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 Post subject: Jose Conseco speaks
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:10 pm 
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Jose was paid by the University of Florida studen'ts speaker's bureau (Accent) to speak to the students last night.

http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050414canseco.php

I didn't make it to the speech, but it sounds like some of the questions he was asked were pretty funny. Particularly the one about ball shrinkage.

I just love the editing on the article. My favorite line by the writer is...
The Florida Alligator wrote:
Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco, who was paid $35,000 by Accent, UF’s speakers bureau, to speak Wednesday night, read his whole pre-prepared speech without making eye contact with a crowd of more than 1,000.

So is a pre-prepared speech a speech that's already written before you sit down to write it? I'm thinking someone's not going to be making a great grade on their journalism class this semester. ;-)


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 Post subject: Jose Conseco speaks
PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:04 am 
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THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS????

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 Post subject: Jose Conseco speaks
PostPosted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:19 am 
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Juice ain't cheap....


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 Post subject: Jose Conseco speaks
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That is pretty exorbitant. Didn't Bill Clinton get something like fifty grand for speaking? And he was the damned PRESIDENT!

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 Post subject: Jose Conseco speaks
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I forget how much they paid Clinton, Bush Sr., Michael Moore, the midget porn star they had a couple weeks ago or any of the others to speak. It's probably somewhere in the Alligator archives.


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