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So, she says it's time she goes
But wanted to be sure I know
She hopes we can be friends
I think, yeah, I guess we can say I
But didn't think to ask her why
She blocked her eyes and drew the curtains
With knots I've got yet to untie...

What if I were Romeo in black jeans
What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth
Maybe she's just looking for
Someone to dance with

See, it was just too soon to tell
And looking for some parallel
Can be an endless game
We said goodbye before hello
My secrets she will never know
And if I dig a hole to China
I'll catch the first junk to Soho

What if I were Romeo in black jeans
What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth
Maybe she's just looking for
Someone to dance with

Sometime from now you'll bow to pressure
Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees
I'm between the poles and the equator
Don't send no private investigator to find me please
'less he speaks Chinese
And can dance like Astaire overseas

What if I were Romeo in black jeans
What if I was Heathcliff, it's no myth
Maybe she's just looking for
Someone to dance with

You've never heard of Facebook?

Or, maybe private investigators?

I call shenanigans.

I once mis-dialed a phone number and got the private line of a "lawyer". His practice tracked me down by caller-id and sent me a bill for $75 consultation plus $110 private investigation fee plus tax.

Luckily, a cousin is a minor partner in a large law firm. One letter and I never heard from the shyster again, but DAMN that made me mad.

Its finally going to be Lupus, and everyones got it...

Wilson is going to get all suspicious bout House and Amber. They'll probably play that tension up through the show until house finally has an epiphany at the end and realizes he didn't. (I just don't think they'd make house that huge of a sleazeball, I think it'd hurt the show's ratings). Also House's concussion gets worse and complicates his treatment of Amber.

Sidereel.com picked up on a somewhat interesting story regarding House -
"According to TV Guide's Michael Ausiello:

"As I understand it, producers are introducing a new male character for a multi-episode arc and, assuming the actor they find really pops in the role, he may be spun off into his own show. But there's a twist, and it's a big one: Per multiple sources, this newbie is not a doctor, but rather a private investigator!""

If they're thinking of having a socially inept, detail oriented detective I suggest they tune into Monk.

Tasers are illegal to private citizens in Michigan unless they are a "registered bail agent, private investigator, or properly trained aircraft pilot or crew" (that's straight from the TASER website)... and after seeing several of the videos posted here on the fatal side effects of the TASER, I think this is prudent. However, after there were several rapes in my city last spring I did initially ask my father to get me a taser, but that's not possible, so I've settled with the highest concentration pepper spray available. Both self defense mechanisms are of course secondary to a good pair of shoes you can run in, and I never leave the house alone wearing a pair I cannot do that in... call me paranoid, but I think that the women who wear high heels every day only decrease their chances of getting themselves out of a potentially dangerous situation... not to mention destroying their back and feet, but whatever, yet another case of the cultural imprinting of a beauty ideal I guess.

As for glasses, I personally do not think I necessarily look better without them, and believe me, I would never date a guy who didn't appreciate me in them. But, my own empirical evidence suggests that the general public feels otherwise (pervasive cultural attitude I guess), as I almost never get a second look with them on. But whatever, its all personal preference, as I myself prefer a guy with glasses.

First of all, your proposition is not double blind.

Secondly, your assumption with your argument is that the mere possibility of this girl being helped by somebody on this site watching the video, no matter how small, is enough to make this worth it. The reason why BL spoke about the probability of her being found due to VS's involvement is that it fits into a cost-benefit analysis.

I'll ask you this: if any single slim chance of the girl being helped is enough to make upvoting this sift worth it, then what about outside of the VS community? There's also the possibility of somebody you know having seen her. Are you telling this story to every person you know? How about every stranger you meet? People at work? Every extended relative?

Even better yet, every dollar could count, to hire private investigators or search teams or whatever. Why wouldn't Beckham, who is not exactly a poor guy, donate half his savings to help this girl? That could significantly boost the chance of her being found.

The reason for this comes back to the cost-benefit analysis, which is based on the probability of each thing leading to her being found. We make these kind of judgements every day, for donations to charities, for giving aid to third world countries, and many other things. And in this case, there's such a negligible probability for this video to have any benefit in this situation that I'm fine with downvoting it.

And finally I downvoted this mostly because this is just Beckham whoring himself to the media, trying to get some good press off the misfortune of a family. I stand by my decision, and I'll continue to downvote videos like this one as they come to VideoSift.

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RIPTIDE
(1984-1986)

The RIPTIDE is a white boat with orange trim, formerly the "Mary Aberdeen." She was cursed; six people and one poodle died on her. Nick Ryder bought her from Tiny Tommy's in 1981. She is docked at Slip 7, Pier 56, in King Harbor, next to Mama Joe's tourist ship CONTESSA. (Mama Joe, played by Anne Francis, has an entirely female crew, all young, all in bikinis; the boys ogle them but Mama Joe does her best to keep the girls away from them.) Living on the RIPTIDE are three private investigators: Nick Ryder, Cody Allen, and Dr. Murray Bozinsky. For the traditional $200/day plus expenses, they will solve your case/protect you. They provide security for the pier in exchange for their docking there. They drive a red convertible with orange flames painted on sides, license plate IEAZ219, and the jimmy. The EBBTIDE is a small powerboat, owned by Cody.

Riptide (1984-86) - TV action series created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo, this is about two Vietnam buddies who become private investigators. The show co-starred Joe Penny as Nick, the pilot of "Screaming Mimi," and old Sikorsky S-58T helicopter. Painted pink with a garish mouth on front, it was shabby, unreliable US Army surplus.