"She later took a Greyhound bus home."

"the irrepressible Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis"

Is that the right use of the word "irrepressible"? I thought that word meant someone who was fun-loving and couldn't be put down. Joe Francis has to be one of the worst human beings on earth. I know the LA Times can't write "the chunk of human sewerage who founded Girls Gone Wild"....but still. They make the guy sound like Fonzie.

 

It basically just means he can't be repressed, or restrained. And since he keeps doing what he does, I'd say it fits.

 

Isn't Joe Francis still in jail?
Seems like he had some off the wall legal problem with bail that kept him in the pokey.

 

Out of Jail last week. Back home in (Cali) I think. He's still awaiting some tax fraud charges I think.

And the girl who made it all possible. Spitzer's madam out on bail. She's a man, baby.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03192008/news/regionalnews/bail_for_queen_of_tarts_102552.htm

 

A long Greyhound trip is a great way to make new friends.

 

I thought the line about a dark cloud and irony was pretty good.

 

Reminds me of the old Emo Phillips line: "My mom always said there was one weirdo on a bus. I never saw him."

 

He's a brilliant business man though. He's made a lot of money off the chain.

 

Yeah, it takes a real genius to figure out that men like to look at topless 18-21 year olds. Wow, what foresight.
I still can't figure out how he hasn't been sued out of existance or shot by someone's boyfriend/father/brother. Finding young women who see themselves as having no value other than as sex objects, then getting them blind drunk and talking them into taking off their tops...that's not much of a way to earn a living. Matter of fact, that's pretty much on the same level as being a pimp.

 

I'm not arguing that he's a worthless, degrading man for exploiting these women as sex objects, but he found a niche in the market and took advantage of it. He's business savvy, but not much else.

 

It can't be long before, as Jules said in Pulp Fiction, he kinda develops a speech impediment.

 

Heroin dealers are business savvy too. Just giving the people what they want, I guess.

This LA Times profile of him by Claire Hoffman remains one of the best pieces of entertainment journalism I've read in years.

http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,0,5620406.story