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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Tom, have you been Cruising Fark?
Bang! Fark.com's Drew Curtis was in the line of fire and he got peppered pretty good. The insults rained like small lead pellets, and they may have come from none other than Tom Cruise.

While the grammatically-impaired emailer responsible for the missive below didn't signal or indicate or announce himself, "I'm pretty positive this is him," Drew tells Boing Boing, The I.P. belongs to Paramount Studios, and he's writing about a story we linked about him and Katie splitting up."

Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:29:52 -0500 (EST)
From: fark off farkers
To: drew@fark.com, mike@fark.com, meg@fark.com
Subject: FARK : Error report from fark off farkers (204.110.112.2)

The following was submitted:

Login : (not logged in) (0)
Name : fark off farkers
Type : (error) Report some error message
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I can't believe that people actually read and or believe this bull shit that is posted on fark.com. This is the first time I have been to fark.com and definatly the last. Considering I am witness to a lot of shit that goes on in hollywood, its hard to post some complete bull shit rumor say about tom cruise and katie holmes breaking up when they are sitting in front of you acting completely normal and sane. You guys must have small penis's since you have to make up shit for people to notice you. Hate to be with you in bed. Dumb shits! You may think I am, at least Im getting rich off being honest and not lieing to everyone in the fucking world.
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Remote IP: 204.110.112.2
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Experts familiar with the actor's prosaic style definatly agree -- it could be him. And in a gesture of solidarity with Fark.com, I am -- no lieing! -- at this very moment wearing a CafePress wifebeater that reads, "Silly tom cruise, all bloggers have small penis's."

Link to the Fark.com thread that started it all, "Amusing: Tom and Katie to split. Next time make sure she's OT III before implanting a thetan."

Update: Defamer analyzifies:

We’d love to believe that Cruise spends his downtime lost in vanity Google session and firing off unhinged missives about the health of his relationship [Ed.note: Tom: call us!], but we have a hard time picturing the Scientology Information Officers letting him anywhere near a computer, for fear the rest of his life would be consumed by a crusade to wipe out the unchecked negativity of the internets. And with so many people on the Paramount lot (where his production company is housed) whose jobs are dependent on Cruise’s career, the message really could’ve come from anyone. So as long as we’re taking guesses as to the angry writer with the disabled spell-checker, we might as well finger a far more likely suspect: Paramount Emperor Brad Grey. It all makes sense now, doesn’t it?

Reader comment: craniac says:

Someone from the same IP address as the Tom Cruise email to Fark.com has been busy on Wikipedia trying to make the college of William and Mary look good. Link