shortly:
The former home of Wilt Chamberlain, a six-bedroom house in Bel Air that was built in 1971, has six bedrooms. (Sotheby’s / October 12)
Had the ad wizards at the Times thrown in an “ironically” after “1971,” I would have have bet money that Brian Spaeth had recently added “copy editorer” to his resume.
But getting back to the sexy aspect of this whole thing for a minute, here is some other interesting bedroom-centric information contained in the story.
Many of what Chamberlain once called his home’s “kinky details” are gone, among them a mirrored ceiling in the master bedroom that retracted to reveal open sky and a Cleopatra-inspired sunken bathtub that sat at the foot of the bed. A downstairs “playroom,” where Chamberlain had a wall-to-wall water bed floor, is just another room, sans water bed. And the moat swimming pool, though still accessible through an opening in the living room floor, has been divided into three smaller bodies, a lap pool built into the middle.
For those of you scoring at home, that means:
Rings
Bill Russell: 11
Stilt Face: 2
Water Bed Floors
Bill Russell: 0
Stilt Face: 1
Moats
Bill Russell: 0
Stilt Face: 1
Who’s the real winner? Check and mate.
* I Googled the word “tittillating” looking for its Dictionary.com entry because I couldn’t figure out how many Ts and Ls it had, and my search returned these basically safe-for-work “image results for tittillating.” If you look really closely, I believe that is scantilly clothed Margaret Cho on the far right … further proving my theory that Google is seriously, seriously slipping.
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