Oprah Winfrey's towering ego.

Guess I hit a nerve.

Maybe your ass is smaller than mine. And maybe you're four feet tall, for all I know.

No, you're just Poster #113 to play the "I got nothin', so you're old!" card. Thought you had more imagination than that.

I'm watching movies in another tab, and plotting stories and blog posts in my head.

I never said 'old,' but as insults go, 'old' is on about the same intellectual level as 'stupid,' so you started it.

Yeah, well, I'm still holding down a chair at work for another 20 minutes, and I imagine movies to be the point where someone starts giving a shit what I do on the internet here.

$38k for a hand bag!

The shop assistant should be fired on general principle for letting such a big potential sale slip away!

"Said," no. Implied - as in the only people who take water aerobics are the elderly and those with severe arthritis - yes.

So you've already reverted to "I know you are, but what am I?" People's Exhibit A: Oprah brings out teh Stupid in the Red Room.

Keep going.

Aww, is your tiny, well-toned arse sore because someone intruded on your territory of "make plausibly deniable implications and spend 20 pages refusing to admit it"?

1. Although essentially everyone in the U.S. would recognize Oprah, you can't take it for granted that people everywhere will.

2. That said, the salesperson was at best stupid and at worst racist for assuming that a customer/black woman couldn't afford an item. If the store is going to operate at that level of snobbery, they should probably be by-appointment only.

3. It is not the end of the world that Oprah was unable to buy a handbag that costs more than the typical worker in this country nets in a year.

Let me first start with...FUCK Oprah!!

OK, now I feel better. In my experience, rich folks don't always dress up and many that I met through work dressed a bit shabbily.

I don't feel the least bit bad for Oprah. All these celebs look for some shit to talk about. Oh poor me. I was molested as a child. I was bullied. I was fat when I was a teenager. My mother didn't love me. Blah, blah blah!!

She let that shit happen. I would have asked and if not serviced properly, I would have pulled out that super titanium credit card and just laid it on the counter and let the sales girl see the name. I would have then snapped my fingers and told her 'chop, chop!'

Oh and as far as recognizing celebs. In my experience, white folks are not the best at spotting black celebs.

They look and say 'Isn't that Stevie Wonder over there?' Where? 'The guy reading the newspaper. I could swear that is Stevie Wonder! I'm gonna ask him for an autograph!'

This has happened to me and my family on several occasions.

I swear to god Wesley Snipes pumped my gas the other day.

I always ask all the Stevie Wonders of they've seen the movie "Ray", ask them what they thought, if it was true to their real life, and tell them they just haven't LIVED until they've seen it in 3-D.

Well that certainly explains a lot.

Isn't he in jail with OJ and Lauren Hill at the moment? It must have been Will Smith at the gas station.

Wesley is out of prison on work release. So it may well have been him.

This.

When I see rich folks like Oprah, I think they should just give me some money. Just lemme hold a little sumpthin'. I'd like to let them know that they could change my life for the better if they gave me their watch or one of those earnings or one of them rings. Hook me up!! You won't even feel it. It'd be like nuthin' to you. You got it like that!!!!!

Hey, she's supposed to be this big humanitarian that likes making it rain.

And, you don't have to be a starving Ethiopian to get her money, those people she gave cars to were largely white upper middle class folks.

Hey, she wants to be a human cash machine, I say hold her to her standards.

Did she try her television persona? "HELLLLOOOO SWIZERLAAAAAND" "Show me the expensive HANDBAGS and I might give away a few CARRRRS!!!!"

Guilty. You do all kind of look alike to us.

If my wife bought a 38,000 dollar purse it better have 37,980 dollars in it!

One thing I am good at is spotting celebs in the city. I have seen many on the streets. I can usually tell that they just want to do their thing without people bothering them. If I catch their eye I just smile and give a little head nod. It says I see you...cool...enjoy your day.

Except the one time I took pics of Leonardo DiCaprio. He caught me and was like...sheesh

Oprah is just a big distraction in this story.

Salespeople have no business being judgmental and rude to any customer. It really doesn't matter that she was Oprah Winfrey...no one deserves that kind of crap.

People ought not be buying ridiculously overpriced bags period.
You could feed a starving village for the price of that meaningless junk.
Oprah of all people, with her Jesus complex, ought to be ashamed.
I wouldn't bat an eye if that whole "industry", went kaput.

She mentioned racism, therefore she must be mocked!

There is no racism anymore. As a white male, I decree it to be so. Because I, of course, would know.

Clyde or CaptainX will be along soon to call you a racist for such talk.

I would probably be able to distinguish Oprah Winfrey from a cat. Probably.

I don't recognize famous people very well. If I'm watching a movie and I get a "big star" vibe from someone, I can make some good guesses about who it might be, I might even say "Oh that's so-and-so", but out in public there aren't many I'd recognize. Patrick Stewart, probably Bill Clinton, probably Whoopi Goldberg if she's rocking the 'do, maybe John Wayne if he were still alive. Maybe a few ballplayers like Ozzie Smith or Kurt Warner, if they haven't aged beyond recognition. That's about it.

I don't condone racism, but it's kind of hard to muster much outrage over it keeping a billionaire from buying a $38,000 handbag.

Oh, the humanity!