Hooters.com :: News & Events — this somehow got in under the radar. Gates and Buffet eat for free at Hooters! Aric Mackey, who sent me a shot of Gates with the Hooters girls was challenged to find out if the pic was legit. It was!
Press release from the Hooters website:
While they surely don’t need the help, the world’s two richest men can now eat for free at Hooters restaurants. On Friday October 20, 2006 Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were presented with Hooters VIP Cards at a Hooters Restaurant in Kansas City, Kansas. The Cards entitle the gentlemen, who currently rank numbers 1 and 2 on the list of worlds richest, to free food at any of the chains 435 locations in 46 states and 20 countries exclusive of tip and alcohol.
The pair made a stop at the Hooters Restaurant along with members of the Board of Directors for Berkshire Hathaway. The visit came at the request of Buffet so the group could pose for a Christmas Card photo with the chain’s beautiful Hooters girls. “It was an honor to have these powerful individuals dine in my store” said Jason Fetters General manager of the Hooters located at 1712 Village West Parkway, Kansas City, Kansas. “Clearly these guys can go anywhere they want to. The fact that they picked Hooters hopefully says something about the strength of our brand.”
I don’t get the title. All I see are hot unintelligent girls.
All I see is Bill looking in the wrong direction…
Is he shy?
Why aren’t a few girls hugging him? Pic lacking warmth.
Bill….”He-he…I’m gonna score! He-he….he-he….Yeah! BOOOOIIIINNNNGG!”
Waste of perfectly good Hooters.
Doh…Don’t tell the girls my company name is Microsoft!
#1 – While odds are you are right… There is no data to indicate that all those girls are demonstrably not intelligent.
I’m not sure why Hooter’s gave these guys VIP cards, and don’t really care enough to read the article, although I seem to care enough to write a long rambling post about it, but maybe that’s because I’m bored at work, but I have to assume its to honor these two great men’s philanthropic work. They certainly deserve any and all honors bestowed upon them. All hail these great Americans.
But no one should worry that the two richest guys on Earth are eating for free while the rest of us slobs have to pay for overpriced wings and to ogle 19 year old tits. Do you think these guys are gonna carry those cards in their wallets? Do you think they are frequent customers of Hooters? It’s possible, likely even, that Gates and Buffet will never step foot in a Hooters.
The expression on Buffett’s face says, “Heh, heh…what a day!”
Bill’s expression says, “Oh boy…my wife is gonna kill me when she sees this pic!”
Free food, but not free alcohol. What’s the point of having a VIP card?
I’ve always had a special place in what I’m pleased to refer to as my “heart” for those bozos throughout History who have made it a point to give things away to the very last people who need charity, while blithely ignoring their fellow man who actually is in need.
“To he who hath it shall be given; from he who hath not it shall be taken away.”
So what’s new?
#9 – who do you think doesn’t need education and health care?
I love America.
Ok, they are the worlds top two richest men. As a result, they are called powerful, because rich and powerful are both good qualities.
Why not call them holy as well?
OFTLO
You’re not paying attention, lad. I’m referring to giving a couple of fucking multibillionaires free food – when there’re plenty of Americans who don’t know where there next meal is coming from.
HTF does that reference education or healthcare?
Sorry Lauren… I had what you said reversed.
But like I said, the VIP cards are just a gesture… You know these guys are not regularly chowing at Hooters.
And education and healthcare are what the Gates Foundation seems to specialize in… as I’m sure you know.
Yes. I also know that the amount that he “gives” is carefully calculated down to the last dollar in order to minimize his tax burden to the maximum extent possible. Were there no tax incentives for charitable giving, I seriously doubt he’d be anywhere near so “generous”. I don’t like the greedy dweeb bastard, no secret there.
#9, the Ghoti: It’s worse than you think. Warren made a decision to give away all (well, 85%) of his money. Who do you think he decided to give it to?
Give up?
Answer: Bill
And that photo is an inspiration to all the young, straight & lesbian geeks from all over the world.
Well Damnit!
Had I never read the article I’d never have know that stopping by was Warren Buffet’s idea and that I was horribly wrong in post #6.
I’ve always hated that jack-ass Buffet! And I’d said so in every post I’ve ever made.
B. Dog –
Wellll, shit! I mean, the man’s no fool, he knows you can’t trust poor people with money – turn your back on ’em for a second and the vicious bastards’ll go waste it on stuff they claim to “need.” Can’t have that! No, best give it to someone who’ll make sure it doesn’t accidentally get “redistributed.”
i’d like to know who the other two old farts are in that pic.
WOOT TITS!!!
Two old farts? You mean 3.
Ah cripes…what do I know. I’m just a cranky geek.
#9, Lauren,
I’ve always had a special place in what I’m pleased to refer to as my “heart” for those bozos throughout History who have made it a point to give things away to the very last people who need charity…
Although you later clarified your remark, you are still a fool. This wasn’t charity, it is promotion by Hooters. They let the world know that their fine dining experience is worthy of the two richest people in the world.
As for your “heart”, you have one ? 😉
#21,
geeze, get a life. It the people like you that allow Hooters to charge extra for their grease.
I see, Fusebox, that’s you’ve extracted your head from your ass long enough to gift us with your perceptive and wise presence.
Lemme see if I can somehow pierce the cloud of dimness that surrounds you long enough to get a coherent concept into your skull.
It isn’t about charity. It isn’t about 2 fucking promotional cards. It’s about the idea of GIVING to THE LEAST NEEDY, like peasants without enough to fill their own bellies giving their best livestock to the king. It’s a feudal gesture. It unconsciously reinforces the vague idea in the public’s collective “mind” that these people are kings, that they are better than us, and should be given things they don’t need by people who have little, in order to curry favor with their superior personages. It is stupid, it is counterproductive, it is representative of and supportive of an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian attitude that promotes the sort of two-class, peasant-and-royalty heirarchial mindset that the Republican Party has been trying to reshape America into since Ronnie Ray-Guns.
Publicly promoting democratic, egalitarian American values demands something more along the lines of making a PR gesture of giving to the LEAST FORTUNATE members of society – and publicly encouraging the INCONCEIVABLY WEALTHY to DO LIKEWISE. Not encouraging the treating of these people like some kind of gods to be supplicated with offerings from the rabble.
You’re such a fuckin’ dimwit, I swear.
“geeze, get a life. It the people like you that allow Hooters to charge extra for their grease.”
…and to top it off, you have something against boobs, two of the most commonplace, beneficial and enjoyable commodities on Earth.
Whatta wanker.
(Pssst! The spelling is “Jeez” – or “Jeeze”, if you insist on the silent and therefore superfluous ‘e’ at the end. It’s a corruption of the expletive usage of the name “Jesus”. That means there’s no fucking “G” in it. Pinhead.)
Two old guys in a sea of beautiful women…I’m at once titillated (tee hee) and repulsed. I don’t know where to light.
WAITRESS: Bill, like OMG! My Windows like gives me some boxes in the screen and stuff, and it’s like, annoying. I used to have this like OMG the cutest little Bonzai monkey and now it won’t load. It was so like cuuuute!
BILL: You need to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate. Did you know it has a built in firewall?
a pair of boobs get free lunch with boobs. Great. No news in my book.
Well, Fusoid, I see you’ve been working on your ad hominem and you’re showing a wee bit of improvement, but your attempts still fall flat; they still have no music, no zing to ’em. Totally uninspired, and unoriginal. I see you’re still lamely riffing on my original cracks to you and pedro about being off your meds. Why not try something new, instead of merely parroting others’ barbs?
You’ve been a Boy Scout too long; you never developed any verbal jousting skills. So until you do so, I’m afraid you’re condemned to making yourself look even lamer than you already are…