OVER THE EDGE-NEWSPAPER. SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

MOST PRETENTIOUS PEOPLE

while living in multiple Rick James, Bitch!” his character, seeing as of the doors as a major
properties. he’s a blond, blue-eyed | influence, so it’s not

Not pretentious because: snowboarder living in suprising that as the

Even we’re sick of hearing Whistler. Of course, the lead singer of Creed, his
48. Bono that, and we’re not Dave — character is also a ghost. pretention shone through

Chappelle. Bitch. ' as he spread his arms out in

concert to make it appear as
if he were being crucified.
He became so insufferable
that the rest of the band
wanted out, even though
they weren’t famous on
their own. He has made a
sex tape with four groupies
and Kid Rock, who calls
Stapp an “idiot.” Recently,
he has been recording —
religious albums and
picking fights in bars.

46. Paul McCartney -

a de

_ Pelé- Beloved soccer star,
yes. Greatest of all time,
maybe. But please, stop
trotting out every time a
player does something you
don’t approve of and tell

_ them they’re destroying the
game.

Yeah, he wants to save the
starvin’ children. But he
also wants to buy thousand
dollar bottles of wine, own
mansions (that’s plural)
bigger then any of us would
ever dream of, a fleet of
luxury cars and bum money
for his charity organization

44. Chris Martin of
Coldplay. He will fix you.

Contrary to popular belief
it was McCartney, not
Yoko Ono, who broke

up the Beatles. More
recently, while protesting

Francis Fukuyama

Most pretentious moment: —
As Brazil’s Extraordinary

Minister fe Pelé i
inister for Sport, Pelé off of Bill Gates. Oh, the seal hunt in Canada
worked constantly on Ee McCartney had a televised
reducing corruption cae e debate with Newfoundland
within Brazilian soccer. ih povcrnm a e aa premier Danny Williams.
He resigned from the post Aiiiavansiainiaamariiaiti When Williams told him

charity organizations, he
went ahead and shifted the
money he would contribute
to accounts in Amsterdam,
rather than pay taxes.

after being accused of
involvement in a bribery
scandal.

to come to his province

to see the people whose
livelihood he’s taking away,
McCartney replied he was
already there. He was in
Prince Edward Island.

‘Most famous for claiming 39. Martha Stewart

that, following the What did we learn from
- disintegration of the USSR, | Stewart’s stint in jail?

mankind was at the endof | Apparently, absence does

é history and nothing much not make the heart grow
45. Ross Rebagliati of interest would happen fonder.
again. Then, he urged

Presidents Clinton and
Bush to overthrow Sadaam
Hussein. When Bush did,
Fukuyama said he didn’t
like the way it was done
and now spends much of
his time criticizing Bush.

49. Dr. David Suzuki

42. Scott Stapp

His message about 47 Dave Chappelle he

anti-consumerism and After becoming the highest- — AQ) ‘Christina Acuilera
environmentalism is a paid actor on television, he | He was a Canadian ee a ENG Once ~ ar as
good one. It just seems that decided that his job was posterboy after winning lira aid tl
some students don’t like too hard and went to South __ the first-ever Olympic ose a > “ : ps nt y
the fact that he delivers Africa. He has also walked _—_ gold medal for snow- ~ ‘ore a . ee :
this message through off the stage after audience _ boarding, despite his pot i ga neal d
mass-produced books members shouted out, “I’m smoking. Now, he’s suing aed Yaa ROC ECO

as the soul singers you
HEY YOU! voting forthe 50 most pretentious people took place over atwo-week the CT V-produced show attempt to emulate? And did
period, and was open to all students at UNBC. The results were then weighted and Whistler, claiming that ; ’
consulted in the making of the final list. This list is purely philisophical, in that it has fitwoh ‘ we really need a song about
no scientific method behind it in any way, shape or form. Itshould be noted that just. ON OF Its characters 1s a how important you are to
because someone is pretentious is does not mean they are bad— many of the figures clear misappropriation of A F : ;

on this list contribute greatly to the world. But then again, a lot of them don't, either, He cites Jim Morrison your fans?